Recently Published Interviews
Alyn Shipton, author of Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway
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Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
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Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
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Gary Giddins, author of Jazz and Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema
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Jerry Jazz Musician Interviews
Reverend Ralph David Abernathy's daughter Donzaleigh Abernathy on being a child of the civil rights movement |
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk biographer John Kruth |
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Low Down: junk, jazz, and other fairy tales from childhood author Amy Albany |
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Neil Lanctot, author of Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution |
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Bessie Smith biographer Chris Albertson |
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Critic and writer Gene Lees |
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Jack Kerouac collaborator David Amram |
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Sideman playwright Warren Leight |
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Jazz Modernism author Alfred Appel |
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Hip: The History author John Leland |
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Chet Baker widow Carol Baker |
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Photographer Herman Leonard |
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New Yorker critic Whitney Balliett |
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Peter Levinson on Nelson Riddle and Tommy Dorsey |
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Graham Lock and David Murray, co-editors of Thriving on a Riff: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film and The Hearing Eye: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art |
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Pianist Kenny Barron |
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Blue Note Records president Bruce Lundvall Jazz in the Modern World roundtable |
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Cultural historian Martha Bayles Roundtable on jazz criticism |
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The Burning author Tim Madigan |
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Joshua Berrett, author of Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz |
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Fletcher Henderson biographer Jeffrey Magee |
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Anthony Bianco, author of Ghosts of 42nd Street: A History of America's Most Infamous Block |
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New York Times and Stork Club writer Ralph Blumenthal |
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They Marched Into Sunlight author David Maraniss Maraniss on Roberto Clemente |
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Arc of Justice author Kevin Boyle |
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Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink author David Margolick |
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Rosa Parks biographer Douglas Brinkley |
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Jazz singer Kitty Margolis in a Roundtable discussion with Stanley Crouch and Gerald Early |
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Tim Brooks, author of Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890 - 1919 |
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War author Karl Marlantes |
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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans author Thomas Brothers |
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Diane McWhorter |
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Madam C.J. Walker biographer A'lelia Bundles |
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Billy Tipton biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook |
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Ralph Ellison's literary executor John Callahan |
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Charles Mingus' widow Sue Mingus |
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New York Mayor John Lindsay biographer Vincent Cannato |
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Drummer T.S. Monk |
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Roy Eldridge biographer John Chilton |
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Evan Horne Mysteries writer Bill Moody |
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Clifford Brown biographer Nick Catalano |
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Saxophonist James Moody remembers Dizzy Gillespie, with Nat Hentoff |
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Free Speech Movement historian Robert Cohen |
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Musician, writer Max Morath |
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Dinah Washington biographer Nadine Cohodas |
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Jazz historian, Living With Jazz author Dan Morgenstern |
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Fats Domino biographer Rick Coleman |
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World War II historian David Colley on the integration of the U.S. Military |
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Writer Albert Murray |
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Gil Evans biographer Stephanie Stein Crease |
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Seriously Funny author Gerald Nachman |
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Cultural critic Stanley Crouch on Ralph Ellison Roundtable on jazz criticism Roundtable with Kitty Margolis and Gerald Early On his book Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz |
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Sonny Rollins biographer Eric Nisenson |
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Lester Young biographer Douglas Daniels |
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Naxos Jazz President Mike Nock |
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Critic, writer Francis Davis |
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Paul Bowles biographer Cherie Nutting |
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Bayard Rustin biographer John D'Emilio |
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Chet Baker biographer Jeroen de Valk |
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Living with Music editor Robert O'Meally |
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Django Reinhardt biographer Michael Dregni |
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Negro League baseball legend Buck O'Neil |
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Cultural critic Gerald Early Roundtable with Stanley Crouch and Kitty Margolis |
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Jelly Roll Morton biographer Phil Pastras |
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Bobby Darin biographer David Evanier |
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Robert Johnson: Lost and Found author Barry Lee Pearson |
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Elizabeth Pepin, author of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era |
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"Up From New Orleans: Life Before, During, and After Katrina" – a conversation with transplanted New Orleans musicians Devin Phillips and Mark DiFlorio |
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Jazz poet Sascha Feinstein |
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Ralph Ellison in America author Horace Porter |
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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World author Joshua Prager |
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The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music author Dunstan Prial |
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Chasin' The Bird : The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker author Brian Priestley |
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Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad |
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John Coltrane biographer John Fraim |
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Paul Desmond biographer Doug Ramsey |
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Stardust Melodies author Will Friedwald |
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New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff Jazz in the Modern World roundtable |
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Saxophonist Joshua Redman Jazz in the Modern World roundtable |
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Chet Baker biographer James Gavin On Lena Horne |
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Ishmael Reed on Oakland, California |
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W.C. Handy biographer David Robertson |
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Masters of Jazz Saxophone editor Dave Gelly |
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Richard Wright biographer Hazel Rowley |
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John Gennari, author of Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and its Critics |
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Reverend C.L. Franklin biographer Nick Salvatore |
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Conversations with Gary Giddins, the country's most eminent jazz critic (on Bing Crosby, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, others) |
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Chairman Lisa Schiff |
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Ken Burns' Jazz advisor Matt Glaser |
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Conductor, saxophonist, writer Loren Schoenberg Roundtable on jazz criticism |
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Cab Calloway biographer Alyn Shipton |
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Beat poet Gary Glazner |
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Bill Evans biographer Keith Shadwick |
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Jazz Photographer William Gottlieb |
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Jackie Robinson biographer Scott Simon |
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Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters author Ben Green |
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A Well Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports author Brad Snyder |
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Billie Holiday historian Farah Griffin |
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Lenny Bruce biographer David Skover |
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Sam Cooke biographer Peter Guralnick |
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Poet Michael Harper on John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison |
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Comedian Tom Smothers |
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Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop -- A History author Chuck Haddix |
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Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth editor Sam Hamill |
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Jazz Foundation President Herb Storfer |
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In Search of the Blues author Marybeth Hamilton |
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Critic, writer Nat Hentoff With James Moody, remembering Dizzy Gillespie |
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Hoagy Carmichael biographer Richard Sudhalter |
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Musician/composer Mark Isham |
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Miles Davis biographer John Szwed |
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Ralph Ellison biographer Lawrence Jackson |
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Jazz photographer Lee Tanner |
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Journalist Terry Teachout on Louis Armstrong |
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Martin Torgoff, author of Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945 - 2000 |
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Larry Tye, author of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend |
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NY Giants pitching legend Larry Jansen |
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Pianist McCoy Tyner |
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Author Ashley Kahn |
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Bassist LeRoy Vinnegar |
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Satchmo Blows Up the World author Penny Von Eschen |
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Geoffrey Ward, author of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson |
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Thomas Webber, author of Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy |
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters editor Carla Kaplan |
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Newport Jazz Festival founder George Wein |
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Thelonious Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley |
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Fire in a Canebrake author Laura Wexler |
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Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music author Arthur Kempton |
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Josephine Baker biographer Ean Wood |
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Jazz on the River author William Howland Kenney |
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Emily Yellin, author of Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II |
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Ralph Ellison documentarian Avon Kirkland |
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Mitchell and Ruff biographer William Zinsser |
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Dixie Hummingbirds biographer Jerry Zolten |
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