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For the second year in a row, Jerry Jazz Musician has been nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association for "Best Website Concentrating on Jazz." Thanks to our readers for your support.
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This month on Jerry Jazz Musician
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Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics
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* Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics brings to the fore jazz’s most vital critics and the role they have played not only in defining the history of jazz but also in shaping jazz’s significance in American culture and life.
Author John Gennari discusses his book, described by Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn author David Hajdu as "groundbreaking and essential."
Also:
* Gary Giddins on jazz festivals
* Joshua Prager, author of The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
* "Sonny Stitt" is the debut column by Accent on Youth writer Zach Ferguson
* "10'S & THINGS," a poem by Michael S. Harper (in memory of Carmen McRae)
* In cooperation with The Jazz Image author Lee Tanner, Jerry Jazz Musician presents "Masters of Jazz Photography," this month featuring the work of Bob Willoughby
* Pianist Jim Pearce is featured on the Today's Artists page
* When this bandleader temporarily retired in 1936, key members of his band became the nucleus of the first Woody Herman Orchestra. Who is he?
Play Quiz Show!
* From the archives...An Online Story of Jazz in New Orleans: With an introduction by Nat Hentoff
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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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photo Frank Driggs Collection
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
Coming Soon
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* Fats Domino biographer Rick Coleman
* Alex Halberstadt, author of Lonely Avenue: Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus
* Gary Giddins on cultural criticism and Natural Selection, his new collection of essays on music, film and literature
* Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad
* Doris Day biographer Tom Santopietro
* 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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* Short Fiction Contest Details
* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues
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