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RADIO PLAY: Eugene Marlow’s original composition “Flight II” performed by pianist ArcoIris Sandoval on Marlow’s “Obrigado Brasil” (MEII Enterprises 2016) is spun on WBGO’s “Latin Jazz Cruise,” hosted by Grammy-nominated drummer Bobby Sanabria. WBGO is the most listened to jazz radio station on the planet.

The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) publishes The Jazz Omnibus: 21st Century Photos and Writings (Cymbal Press). The works of 90 JJA members are represented in this volume of approximately 600 pages (with two dozen b&w images). It is available in hardcover, paperback and e-book formats, and sold online (typically. through Amazon). Dr. Eugene Marlow’s essay on jazz pianist great Bill Evans is among those chosen for this volume.

Eugene Marlow, MBA, Ph.D. begins his 73rd semester (37th year) teaching courses in media and culture at Baruch College (City University of New York). Dr. Marlow was on fellowship leave in the spring 2024 semester to work on a “Jazz in Arabic Culture” feature-length documentary.

MARLOW PRIZE 2023-2024 WINNER: David Milch, Director of the MA Program in Arts Administration at Baruch College (City University of New York), informed student Mary Schwab she was the 2023-2024 recipient of the Marlow Prize for her consultancy Building Membership for a Copyright Management Organization: A Consultancy for Artists Rights Society. The honor, including a check for $500, will be presented at a ceremony in early September 2024. Elena Freijeurdaneta was selected for an Honorable Mention for her consultancy Exodus on Odyssey: Touring Strategies for Start-Up Theatre Companies.

NEW ALBUM RELEASE: MEII Enterprises releases “Me, Alone,” a nine-track album of original compositions for solo piano performed by Eugene Marlow. These tracks were recorded by the composer in 1971 in his Merced, California apartment following a four-year stint in the United States Air Force.

“ZIKKARON/KRISTALLNACHT” AWARD: Eugene Marlow’s documentary short “Zikkaron/Kristallnacht: A Family Story” is an official selection semi-finalist of the CLIMAX Festival Internacional de Cinema Independiente 2024 in the “Best Achievement in Documentary Editing & Sound” category. There were 537 submissions to this film festival.

NEW MARLOWSPHERE BLOG: Eugene Marlow posts a blog about his High School of Performing Arts classmate Charlie Smalls, composer and lyricist of the 1975 Broadway show “The Wiz”.

RADIO PLAY: Eugene Marlow’s free jazz-styled arrangement of “Adon Olam” with vocalist Rachel Kara Perez, performed by Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble, is spun on WBGO’s “Latin Jazz Cruise,” hosted by Grammy-nominated drummer Bobby Sanabria. WBGO is the most listened to jazz radio station on the planet.

MARLOW PRESENTATION: Dr. Marlow gives a short talk on his “Jazz International” research project (documentaries and books) PechaKucha style for staff, professors, and students at Baruch College’s (City University of New York) Third Annual Cross-College Faculty Research Symposium.

NEW MARLOWSPHERE BLOG: Marlow’s newest blog is “In Recovery from the Pandemic–APAP 2024 Faces: Familiar, New & Absent”.

JAZZ IN CHINA DOCUMENTARY SHOWING: Eugene Marlow’s award-winning, feature-length documentary “Jazz in China” is an “official selection” of the “Third Annual (2024) Spotlight on Academics Film Festival.” It is shown via ResearchTV.ca. This is the 12th film festival to officially select the documentary. So far, it is the recipient of an “Award of Excellence” from the 2022 Depth of Field International Film Festival and was the first place winner of the 2022 American Insight “Free Speech Film Festival.”

“BOARDED AND BROKEN” DOCUMENTARY SHOWING: The New Plaza Cinema (scroll down a bit) shows “Boarded & Broken,” a documentary short photographic essay by Glenda F. Hydler with a music underscore composed by Dr. Eugene Marlow (who also produced and directed the work). The photographs represent some of the businesses that covered up during and after the vandalism around New York City in the spring of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Temporary structures were created in the name of “security.” They were boarded and broken, but not forgotten. The short film festival is organized by filmmaker Michael Jacobsohn. New Plaza Cinema is located at 35 West 67th Street in Manhattan, New York. Starts at 7:30 p.m. General seating: $15; Seniors: $12.

Dr. Marlow begins a one-semester fellowship leave from Baruch College to work on his nascent new documentary “Jazz in Arabic Culture”. He returns to teach courses in media and culture at Baruch College on August 28, 2024.