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This month on Jerry Jazz Musician
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photo Frank Driggs Collection
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans author Thomas Brothers discusses the city and musician whose impact on American culture is incalculable
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* "What do you recall about the first live music performance you ever attended?" Dave Frishberg, Dionne Warwick, Alan Broadbent, Bob Blumenthal, Clare Fischer, Bill Kirchner, Cyrus Chestnut and four Jerry Jazz Musician subscribers are among those who share their memories in the seventh edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion
* Roberto Clemente biographer David Maraniss remembers the great Pittsburgh Pirates player who forever changed the game of baseball
"Out From In: Part Two" is the second column by "Accent on Youth" writer Ted Bryan -- who writes about the musical complexities of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
* "On First Listening to Native Dancer by Wayne Shorter," a poem by Michael S. Harper
* In cooperation with The Jazz Image author Lee Tanner, Jerry Jazz Musician presents "Masters of Jazz Photography," this month featuring the work of Bob Parent
* Gene Cipriano is featured in "Today's Artists"
* This trumpeter has been called "the missing link" between Roy Eldridge and Fats Navarro. Who is he?
Play Quiz Show!
* From the archives...Chet Baker biographer James Gavin talks about the life of the great trumpeter in a 2002 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...
From our
previous issue
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Mark DiFlorio and Devin PhillipsPortland, Oregon, August, 2006
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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
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"Passing By" is the second column by Accent on Youth writer Ronald Robertson – who writes about a personal discovery around his generation's "jazz"
Coming Soon
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* Ashley Kahn, author of The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
* Stanley Crouch on his new book, Considering Genius
* 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
* The new Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest winning story
* New editions of "Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion" and "Great Encounters"
...and lots more in the
works...
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* Short Fiction Contest Details
* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues
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