George Carlin on death

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Johnny Griffin,

1928 - 2008

Blues For Gonzi

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Jerry Wexler,

1917 - 2008

Wexler talks about working with Bob Dylan

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn,

1928 - 2008

A tribute to Solzhenitsyn

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Jim McKay,

1921 - 2008

Bob Costas remembers Jim McKay

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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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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

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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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In the twenty-sixth edition of Great Encounters, Milt Hinton, David Berger and Holly Maxson, authors of Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs, write about when Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie fought over a thrown spitball

Dizzy Gillespie

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Brian Greene

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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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Steve Khan

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Gary Giddins

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Fats Domino

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Zach Ferguson

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Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era author Elizabeth Pepin

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Ascension -- Edition II

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Stanley Crouch on his new collection of jazz essays, Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz

Stanley Crouch

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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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In the twenty-sixth edition of Great Encounters, Milt Hinton, David Berger and Holly Maxson, authors of Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs, write about when Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie fought over a thrown spitball

Dizzy Gillespie

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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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