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| Robert Johnson: Lost and Found author Barry Lee
Pearson |
With just forty-one recordings to
his credit, Robert Johnson (1911-38) is a giant in the history of
blues music. Johnson's vast influence on twentieth-century American
music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of
twenty-seven, has allowed speculation and myths to obscure the facts
of his life. The most famous of these legends depicts a young
Johnson meeting the Devil at a dusty Mississippi crossroads at
midnight and selling his soul in exchange for prodigious guitar
skills. Barry
Lee Pearson, noted blues scholar and author of Robert Johnson: Lost and Found, discusses the myths
surrounding the life and career of Robert Johnson in a November,
2003 Jerry Jazz Musician interview.
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"Because he had a lot of feeling in his voice and
sounded very convincing, people thought Johnson always sang
about himself and that everything he sang was true. And, I
believe that generation of listener thought whatever Johnson
sang about actually happened to him - that he went to the
crossroads and made a deal with the devil, for example. I
don't think he had anything like that in mind when he sang
that song."
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| Low Down author Amy Albany |
Amy
Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great
jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental
education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young
and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced
obscurity. It was during these times that his daughter knew him
best. Ms. Albany discusses her book, Low Down: junk, jazz, and other fairy tales from
childhood in a Jerry Jazz Musician interview.
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Albany |
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"The fact is that my parents were truly battling demons
all their lives, and I give them a lot of credit for doing the
best they could. My father in particular was phenomenal in so
many ways, and I learned so much from him. Sure he was flawed,
as everyone is, but in spite of that he was such a warm,
friendly person. You have to learn to take the bad with the
good, and I wouldn't have traded him for an upstanding, boring
father."
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| The Art of Romare Bearden Online Exhibit
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Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) was one of
America's great artistic innovators, blazing his own trail in a time
of turbulent cultural change. While his work offers an invaluable
view of mid-twentieth-century African-American experience, it has
also come to occupy a significant place in the wider history of
American art and speaks to the universal concerns of artists
everywhere. The thirty works presented on the Jerry Jazz Musician on
line exhibit -- published in cooperation with the National
Gallery of Art -- include many selections from his half-century of
work that reveal the experimental evolution of his collages, but
also examples of his paintings in oil and gouache; watercolors and
drawings; photographs, monotypes, and edition prints; designs for
record album covers, book illustrations, and the ballet; and the
artist's only known sculpture.
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| Also in this issue of Jerry Jazz Musician |
They Marched Into Sunlight
author David Maraniss on Vietnam,
Madison, Wisconsin, and events of 1967.
Jazz in the Modern World, a
Jerry Jazz Musician hosted roundtable conversation with Joshua
Redman, Bruce Lundvall, and Ben Ratliff.
Celebrating African American History, exclusive Jerry Jazz Musician interviews with and
about prominent African Americans.
Accent on Youth is sixteen
year old Bunny M.'s column on the challenges she faces as a youthful
fan of jazz.
Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, a poem by Cyrus Cassells.
From the archives,
our December, 2002 interview with Carla Kaplan, author of
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters.
Think About It...thought
provoking and timely historic quotations.
Great Encounters are book
excerpts that chronicle famous encounters among twentieth century
cultural icons. This month, John Chilton writes about when Gene
Krupa hired Roy Eldridge.
Are heroes hard to find? Our
guests talk of theirs in our Heroes feature.
The
Art Gallery features more
than twenty artists whose primary work is music art.
From
last issue...
Gary Giddins on jazz
criticism; Fire in a Canebrake author Laura Wexler on the last
mass lynching in America; Boogaloo author Arthur Kempton;
Seriously Funny author Gerald Nachman on the
comedians of the fifties and sixties.
Coming Soon to
Jerry Jazz Musician
John D'Emilio on civil rights leader
Bayard Rustin; Gary Giddins in part one of a conversation on
neglected and underated jazz musicians; Roy Eldridge biographer John
Chilton; New Short Fiction Contest winning story, and lots more in
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