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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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Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Gary Giddins Blindfold Test Excerpt Answer 7

Excerpt #7

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"It is perhaps a coincidence that one of Thelonious Monk's favorite tunes is a nineteenth-century Protestant hymn by a composer named William H. Monk. Not only the composer's name, but also the title of the piece, "Abide With Me," seems perfectly fitting for Thelonious. We suspect that Monk himself always knew what he was doing, or at least what he wanted to be able to do. The same can hardly be said for the world around him. Yet, there were always a few who did abide with Thelonious, and made it possible for him to go his own way."*

Listen to Monk play 'Round Midnight

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Dan Morgenstern

GG  Could this be Orrin Keepnews?

JJM  No.

GG  Hmm. Give me a clue?

JJM  It is one of your mentors.

GG  Not Dan Morgenstern.

JJM   Yes.

GG  This is Dan?

JJM  Yes, from Jazz Journal, 1960.

GG  Wow, this is really early Dan. I have never read this before.

JJM  This came from the Robert Gottlieb edited book, Reading Jazz.

GG  It's funny, because I never would have identified this is a Morgenstern piece. It's slightly overwritten and defensive, but then you have to remember that in 1960, Monk was still emerging from an obscurity during which his very competence was often questioned. Even Monk seemed amazed at his eventual acceptance. He once said, "I'm famous -- ain't that a bitch?" It's obviously a general statement from a larger essay, more of a throat-clearing lead, presumably setting up an argument that Monk was stifled by a lot of ignorance and so forth.

Of course, you want to find out where he's going with this. Dan's strength is when he gets to the music, which reinforces what we were discussing earlier, because he is about as far from being a musicologist as you can get, but he has the best ears in the business.

During a time I was trying to fill in on the many gaps of my ignorance, I went to visit Dan to borrow a Frank Teschemacher album. He pulled an album out of his immense wall of LPs and started going down the song titles, and he would say, "This tune has a great sixteen bars by so and so, and this one features terrific drumming," and I'm thinking that it had to be years since he last heard that record. To make a track-by-track assessment off the top of his head was astounding, but he has that gift. The other great thing Dan does better than anybody else is the way he can write about a musician in such a way that you feel you are in the hands of an objective critic as well as someone who loved the artist as a human being. He writes with a great deal of understanding and generosity, and does it with an easy warmth that doesn't call attention to itself. It is a purely literary gift and a consequence of who Dan is.

Dan's style of writing in Downbeat and on album liner notes was so convincing and so full of feeling that you wanted to share the experience he was having about that music. In the '60s, he'd write how he envied anyone who discovered a particular performance for the first time, as if he believed the experience would open a new world, expand the listener's horizons. His writing on Armstrong is absolutely nonpareil in that respect. Dan wrote the liner notes to the Decca Rare Items album, and talked about the music with such unembarrassed joy and conviction at a time when almost everybody else was saying that this was second-hand stuff. He has a tremendous feeling for individuality and originality. He can hear it, he can put his finger on it, and he can share it with the reader in such a way that you feel you know it better for having heard it through his ears. You could have chosen a better example!  In any case, I can't wait for his book next fall.

* Excerpted from The Jazz Journal, 1960

Jazz People,

by

Dan Morgenstern



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