Jerry Jazz Musician Boho Nouveau

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

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

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

"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

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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Coming Soon

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

- Mark Twain