A J Dehany
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Contemporary art, music, literature

londonjazznews.com/?s=DehanyI am a current regular arts correspondent for FAD Magazine and LondonJazz. I have contributed reviews and interviews of contemporary jazz to Jazzwise, and other writing about music to the East End Review, 0 Word Reviews, The Noise It Makes, essays on literature to Goodreads, and on contemporary art for After Nyne, POSTmatter, ArtFund, ArtLyst, Life As A Human and Fig-2 Loyalty Card. I was selected for Jazzwise's Write Stuff writing development programme. Recently I have completed commissioned work for Beats & Pieces Big Band, POSTmatter, El Ultimo Grito, HEAD-Genève, LondonJazz and After Nyne.

Selected work:
Collected reviews and interviews for LondonJazz 
Collected reviews for FAD Magazine
Interview with John Etheridge, Soft Machine (Jazzwise)
World Service Project review (Jazzwise)
Portraying a nation: Germany 1919-1933 (Otto Dix & August Sander) (After Nyne)
FUCK YOU WHERES MY SUGER? (FAD Magazine)
The Songs of Scott Walker 1967-70 (LondonJazz)
The Wire Salon: An audience with Val Wilmer (Bebop Spoken Here)
Giacometti piece in print edition of After Nyne, the art lover's magazine
Collective X + Out-Spoken (LondonJazz)
Sound Unbound Festival Round-up (LondonJazz)
Kind of Blue / Sketches of Spain (LondonJazz)
Brimstone and Treacle (West End Wilma)
A Certain Kind of Light: Light In Art Over Six Decades (After Nyne)
Meaning in improvised music: Mark Holub, Liran Donan, Tom Herbert, Chris Batchelor (LondonJazz)
The Glass Menagerie (West End Wilma)
Mothership - Celebrating the Role of the Mother Artist (Life As A Human)
Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra (Kind of Jazz)
Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning (LondonJazz)
Howling under the blue moon (POSTmatter)
The Shock of the Scene - Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms (After Nyne)
Horizons Deferred (Press release and exhibition catalogue text for El Ultimo Grito)
Dan Flavin, Ikon Gallery (POSTmatter)
Chris Ingham Quartet - The Music of Dudley Moore (LondonJazz)
John Cage's Indeterminacy (LondonJazz)
Jason Moran - Wind  (The Jazz Breakfast)
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) (East End Review)
"The one about the Chinese lapdancer" (People's Republic Of Mortimer)
How to write everything by David Quantick (Books Of The Year 2014)
Blogging fig-2: 50 shows in 50 weeks, (ArtFund)
Fig-2 at Bicester Village, (Fig-2 Loyalty Card)
Week 33: El Ultimo Grito, (Fig-2 Loyalty Card)
Art Fund Curator Talk #2, Roland Barthes 'To The Seminar' (Fig-2 Loyalty Card)
An unwritten essay about an unwritten book: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D. T. Max

Fig-2 Loyalty Card

I wrote about every week of Fig-2 at the ICA in which a new art project was installed each week in 2015
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The Noise It Makes

Bootleg recordings from the cutting edge of contemporary live music (2011-present).
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How to Write Everything

Essay/review about the state of writing and publishing.
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