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In this issue of Jerry Jazz Musician
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photo Lee Tanner 
John Coltrane
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* Ben Ratliff, author of Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
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* Brad Snyder, author of A Well Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
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Jazz: Through the Life and Lens of Milt Hinton: An online photo exhibit
* What were five of your favorite record albums (or CD’s) when you were twenty years old, and what are five of your favorite CD’s today? Among those participating in the eleventh edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion are Peter Erskine, Steve Khan, Terri Lynne Carrington, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Ben Ratliff
* "Mountain," by Mark Kerstetter, the Jerry Jazz Musician New Short Fiction winner
* In the twenty-sixth edition of Great
Encounters, Milt Hinton, David Berger and Holly Maxson, authors of Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs, write about when Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie fought over a thrown spitball
* "The Life of Jackie McLean," a poem by Michael S. Harper
* Over 40 poets write about jazz (and other passions) 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 month 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...
* This distinctive instrumentalist is also known as "Mumbles" for his scat-singing style. Who is he? Play Quiz Show!
* From the interview archives...Arthur Kempton, author of Boogaloo, on the connections between Thomas A. Dorsey, Sam Cooke, Motown's Berry Gordy, Stax Record's Al Bell, and hip-hop entrepreneurs Shug Knight and Russell Simmons, and their influence on the art and commerce of black American popular music
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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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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
Also:
* 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...
Coming Soon
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* Marybeth Hamilton, author of In Search of the Blues
* 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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