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Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with tenor saxophonist David Murray at Monday Night Jazz in Hartford's Bushnell Park

Nicholas Payton and Bill Milkowski at the Fall 2021 Exit Zero Jazz Festival.

Guitarist Oz Noy and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski outside the Capital Theatre in Port Chester, NY before the Shakti show on Aug. 19, 2023.

Shakti percussionist Selvaganesh backstage with jazz journalist Bill Milkowski following an Aug. 19, 2023 performance at The Capital Theatre in Port Chester, NY.

Bassist-singer-songwriter Esperanza Spalding with music writer Bill Milkowski after her set with a host of musicians in tribute to the late pianist Geri Allen on Aug. 5, 2017.

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith with music journalist Bill Milkowski

Guitarist-composer Elliott Sharp, music journalist Bill Milkowski and vocalist Eric Mingus at Hartford's Real Art Ways.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski and vibraphonist-composer-painter Matthias Lupri in his Provincetown art gallery on Sept. 16, 2021.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage with trumpeter-composer-bandleader Terence Blanchard at the Fall 2021 Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis at the 2011 Nice Jazz Festival.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with bassist-singer Will Lee at the 2019 "The Nearness of You" concert in memory of Michael Brecker.

Guitarist Fareed Haque and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage at the "Celebration of Pat Martino" concert at the Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point, NJ on Nov. 3, 2022.

Guitarist Dave Stryker and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski at the "Celebration of Pat Martino" at the Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point, NJ on Nov. 3, 2022.

Bassist-guitarist Joe Morris with jazz journalist Bill Milkowski at Real Art Ways on March 5, 2022.

Guitar god John McLaughlin and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage after a performance by The 4th Dimension Band on Nov. 2017.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage with guitar great John McLaughlin after a Shakti concert at The Capital Theatre in Port Chester, NY on Aug. 19, 2023.

Guitar great Al Di Meola backstage with jazz journalist Bill Milkowski after a Sept. 14, 2022 performance at Hartford's Infinity Hall.

Drummer Dennis Chambers and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage at Hartford's Infinity Hall on June 24, 2022.

Guitarist Marc Ribot and jazz writer Bill Milkowski backstage at the 2016 Newport Jazz Festival.

Bill Milkowski presents Bill Frisell with the JJA's Guitarist of the Year Award for 2019 at the Village Vanguard.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with poet-DJ-activist John Sinclair in New Orleans.

Jazz guitar great Pat Martino and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski in 2011.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with pianist Jamie Saft at Real Art Ways in Hartford on March 4, 2023.

Kurt Elling and Bill Milkowski at the 2018 Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May.

Drummer Jonathan Barber and Downbeat critic Bill Milkowski at Parkville Sounds in Hartford, 2022.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with jazz guitar great John Scofield at Race Street Live in Holyoke, MA on Apr. 29, 2022.

Master slide guitarist and jazz writer Bill Milkowski in West Hartford, CT.

Writer Bill Milkowski with alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw at the Fall 2021 Exit Zero Jazz Festival.

Greg Tate and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski after a set by Tate's Burnt Sugar Arkestra at Real Art Ways on Sept. 26, 2021.

Drummer Bill Stewart and jazz writer Bill Milkowski at the Fall 2021 Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May.

Music writer Bill Milkowski with fellow scribe, guitarist and leader of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra Greg Tate at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT on Sept. 29, 2018.

Writers David Fricke and Bill Milkowski with guitarist Mike Stern and moderator Ashley Kahn on a panel discussion about Miles Davis and the electric guitar at the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival.

Jazz writer Bill Milkowski with drummer Tommy Campbell backstage at B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square, Sept. 16, 2015.

Jazz writer Bill Milkowski backstage with pianist Jason Moran at the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival.

Music journalist Bill Milkowski with members of the Pat Bianchi Group at the 2021 Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ.

Music writer Bill Milkowski hanging at the after party with guitarists Leni Stern, Jimmy Herring and Joel Harrison following a John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension Band concert at Town Hall on Oct. 3, 2017.

Guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg with music journalist Bill Milkowski at Hartford's Monday Night Jazz series in Bushnell Park on July 16, 2018.

Music writer Bill Milkowski with great guitarists Jimmy Bruno, Russell Malone and Charlie Apicella at a tribute to the late, legendary guitarist Pat Martino in 2022.

Writers Bill Milkowski and Ashley Kahn at Rizzoli's bookstore in Manhattan.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with keyboardist Mike LeDonne and eminent jazz critic Ira Gitler at the 2006 Detroit Jazz Festival.

Jazz journalists Bill Milkowski, Gary Giddins and Will Friedwald at the Players Club in Gramery Park for the 2015 New York Hot Jazz Festival.

Record producer Jeff Levenson, singer Tierney Sutton and jazz journalist Bill Milkowski at the Blue Note in NYC, 2018.

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Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with WBGO's Michael Bourne at the 2015 Montreal Jazz Festival.

Jazz writer Bill Milkowski and record producer Jeff Levenson at Jeff's 70th birthday party at the Strong Rope Brewery in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on April 12, 2022.

Fellow jazz scribes Bill Milkowski and Bob Blumenthal lounging on the Cape in 2018.

Jazz writer Bill Milkowski with Exit Zero Jazz Festival director Michael Kline on festival grounds in Cape May, NJ, October 2021.

Jazz writer Bill Milkowski with Pat Martino manager Joe Donofrio at the Fall 2021 edition of the Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ.

Jazz writer Bill Milkowski with David Demsey, Coordinator of Jazz Studies and Curator of the Living Jazz Archives at William Paterson University, at a Michael Brecker tribute at Birdland Theater in NYC on Sept. 8, 2022.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage at Real Art Ways in Hartford with drummer Nasheet Waits and his son August.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski with tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby at Real Art Ways in Hartford on May 7, 2023.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage with saxophonist Branford Marsalis at the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival.

Cuban saxophonist-composer-bandleader Paquito D'Rivera with jazz journalist Bill Milkowski at the Fall 2021 Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski bookended by drummers Kenwood Dennard and Jeff "Tain" Watts outside the Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point, NJ during "A Celebration of Pat Martino" on Nov. 3, 2022.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski backstage with guitarist Rodney Jones during "A Celebration of Pat Martino" at the Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point, NJ, on Nov. 4, 2022.

Jazz journalist Bill Milkowski and slide guitarist David Tronzo in Kennebunk, Maine on Aug. 4, 2021.

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