JUMP Team
We’ve shut down production. But these are the folks who ran this project:
founder
G.W. Miller III – journalismgeorge@gmail.com
managing editors
Beth Ann Downey – badowney47@gmail.com
Chris Malo – christopher.malo@gmail.com
Brendan Menapace – menapace.brendan@gmail.com
photo editor
Shan Cerrone – csc@cerronephoto.com
contributors
SEBASTIAN ADE, NAVEED AHSAN, LAUREN ARUTE, KYLE BAGENSTOSE, SOFIYA BALLIN, RACHEL BARRISH, TIMOTHY BECKER, VINCE BELLINO, KEVIN BROSKY, BRITTNEY BOWERS, MICHAEL BUCHER, CARY CARR, SERI CHAO, GABI CHEPURNY, JUMAH CHAGUAN, ASHLEY COLEMAN, ANEESAH COLEY, KEVIN COOK, DARRAGH DANDURAND, CHESNEY DAVIS, RACHEL DEL SORDO, GRACE DICKINSON, KELSEY DOENGES, MATTHEW EMMERICH, CHRIS FASCENELLI, JESSICA FLYNN, CHIP FRENETTE, JEFF FUSCO, JESSICA GRIFFIN, ASHLEY HALL, DAN HALMA, TYLER HORST, KURT HUNTE, GRETA IVERSON, MORGAN JAMES, SEAN KANE, EVAN KAUCHER, RICK KAUFFMAN, DONTE KIRBY, DERRICK KROM, GABRIELLE LAVIN, MINA LEE, MATTHEW LEISTER, KIM MAIALETTI, ERIN MARHEFKA, MEGAN MATUZAK, KATE MCCANN, TERESA McCULLOUGH, JASON MELCHER, NIESHA MILLER, BRENDAN MENAPACE, ANDREW MENDELSON, TIM MULHERN, CAROLINE NEWTON, BRANDEE NICHOLS, ELIZABETH PRICE, MARGO REED, MARIE ALYSE RODRIGUEZ, EMILY SCOTT, DIANA SHALENKOVA, CHAD SIMS, BRIANA SPAUSE, KEVIN STAIRIKER, KIRSTEN STAMN, THAD SUZENSKI, BRITTANY THOMAS, RYAN TREITEL, JONATHAN VAN DINE, BRYAN WALLACE, JARED WHALEN, BRIAN WILENSKY, BREE WOOD
JUMP: The Philly Music Project 
Matt Leister consistently captures quality pictures that evoke the emotion of the performers and his articles that complete the event are well written, keenly descriptive of the band, music, performers, and crowd leaving you with a sense that you were there. He is a great asset to your publication. I was shocked not to see his name among your contributors. His talent should be used by Jump Philly more often.
Sorry. We’re a low key operation, run by volunteers. We had not updated this staff list since the mid-1990s or so. He’s there now.
I appreciate and I am very impressed by your quick response to my comment. I checked, and sure enough, he was listed among your CONTRIBUTORS. Thank you for taking your followers seriously. I do hope you use him more often, and perhaps for some larger venues as well. His writing is genuine and very good. Plus, his photography captures the essence of the performers and the show. I put his name in your Search Bar first, then go thru the rest of the publication. Jump Philly is great.
Thank you for hearing us,
Debbie
BTW, for all of you reading this, I neglected to re-mention “his” name so you can Search him out too. It is Matthew Leister.
Debbie
Jason Miller’s statement that, “If you tend to have good taste in beer, you tend to have good taste in music,” makes it sound like, “If your not drinking good beer while listening to music, you will not appreciate its quality,” is just wrong! Some of the greatest discoveries of great music were made during the Classical Period (Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart) and as far as Classical Rock, Philadelphia has “the” man called the “Father of Rock and Roll” who discovered some and interviewed nearly all of the greatest bands in Rock History and that iis T Morgan, at WMGK. He is releasing a book soon. He would be a great interview for your magazine, and why it is much harder today for new bands to break into the business.
I would like to use something from from your page and the article shows it is by Geo.. does Geo have a full name? I am trying to do my MLA format bibliography.
Please email us at jumpphilly@gmail.com with any questions.
Hey there,
I’m a writer in Philadelphia who has focused on music writing for the past five years. I started in Phoenix with zines and DIY blogs before quickly finding work writing for more popular entertainment papers/websites, like the Phoenix New Times and Arena.com. I’ve done everything from show reviews to album reviews and interviews. Let me know if you are looking for more writers as I’m curious about not just writing about music in general but the Philly music community as well.