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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Mark Stryker
- City: Detroit, Michigan
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Bloomington, Indiana
Current News
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What's Up?
On Mark Stryker's JAZZ FROM DETROIT
"Deeply researched and expertly rendered, Mark Stryker's Jazz from Detroit has provided a diligent and insightful window into every aspect of how Detroit came to be one of the major centers of modern American musical research. This is an important and highly entertaining document that will stand as a definitive testament to the musical culture of Detroit."
— Pat Metheny
“There is no other city like Detroit: the musicians, the vibe, the people. Thank you, Mark Stryker, for Jazz from Detroit.”
— Sonny Rollins
My Life
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Bio:
Mark Stryker is an author and award-winning arts reporter and critic based in Detroit. His first book, Jazz from Detroit (University of Michigan Press), was named "Jazz Book of Year" in the 2019 Jazz Times Critics Poll. Stryker covered jazz, classical music and the visual arts for the Detroit Free Press for 21 years from 1995-2016. His many national prizes include two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music writing about bassist Ron Carter and composer Elliott Carter, as well as several reporting awards for coverage of the Detroit Institute of Arts and City of Detroit bankruptcy. Stryker's second book, Destiny: 100 Years of Music, Magic, and Community at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, was published in fall 2019 by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He is a 2020 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.
Born in Bloomington, Ind., Stryker earned a bachelor’s degree in American history from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in journalism from Indiana University. He also worked as a jazz saxophonist before turning to a career in journalism. He worked for the South Bend Tribune and Dayton Daily News, before arriving at the Detroit Free Press. He collects records, vintage hats, drinks the finest Old-World wine he can afford.
My Media
- Website: http://jazzfromdetroit.com
- Blog: http://jazzfromdetroit.com/blog
- Twitter: Mark_Stryker
- Instagram: mstryker63
- Book Purchases: http://www.press.umich.edu/4454129/jazz_from_detroit
- Book Purchases 2: http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Detroit-Mark-Stryker/dp/0472074261/
Contact Information
- Management/Booking: For media inquiries please contact: Matt Merewitz, Fully Altered Media at matt@fullyaltered.com or 914-566-6368; or Lanell White, University of Michigan Press, lejames@umich.edu or 734-936-0388.
Clips
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes...
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word...
Limned in cadenced song...
The Recôncavo is a smile inside an irony wrapped in a conundrum.
► The matrix originated as an extension of a record shop opened to divulge the little known music of the people of the Recôncavo and sertão of Bahia, Brazil (per this interview with David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio and hence a sugarcane cutter as our logo), along with other great Brazilian music.
► But in order to provide pathways from around the world to these largely unknown artists, the matrix has to do likewise for all artists everywhere.
