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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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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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The Art of James Allen



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Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Great Encounters: When Richard Rodgers met Lorenz Hart

Great Encounters

The day Richard Rodgers met Lorenz Hart...



Excerpted from

Lorenz Hart:

A Poet on Broadway

by

Frederick Nolan



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Listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing a Rodgers and Hart song, The Lady Is A Tramp

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   A few days later, (Philip) Leavitt took young Richard Rodgers around to the Hart house.  Larry Hart met them at the door. They were a study in opposites. Dick was fresh, tanned, athletic, handsome, a high school champion swimmer and tennis player.  Larry was unshaven -- according to Rodgers, Hart invariably looked like he needed a shave every five minutes after he'd had one -- and wearing a bathrobe over an evening shirt and trousers, with carpet slippers on his feet. He was already talking -- and doubtless puffing a cigar and rubbing his hands together as he invariably did -- as his visitors climbed the steps, and kept going non-stop as he took them back to the overstuffed library, where there was a piano.  Bridget, the cat, strolled in, and Hart introduced her an "old fencewalker." That broke the ice.

 It was all so simple.  Dick sat down at the piano, and Lorry said, "What have you written?" and Dick played some of his music, and it was really love at first sight.  All that had to be done was [for me to] sit, listen, and let nature take its course.

     Puffing on the ever-present cigar, hands flying, brown eyes flashing with enthusiasm and energy, Hart expounded upon the craft of lyric writing, excoriating the intellectual poverty of simpleton writers who rhymed "slush" with "mush" while neglecting the possibilities inherent in double and triple rhymes, slant rhymes, fragmented rhymes, false rhymes, interior rhymes, feminine rhymes -- but most of all, witty rhymes.  Rodgers was captivated.

     "I listened in rapt astonishment and as he launched into a diatribe against songwriters who had small intellectual equipment and less courage, and who failed to take every opportunity to inch a little further into territory hitherto unexplored in lyric writing.  I was enchanted," Rodgers recalled in what has become perhaps his most-quoted comment on his mercurial little partner.  "Neither of us mentioned it, but we evidently knew we would work together, and I left Hart's house having acquired in one afternoon a career, a best friend, and a source of permanent irritation."

     Elsewhere Rodgers has been quoted -- more accurately, one feels -- as saying he left the Hart house bubbling over with excitement, repeating over and over to himself, "I have a lyricist, I have a lyricist!"  Ever since he had first heard Jerome Kern's music, Dick had only wanted to do one thing, write songs.  It takes no imagination to picture him walking down 119th Street that Sunday evening, sixteen years of age, elated, exhilarated, full of hope and anticipation.

     Of Hart's feelings there can equally be no doubt.  As Philip Leavitt put it with such unwitting percipience, it was love at first sight.

     "Poor Larry," one of his close friends said.  "What a shame he had to fall in love with Dick."

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Lorenz Hart:

A Poet on Broadway

by

Frederick Nolan

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From LORENZ HART: A POET ON BROADWAY, by Frederick Nolan, copyright -- 1995 by Frederick Nolan.  Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.




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