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Recently Published Interviews

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound author Ben Ratliff

Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad

Jazz critic Gary Giddins on his new collection of essays, Natural Selection

Stanley Crouch, author of Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz

Fats Domino biographer Rick Coleman

Jerry Jazz Musician Interviews

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