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In this 2023 Jerry Jazz Musician interview, Mr. Edwards discusses his work with Henry Threadgill, widely recognized as one of the most original and innovative voices in contemporary music, and the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
...August 7th, 2026
Little is known of the lives of many of the young Black women who – in the Girl Groups of the ‘60’s – sang, wrote, created, and popularized their generation-defining music, and even less about the challenges they faced while performing during such a complex era, one rife with racism, sexism, and music industry corruption. In this February, 2024 Jerry Jazz Musician interview, Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz discuss their book’s endeavor at giving them an opportunity to voice their meaningful experiences.
...March 26th, 2026
In this 2021 interview, the author Travis Atria discusses the story of trumpeter Arthur Briggs’s courage in the face of racism and hatred during World War II, when he was arrested in Paris and sent to the Nazi prison camp at St. Denis, France, where he learned to survive the daily horror of his incarceration through the strength of his spirt and the gift of his musical talent.
...November 3rd, 2025
In this April, 2020 interview, Ms. Golia discusses her book and the artist whose philosophy and the astounding, adventurous music he created served to continually challenge the skeptical status quo, and made him a guiding light of the artistic avant-garde throughout a career spanning seven decades.
...August 28th, 2025
In a 2005 Jerry Jazz Musician interview, Paul Desmond biographer Doug Ramsey discusses his subject – a jazz artist who transcended genres to establish one of the most immediately recognizable sounds in all of music.
...June 3rd, 2025
In a 2002 interview, award-winning music writer Will Friedwald talks about great versions of standards such as “Lush Life,” Stardust,” “St. Louis Blues,” and “Summertime.”
...January 28th, 2025
In this 2020 interview, the late jazz scholar Dan Morgenstern and pianist Christian Sands engage in a lively discussion that reminds readers of the brilliance of Erroll Garner
...December 16th, 2024
The myths surrounding the life and career of blues legend Robert Johnson is discussed in a November, 2003 interview with the blues historian Barry Lee Pearson.
...October 18th, 2024
Amram talks about his work with Kerouac blended poetry, jazz, blues, theatre and what is now considered performance art into an unforgettably intoxicating stew that became a life-changing experience for the many people who witnessed it.
...October 4th, 2024
In May of 2024, Major League Baseball announced that it is absorbing available Negro Leagues statistics into the sports official record books. In this 2004 interview, Neil Lanctot, who painstakingly reconstructed the institutional history of Black professional baseball, talks in detail about the league’s important role in the sport (and country) during the height of its existence.
...June 28th, 2024
Few music industry executives have had as meaningful an impact on jazz music as Michael Cuscuna, who passed away on April 20 at the age of 75. He dedicated his life to music – particularly to the concept of mining and marketing the music recorded a generation ago by essential and under-appreciated jazz musicians buried deep in record label catalogs.
...April 23rd, 2024
. . In this 2006 interview, John Hammond biographer Dunstan Prial talks about the life and career of one of the most charismatic and powerful figures in the history of American music. . . ___ . . photo by David Schull . Dunstan Prial, author of The Producer: John Hammond and the … Continue reading “From the Interview Archive: Dunstan Prial, author of The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music“
...April 19th, 2024
In this interview, Alyn Shipton discusses Cab Calloway, whose vocal theatrics and flamboyant stage presence made him one of the country’s most beloved entertainers.
...December 20th, 2023
In a 2013 Jerry Jazz Musician interview, Guthrie Ramsey talks about Bud Powell, one of the greatest pianist’s in jazz history, and the collision of two vibrant political economies: the discourses of art and the practice of Blackness.
...November 28th, 2023
The former Village Voice writer Gary Giddins, who was prominently featured in Ken Burns’ documentary Jazz, and who is the country’s preeminent jazz critic, joins us in a December 23, 2002 conversation about jazz legend Thelonious Monk.
...November 10th, 2023
In a 2006 Jerry Jazz Musician interview, the eminent Louis Armstrong scholar Thomas Brothers talks about the city of New Orleans, and how it imprinted itself on a young Louis Armstrong…
...September 18th, 2023
Michael Dregni talks about the life of the acknowledged jazz master, Django Reinhardt – and the extraordinary times and circumstances in which he lived.
...May 6th, 2023
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