Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Interview page

In Memory Of

Lena Horne,

1917 - 2010

Stormy Weather

Hank Jones,

1918 - 2010

Willow Weep For Me, a 1994 Carnegie Hall performance

Benjamin Hooks,

1925 - 2010

Gene Lees,

1928 - 2010

Dorothy Height,

1912 - 2010

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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

James Gavin, author of Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

Lena Horne

Stormy Weather, by Lena Horne

Larry Tye, author of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

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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Trudy Carpenter is the winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction contest. Her story is called "Bumps Out Then Bumps Back "

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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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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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Heroes...We all had them. For years, we have been asking the guests we interview to talk about theirs. You can read them at our Heroes page. Now, we invite you to write about the person you recall being your own childhood hero. All submissions are published...

Willie Mays

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Coming Soon

Interviews with Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne author James Gavin, and Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Genius

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"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."

- Mark Twain