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TODAY'S ARTISTS


Winard Harper


Winard Harper

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Drummer Winard Harper is passionate about jazz. "This music is powerful," he says. "It can do a lot of good for people. If they'd spend some time each day listening to it, we would see many changes in the world."



Come Into the Light

Come Into the Light





The EDGE


In Memory Of

Ted Kennedy,

1922 - 2009

Ted Kennedy on Republicans and the minimum wage

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Don Hewitt,

1922 - 2009

Don Hewitt on the first televised Presidential Debate, 1960

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Les Paul,

1915 - 2009

The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

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Walter Cronkite,

1916 - 2009

Walter Cronkite announces death of JFK


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Think About It


"To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven."

- Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869 - 1935



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Today's Gift Idea

Lithographs and Giclees by Barbara Freeman

Chet Baker

 


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Recently Published


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David Robertson, author of W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues

W.C. Handy

St. Louis Blues, by W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band


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If you could have dinner with three people, who would they be?

Among those participating in the twelfth edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion are Gary Bartz, John Scofield, Billy Cobham and Esperanza Spalding

Gary Bartz


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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

The Death of Bessie Smith, by Rose Piper


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In the twenty-seventh edition of Great Encounters, David Robertson, author of W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues, tells the story of Handy's first recording session, and his meeting with James Reese Europe

W.C. Handy
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Marybeth Hamilton, author of In Search of the Blues

Leadbelly


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Karen Karlitz is the winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction contest. Her story is called "No Thanks"

Karen Karlitz


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Brad Snyder, author of A Well Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports

Curt Flood


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Jazz: Through the Life and Lens of Milt Hinton: An online photo exhibit



Milt Hinton

Laughing At Life, by Milt Hinton


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Ben Ratliff, author of Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

John Coltrane

Giant Steps


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Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad, on the complex life of the author of Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison


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Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus author Alex Halberstadt

Doc Pomus

Fruity Woman


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Gary Giddins on his new collection of essays, Natural Selection

Gary Giddins


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Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll author Rick Coleman

Fats Domino

I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday


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In cooperation with The Jazz Image author Lee Tanner, Jerry Jazz Musician presents "Masters of Jazz Photography," this month featuring the work of Jerry Stoll

photo of Pee Wee Russell and Gerry Mulligan by Jerry Stoll


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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

Devin Phillips


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An Online Story of Jazz in New Orleans, with an introduction by Nat Hentoff

Jelly Roll Morton

New Orleans was a free and easy place, comments by Jelly Roll Morton


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Now in the Art Gallery

The Art of James Allen



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Willie Mays

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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne author James Gavin

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The Art of Barbara Freeman


25% discount on the entire series available throughout the month of May, 2008



Artist Statement

    The "Ghosts of Jazz" is an important series because it gives honor and mention to the great musicans who brought the only original American art form to the world.

     My goal was to honor these "Great Ones" who have passed. In painting these portraits, I tried to create a visual sense of sound. By using high contrasts of blues and whites,my goal was to create a special world,and invite the observer in.

     I also wanted to create a special relationship between the individual musician and his instrument, by having them connected and complimenting each other.

     The history of Jazz has threads that run through out my family's history.

     My Grandfather "Benny",owned a music store in Baltimore during the early part of the last century. He knew Ethel Waters,and gave her a job to get her off the streets. He was arrested for selling , what was known then as "Race Records". It was illegal for white store owners to sell "Race Records", which was,of course Jazz. He refused, thus spending the night in jail, calling the arresting officers names I am too much of a lady to mention.

     My late father "Paul"... Growing up hearing the likes of King Oliver,Louis Armstrong,and Bessie Smith,left a deep impression on the Father's personality. He was childlike,with an incredible energy and curiosity about life. He took to this music,developing a love of the music,as his Father did before him.

     My Father was a Liquior Salesman in New York City,during the birth of "Bee-Bop". Knowing my Father,I am sure he chose this profession so he would be where his idols could be found. These include the likes of Art Tatum, Charlie Parker,Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Coleman hawkins, and Fats Waller.

     I grew up sitting on my father's knee, listening to stories about 52nd street, beautiful women, and late night jam sessions.

     The first song I remember hearing was Ella Fitzgerald's "Lullaby of Birdland". I would hold my teddy bear, and drift off to sleep. There were always parties at my house. Jazz Legends would be as close as a trip downstairs. If I was a good girl, and finished my homework, maybe I would get lucky, and be right there in the den where many late night jam sessions took place.

     Jazz is and always will be my heart, my first language, and my first love. These paintings are my way of sharing that love with the world.

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     Each piece is an acrylic on canvas, and is available as a Giclee, which is a custom made archival print on museum quality archival paper, or as an open edition lithograph.  Both versions are handsigned by Barbara Freeman.

Click on the image for more details.




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