Site news: Please welcome (again)...Terry Perkins!

Following up on our roundtable discussion from a couple of weeks ago, it's a real pleasure for me to be able to announce that one of the panelists, St. Louis freelance writer Terry Perkins, will be contributing occasional posts to StLJN in the future.

Of course, many of you know Terry's byline through his writings about jazz (and other music, too) for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Down Beat, All About Jazz.com, Jazz Standards.com and many other publications and Web sites. For StLJN, he'll be a sort of at-large correspondent, writing reviews of live shows and CDs, interviews, feature articles, commentaries, or whatever else he feels like doing,.pretty much whenever he feels like doing it and can fit it into his schedule. Terry has a lot of experience writing about jazz, and I'm delighted that he's actually volunteered (with, I hasten to add, absolutely no coercion, blackmail or hostage-taking on my part) to share some of his expertise and insight with StLJN's readers from time to time.

You can read some of Terry's work in the March 2006 issue of Down Beat, which features his interview with pianist Cyrus Chestnut. (The link is to an excerpt of several stories from the current issue; DB makes only a small fraction of their content available on their Web site). Also, be sure to check out his recent interview with saxophonist Lou Donaldson for All About Jazz.com, and his Gateway Grooves column for AAJ, which offers a monthly overview of jazz events in St. Louis. Terry's March column also includes a mention of and link to StLJN, for which I am also most grateful, both to him and to his editors at AAJ. Thanks, fellas!

(Edited 3/14/06 to fix an incoherent sentence.)