In Memory Of
John Hope Franklin,
1915 - 2009
John Hope Franklin's memories of James Weldon Johnson
and
John Updike,
1932 - 2009
A filmed interview with Updike
and
Louis Bellson,
1924 - 2009
Louis Bellson drum solo, a 1950 filmed performance (with Duke Ellington)
and
Bob Gerstlauer,
1935 - 2009
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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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Marybeth Hamilton, author of In Search of the Blues
Leadbelly
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Jocelyn Crawley is the winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction contest. Her story is called "Maybe Marrying Margaret"
Jocelyn Crawley
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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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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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Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad, on the complex life of the author of Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
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What were five of your favorite record albums (or CD’s) when you were twenty years old, and what are five of your favorite CD’s today?
Among those participating in the eleventh edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion are Peter Erskine, Steve Khan, Terri Lynne Carrington, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Ben Ratliff
Steve Khan
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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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"The Future of Jazz" is the third column by Accent on Youth writer Zach Ferguson
Zach Ferguson
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Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
author Elizabeth Pepin
Pony Poindexter and Leo Wright at SFs Bop City, 1950's
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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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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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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
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- Mark Twain
