1. Bill Milkowski was born on September 26,1954 and is an American jazz critic, journalist, and biographer.
11 Facts About Bill Milkowski
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Bill Milkowski has written for DownBeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, The Absolute Sound, Paste, Jazzthing and Guitar Club.
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Bill Milkowski is the author of a biography of bassist Jaco Pastorius, a biography of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, an annotated history of jive music, a collection of interviews.
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In 2018, Milkowski was part of a "Jazz Democracy" panel discussion at the United Nations for International Jazz Day.
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Bill Milkowski received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Journalists Association in 2011.
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Bill Milkowski received the Bruce Lundvall Award from the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2015.
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Bill Milkowski combined his interests in music and journalism when he began working as freelance music critic at The Milwaukee Journal in 1977.
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Bill Milkowski co-published the city's alternative bi-weekly newspaper Cityside from December 1977 to May 1979 and served as editor of the monthly Milwaukee magazine from 1979 to 1980.
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Bill Milkowski moved to New York in September 1980 after accepting a position as managing editor for the Long Island-based weekly entertainment publication Good Times, where he worked for two years.
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Bill Milkowski wrote Legends of Jazz in 2011 and that same year co-wrote Here And Now: The Autobiography of Pat Martino.
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Bill Milkowski was a consultant on the 2014 documentary film JACO, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, and appeared on panel discussions with its premiere at film festivals in New York City, Washington DC, Cape May, New Jersey, Montreal, and Buenos Aires.