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<p><b>Bill Milkowski</b> (* <a href="26._September" title="26. September">26. September</a> <a href="1954" title="1954">1954</a> in <a href="Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee">Milwaukee</a>, <a href="Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) ist ein US-amerikanischer <a href="Journalist" title="Journalist">Journalist</a>, <a href="Musikproduzent" title="Musikproduzent">Musikproduzent</a>, Gitarrist, Hörfunkmoderator und <a href="Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a>-Autor. Er gilt nicht zuletzt durch seine <a href="Jaco_Pastorius" title="Jaco Pastorius">Jaco-Pastorius</a>-Biografie als einer der kompetentesten Autoren über den <a href="Jazzrock" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazzrock">Jazzrock</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Milkowski begann mit zwölf Jahren Gitarre zu spielen und beschäftigte sich mit Rock- und Jazzgitarristen. Während seines Journalistik-Studiums an der <a href="University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Milwaukee" title="University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee">University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee</a>, wo er 1977 den Bachelor of Arts erwarb, war er 1975 als Herausgeber der Campus-Zeitung und 1976 als Mitarbeiter des <i>Milwaukee Journal</i> tätig. Er wurde dann Mitbegründer des zweiwöchentlich erscheinenden alternativen <a href="Stadtmagazin" title="Stadtmagazin">Stadtmagazins</a> <i>Cityside</i>, das nach den Vorbildern des <a href="Chicago_Reader" title="Chicago Reader">Chicago Reader</a> und der <a href="The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">Village Voice</a> gestaltet war und von 1977 bis 1979 in Milwaukee erschien. Nach einer kurzen Phase beim <i>Milwaukee Magazine</i> zog er 1980 nach <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, um Geschäftsführer des Magazins <i>Good Times</i> zu werden. Nach zwei Jahren, in denen er dort über Musik, Theater und Film schrieb, begann er 1982 als freischaffender Autor zu arbeiten.
</p><p>In den folgenden Jahren schrieb Milkowski regelmäßig für die Magazine <i><a href="JazzTimes" title="JazzTimes">JazzTimes</a>, Modern Drummer, Guitar Player, Bass Player, Jazziz, Audio, Pulse Guitar Club, <a href="Jazzthing" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazzthing">Jazzthing</a></i> und das Magazin <i>Fi</i>, daneben zahlreiche <a href="Liner_Notes" class="mw-redirect" title="Liner Notes">Liner Notes</a> für Alben für Musiker und Bands wie <a href="Joe_Henderson" title="Joe Henderson">Joe Henderson</a> (<i><a href="So_Near%2C_So_Far_(Musings_for_Miles)" title="So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)">So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)</a></i>), <a href="Bennie_Wallace" title="Bennie Wallace">Bennie Wallace</a> (<i><a href="The_Art_of_the_Saxophone" title="The Art of the Saxophone">The Art of the Saxophone</a></i>), <a href="Weather_Report" title="Weather Report">Weather Report</a>, <a href="Yellowjackets" title="Yellowjackets">Yellowjackets</a>, <a href="Al_Di_Meola" title="Al Di Meola">Al Di Meola</a>, <a href="Michael_Formanek" title="Michael Formanek">Michael Formanek</a>, <a href="Ivo_Perelman" title="Ivo Perelman">Ivo Perelman</a>, <a href="John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a>, <a href="Joe_Pass" title="Joe Pass">Joe Pass</a>, <a href="Hank_Crawford" title="Hank Crawford">Hank Crawford</a>, <a href="Sylvie_Courvoisier" title="Sylvie Courvoisier">Sylvie Courvoisier</a> oder <a href="Gato_Barbieri" title="Gato Barbieri">Gato Barbieri</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-discogs_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-discogs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Er ist auch Autor der Bücher <i>JACO: The Extraordinary Life And Times Of Jaco Pastorius</i> (Miller Freeman Books, 1995) und <i>Rockers, Jazzbos & Visionaries.</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>A 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Als Produzent war er u. a. für <a href="Pat_Martino" title="Pat Martino">Pat Martino</a> (<i>All Sides Now</i>, <a href="Blue_Note_Records" title="Blue Note Records">Blue Note</a> 1998), Phil de Gruy (<i>Innuendo Out The Other</i> (NYC Records, 1995)) sowie für die Produktionen <i>Come Together: A Guitar Tribute to <a href="The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a></i> (NYC Records, 1993 mit <a href="Mike_Mainieri" title="Mike Mainieri">Mike Mainieri</a>), <i>Who Loves You: A Tribute To Jaco Pastorius</i> (JVC Records, 2001)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> und <i>World Christmas</i> (Metro Blue, 1996) tätig.
