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Winard Harper ___Drummer Winard Harper is passionate about jazz. "This music is powerful," he says. "It can do a lot of good for people. If they'd spend some time each day listening to it, we would see many changes in the world."
Come Into the Light
Float Like a Butterfly Little Sunflower * Read more about Winard Harper
Duke Snider,
1926 - 2011
"Duke Snider: In His Own Words"
George Shearing,
1919 - 2011
"Lullaby of Birdland"
Billy Taylor,
1921 - 2010
A lesson in jazz improvisation
James Moody,
1925 - 2010
A 2004 Jerry Jazz Musician conversation with Moody and journalist Nat Hentoff, "Remembering Dizzy Gillespie"
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"To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven."
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869 - 1935 _________ Today's Gift Idea Lithographs and Giclees by Barbara Freeman
Chet Baker
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Justin Reynolds is the winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction contest. His story is called "Fahrenheit"
Justin Reynolds
Gary Giddins, the country's most eminent jazz critic, discusses his new books, Jazz and Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema
Gary Giddins
James Gavin, author of Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
Lena Horne
Stormy Weather, by Lena Horne
Danny Knestaut is the winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction contest. His story is called "Fahrenheit"
Danny Knestaut
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
* 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
* 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
* 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 * *Jazz: Through the Life and Lens of Milt Hinton: An online photo exhibit
Milt Hinton
Laughing At Life, by Milt Hinton
*Ben Ratliff, author of Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
John Coltrane
Giant Steps
* Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad, on the complex life of the author of Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
* 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
* Up From New Orleans: Life Before, During and After Katrina -- A conversation with transplanted New Orleans musicians Devin Phillips and Mark DiFlorio
Devin Phillips
* 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
* 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 _________ Coming Soon Max Watman, author of Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine ...ensure you won't miss any of this (and much more in the works) by subscribing to our newsletter. _________
"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."
- Mark Twain
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by Gary Giddins
Judgementby the Pete Zimmer QuintetDown or Up Radiant Blueby Anton SchwartzSlightly Off Course
Judgement
by the Pete Zimmer Quintet
Down or Up
Radiant Blueby Anton SchwartzSlightly Off Course
Radiant Blue
by Anton Schwartz
Slightly Off Course
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Ray Brown
ODE TO RAY BROWN
Oh, maestro of the viol sweet as Georgia Brown, sweeter than brown sugar, you wove myriad tapestries of velvet sounds and rhythms perfectly cadenced with the heartstrings of the soul reverberating in rapturous harmonic vibrato. Never a soured note escaped those calloused fingertips, never an upbeat a split second too early or too late - ballads to make one weep, bebop as smooth as honey... Walk that dog! - By Krikor Der Hohannesian
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Black Orpheus , by Ray Brown
May, 2012
*This Month at Jerry Jazz Musician
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Recently Published:
"Inspiration," by Gabriella Costa, the winner of the twenty-ninth Jerry Jazz Musician New Short Fiction Award
"Practice and Performance: The True Test of Dedication to Music" is the second column by Accent on Youth writer Sam Bishoff
Cab Calloway biographer Alyn Shipton is interviewed
An interview with Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Thelonious Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley on the life of the iconic pianist
Alyn Shipton, author of Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Gary Giddins, the country's most eminent jazz critic, discusses his new books, Jazz and Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life of an American Original Interview Archive
Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life of an American Original
Interview Archive
"Inspiration," by Gabriella Costa, the Jerry Jazz Musician New Short Fiction winner ...Short Fiction Contest details "LP Anniversary Song," a poem by Michael S. Harper New Orleans Stories: Jerry Jazz Musician-produced interviews and features, including the participation of writers Gary Giddins, Nat Hentoff, and Thomas Brothers, as well as jazz musicians whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina
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 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 Conversations with Gary Giddins, 15 discussions with the country's most eminent jazz writer Heroes...We all had them. Our guests speak of theirs
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
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
Conversations with Gary Giddins, 15 discussions with the country's most eminent jazz writer
Heroes...We all had them. Our guests speak of theirs
Quiz Show! What do you know about jazz?
Jazz: Through the Life and Lens of Milt Hinton: An online photo exhibit In cooperation with The Jazz Image author Lee Tanner, Jerry Jazz Musician presents "Masters of Jazz Photography," this month featuring the work of Hugh Bell Jerry Jazz Musician and Candlewick Press present Jazz ABZ, a gallery of impressions and text from the colorful book of the same name that features the poetry of Wynton Marsalis, the art of Paul Rogers, and the jazz history of Phil Schaap
Max Watman, author of Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine ...and lots more in the works...Ensure you won't miss any of this by subscribing to our newsletter.
- Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869 - 1935
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- Bob Dylan
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