Bio:
Giovanni Russonello is a journalist and music critic who covers jazz and improvised music as well as electoral politics for the New York Times. He’s also the founding editor of CapitalBop, a publication and presenting organization serving the Washington, D.C. jazz scene.
His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, NPR Music, JazzTimes, The FADER, DownBeat and the Investigative Reporting Workshop, among others. For more than two years he hosted “On the Margin,” a weekly books show on WPFW-FM in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history, with a focus on African-American history.