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Mark DiFlorio and Devin PhillipsPortland, Oregon, August, 2006
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This issue of the Jerry Jazz Musician newsletter is devoted to announcing the publication of Up From New Orleans: Life Before, During, and After Katrina – a conversation with transplanted New Orleans musicians Devin Phillips and Mark DiFlorio
Also:
"Passing By" is the second column by Accent on Youth writer Ronald Robertson – who writes about a personal discovery around his generation's "jazz"
From our
previous issue
Charlie Parker
An interview with Charlie Parker biographer Brian Priestley
Also:
* The sixth edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion, in which Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal, Ashley Kahn, Mike Zwerin, John Pizzarelli, Roger Kellaway and others answer the question, "What are the five greatest albums (LP or CD) of all time?"
* "Out From In" – the debut column by new Accent on Youth co-writer Ted Bryan – explores the music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Eric Dolphy
* Mary Jo Marcellus Wyse of Rochester, New York is the twelfth recipient of the Jerry Jazz Musician New Short Fiction Award. Her story is called "Mute"
* In the twenty-fourth edition of Great
Encounters, Peter Richmond, author of Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee, writes about when Lee joined Benny Goodman's band
* Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band is featured in "Today's Artists"
* In 1938, Charlie Parker stayed in this musician's New York apartment, despite the wife's objections. Who is he?
Play Quiz Show!
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* From the archives...Negro Leagues baseball legend
Buck O'Neil – a 2003 interview
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Plus...Conversations with Gary
Giddins, Quiz Show, Great Encounters, Accent on Youth, Heroes, Poetry, Short Fiction, Think About It, ArtBeat,
Catalog of Cool, and more...
Coming Soon
* Roberto Clemente biographer David Maraniss
* Thomas Brothers, author of Louis Armstrong's New Orleans
* Ashley Kahn, author of The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
* Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics author John Gennari
* Elizabeth Pepin, co-author of Harlem of the West – The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
* What do you recall about the first live music performance you ever attended? Dionne Warwick, Alan Broadbent, Cyrus Chestnut and others share their memories in the seventh edition of "Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion"
...and lots more in the
works...
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* Short Fiction Contest Details
* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues
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