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In this issue of Jerry Jazz Musician
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photo Library of Congress 
Ralph Ellison (left), photographing Langston Hughes, c. 1949
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* Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad on the complex life of the author of Invisible Man
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* Alex Halberstadt, author of Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus
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What three or four songs best epitomize the era of the Civil Rights Movement? Among those sharing their opinions in the tenth edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion are Juan Williams, Bruce Lundvall, Julius Lester, Henry Grimes, Chico Hamilton, and Tom Paxton
* Colleen Anderson is the 16th winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest. Her story is called "Cipher"
* "The Future of Jazz" is the third column by Accent on Youth writer Zach Ferguson
* "ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET [after Miles Ahead]," a poem by Michael S. Harper
* 19 poets write about jazz on the Jerry Jazz Musician poetry page
* In cooperation with The Jazz Image author Lee Tanner, Jerry Jazz Musician presents "Masters of Jazz Photography," this issue featuring the work of Hugh Bell
* Heroes...We all had them. Mantle, Mays, Satchel Paige, Wonderwoman, Davy Crockett - even Pippi Longstocking!
Excerpted from exclusive Jerry Jazz Musician interviews, our guests talk about theirs...
* Before being involved in organizing the Jazz Composers Guild, this important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960’s was a cigarette girl at New York’s Birdland. Who is she?
Play Quiz Show!
* From the interview archives...Penny Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World, talks about the Cold War era U.S. State Department sponsored jazz tours in a 2005 Jerry Jazz Musician interview
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Plus...Reminiscing in Tempo, 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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Jerry Jazz Musician 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 Interview page or our African American History page for access to this content.
From our
previous issue
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Gary Giddins
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* Gary Giddins on cultural criticism and Natural Selection, his new collection of essays on music, film and literature
Also:
* Fats Domino biographer Rick Coleman
* Joanne Seiff is the 15th winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest. Her story is called "A Prayer For Swift and University"
* "The Versatility of Music" is the second column by Accent on Youth writer Zach Ferguson
* "9 23 99: Coltrane Notes on the Millenium," a poem by Michael S. Harper
* 16 poets write about jazz on the Jerry Jazz Musician poetry page
* In cooperation with The Jazz Image author Lee Tanner, Jerry Jazz Musician presents "Masters of Jazz Photography," this issue featuring the work of Herb Snitzer
* Heroes...We all had them. Mantle, Mays, Satchel Paige, Wonderwoman, Davy Crockett - even Pippi Longstocking!
Excerpted from exclusive Jerry Jazz Musician interviews, our guests talk about theirs...
* Drummer Winard Harper is featured on the Today's Artists page
* In 1959, this bandleader toured Europe with a group originally put together to play for Harold Arlen's show Free and Easy. Who is he?
Play Quiz Show!
* From the archives...David Amram celebrates his friendship with Jack Kerouac in a July, 2002 Jerry Jazz Musician interview
Coming Soon
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* New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff, author of Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
* A new Short Fiction Contest winning story
* A new 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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