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The second annual "Accent on Youth Essay Contest" has been announced. View the details about the competition -- judged by Dee Dee Bridgewater and Gary Giddins -- that presents aspiring young writers with the opportunity of becoming the next "Accent on Youth" columnist.
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This month on Jerry Jazz Musician
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John Hammond
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* The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music
author Dunstan Prial discusses the man who played a major role in the development of twentieth-century popular culture
Also:
* What are four or five of the the most romantic tunes ever recorded? Among those sharing their opinions in the ninth edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion are Famoudou Don Moye, Geri Allen, Bennie Maupin, Bill Bruford, Delfeayo Marsalis, and Winard Harper
* An interview with Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era co-author Elizabeth Pepin -- including an extensive photo gallery
* New columns from Accent on Youth writers Ted Bryan and Ronald Robertson
* "TATTOO," 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 Dennis Stock
* This tenor saxophone player succeeded Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton's Orchestra. Who is he?
Play Quiz Show!
* From the archives... Donzaleigh Abernathy, author of
Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement, talks about being a child of the Movement
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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...
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Our interviews are a great source of entertainment and information, featuring noted historians, biographers, critics and musicians who take on the topics of Ralph Ellison, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Jack Johnson, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Richard Wright, the Civil Rights Movement, the influence of jazz on American culture, and many others. Visit our page celebrating African American History
From our
previous issue
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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
* When you were growing up, what were three or four of your parents' favorite recordings? Among those sharing their memories in the eighth edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion are Toots Thielemans, Chuck Israels, Dave Douglas, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling and Hubert Laws
* Stanley Crouch on his new collection of jazz essays, Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
* The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records author Ashley Kahn
* "Mystery in C Minor," by Bruce Golden, the Jerry Jazz Musician New Short Fiction winner
* New columns from Accent on Youth writers Ted Bryan and Ronald Robertson
* "MATCHBOOK: The Spinnaker (Sausalito): in memory of Bill Evans," a poem by Michael S. Harper
* In the twenty-fifth edition of Great
Encounters, Dunstan Prial, author of The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music, writes about when Hammond "discovered" Billie Holiday
* In cooperation with The Jazz Image author Lee Tanner, Jerry Jazz Musician presents "Masters of Jazz Photography," this month featuring the work of Charles Peterson
* 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
Coming Soon
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* Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics author John Gennari
* Gary Giddins on jazz festivals
* Fats Domino biographer Rick Coleman
* Joshua Prager, author of The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
* New editions of "Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion" and "Great Encounters," and the New Short Fiction Contest winning story
...and lots more in the
works...
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* "Accent on Youth" Essay Contest details
* Short Fiction Contest Details
* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues
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