</p><p>1991/92 wirkte er als Co-Moderator an der <a href="Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a>-Sendung <i>The Other Half</i> beim Radiosender <a href="WNYE" title="WNYE">WNYE</a> mit. Nach einer überstandenen Krebserkrankung lebte er von 1993 bis 1996 in <a href="New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, wo er als Moderator des Senders WWOZ sein Programm <i>Milkman's Matinee</i> arbeitete. Er lebt seit seiner Rückkehr nach New York im Stadtteil <a href="Washington_Heights_(New_York_City)" title="Washington Heights (New York City)">Washington Heights</a>. Als Gitarrist wirkte er 1996 an dem Album <i>Valley Of Christmas</i> von <a href="Andrei_Codrescu" title="Andrei Codrescu">Andrei Codrescu</a> und Mark Bingham mit.<sup id="cite_ref-discogs_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-discogs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>2011 wurde er für sein Lebenswerk mit dem <a href="Liste_der_JJA-Awards-Sieger_der_2010er_Jahre#Preis_für_das_Lebenswerk_im_Jazz-Journalismus_(Jazz_Journalism_Lifetime_Achievement)" title="Liste der JJA-Awards-Sieger der 2010er Jahre">JJA Jazz Awards</a> geehrt.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2015: Bruce Lundvall Award<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
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<ul><li><i>Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius</i> (1st ed.). Backbeat Books, 1995. ISBN 0-87930-361-1.</li>
<li><i>Rockers, Jazzbos and Visionaries</i>. Billboard Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0823078332.</li>
<li><i>Swing It! An Annotated History of Jive</i>. Watson-Guptill Publications 2001-03 ISBN 0-8230-7671-7.</li>
<li><i>Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker</i>. Backbeat Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1493053766.</li></ul>
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<div class="sisterproject" style="margin:0.1em 0 0 0;"><div class="noresize noviewer" style="display:inline-block; line-height:10px; min-width:1.6em; text-align:center;" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Commons"></span></span></div><b><span class=""><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bill_Milkowski?uselang=de"><span lang="en">Commons</span>: Bill Milkowski</a></span></b> – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien</div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000080985"><span>Bill Milkowski</span></a> bei <a href="AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> (englisch)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/Bill+Milkowski">Bill Milkowski</a> bei <a href="Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Eine Sammlung von Interviews u. a. mit <a href="Keith_Richards" title="Keith Richards">Keith Richards</a>, <a href="Stevie_Ray_Vaughan" title="Stevie Ray Vaughan">Stevie Ray Vaughan</a>, <a href="Carlos_Santana" title="Carlos Santana">Carlos Santana</a>, <a href="Dr._John" title="Dr. John">Dr. John</a>, <a href="Branford_Marsalis" title="Branford Marsalis">Branford</a> und <a href="Wynton_Marsalis" title="Wynton Marsalis">Wynton Marsalis</a>, <a href="David_Murray_(Jazzmusiker)" title="David Murray (Jazzmusiker)">David Murray</a>, <a href="John_McLaughlin_(Musiker)" title="John McLaughlin (Musiker)">John McLaughlin</a>, <a href="Jimmy_Smith" title="Jimmy Smith">Jimmy Smith</a>, <a href="Brian_Eno" title="Brian Eno">Brian Eno</a>, <a href="John_Zorn" title="John Zorn">John Zorn</a>, <a href="Milford_Graves" title="Milford Graves">Milford Graves</a> und <a href="Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190817055221/https://www.jjajazzawards.org/p/2011-nominees.html"><i>2011 Nominees & Winners.</i></a> In: <i>JJA Jazz Awards 2019.</i> Archiviert vom <span class="dewiki-iconexternal"><a class="external text" href="https://redirecter.toolforge.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jjajazzawards.org%2Fp%2F2011-nominees.html">Original</a></span> (nicht mehr online verfügbar) am <span style="white-space:nowrap;">17. August 2019</span><span>;</span><span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 17. August 2019</span>.</span> <small class="archiv-bot"><span class="wp_boppel noviewer" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="i"></span></span></span> <b>Info:</b> Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.</small><span style="display:none"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://IABotmemento.invalid/https://www.jjajazzawards.org/p/2011-nominees.html">@1</a></span><span style="display:none"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jjajazzawards.org/p/2011-nominees.html">@2</a></span><span style="display:none">Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.jjajazzawards.org</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Milkowski&rft.title=2011+Nominees+%26+Winners&rft.description=2011+Nominees+%26+Winners&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20190817055221%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.jjajazzawards.org%2Fp%2F2011-nominees.html&rft.source=https://www.jjajazzawards.org/p/2011-nominees.html"> </span></span>
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