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Mark Stryker

Detroit
As seen in: USA Today, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Hartford Courant, KRCC-FM (Colorado Springs, CO), Oregon Public Broadcasting, Taiwan News, Tablet Magazine, Wisconsin Public Radio and
Author, Jazz from Detroit. Writer/coproducer, The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit doc. Former Detroit Free Press arts reporter & classical music/jazz critic
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Coltrane's Shadow - Tablet Magazine

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By Mark Stryker
| Tablet Magazine Verified
John Coltrane played his final live performances as a sideman on tour with Miles Davis in Europe in spring 1960. Returning home, the 33-year-old tenor and soprano saxophonist organized his first full-time working band, launching an odyssey that would soon elevate him into the inner circle of jazz innovators. At the same moment, a 31-year-old Coltrane-obsessed tenor saxophonist on the Philadelphia-South New Jersey scene named Frank Tiberi purchased a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder. Lucky us.
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Funk Brother No. 1

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By Mark Stryker
| Tablet Magazine Verified
One day in 1962, a little-known 32-year-old songwriter and entrepreneur named Berry Gordy stood in front of a small band of musicians in the cramped recording studio in the basement at 2648 West Grand Blvd.
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Classical Critic Found Own Way Into Craft Via Creative Portal Of Jazz

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By Nancy Malitz Verified, Mark Stryker
| Classical Voice North America
Mark Stryker: Jazz from Detroit. University of Michigan Press, 2023. 358 pages. BOOK REVIEW — In the mid-1990s, as I was forming an internet department at The Detroit News after serving as the paper’s classical music critic, I became aware of a new hire down the street at the Detroit Free Press. Mark Stryker, the new Free Press arts reporter and music critic, would pay close attention to the city’s jazz scene, in addition to classical music, from the start.
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