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Jerry Jazz Musician Newsletter
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February, 2005
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Newly published on Jerry Jazz Musician
* Our Jerry Jazz Musician hosted Roundtable features Stanley Crouch, cultural critic Gerald Early, and jazz singer Kitty Margolis in a discussion about the essence of Crouch's jazz novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome, the issues of race on the bandstand, the image jazz musicians have within society, the improvisational similarities writers and jazz musicians share, the future of jazz, and its remarkable past
* Ghosts of 42nd Street author Anthony Bianco on America's most celebrated -- and infamous -- block
* In our thirteenth edition of "Great Encounters," Jeffrey Magee, author of The Uncrowned King of Jazz: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz, writes about the departure of Louis Armstrong from Henderson's orchestra in 1925
* Heroes...We all had them. For years, we have been asking the guests we interview to talk about theirs. You can read them at our "Heroes" page.
Now, we invite you to write about the person you recall being your own childhood hero. All submissions are published
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Plus...Conversations with Gary Giddins, Quiz Show, Heroes, Poetry, Short Fiction, Think About It, Catalog of Cool and more...
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From our previous issue
* An interview with Geoffrey Ward, author of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the companion to the Ken Burns PBS documentary, Unforgivable Blackness
* An interview with Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz author Joshua Berrett
* In our twelfth edition of "Great Encounters," Geoffrey Ward writes about the interconnecting paths of boxers Jack Johnson and Joe Louis
* "Boxing's Golden Age," a photo exhibit illustrating the essence of sports during the first third of the American century -- featuring forty photos from the Harry E. Winkler Photographic Collection
* Bunny M's Accent on Youth column is called "Interacting Art Forms," a conversation with musician and poet David Newman
* "Blues for Red," a poem by Tom Bauer
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Coming Soon
* John Leland, author of Hip: The History
* Johnny Mercer biographer Gene Lees
* Thomas Webber, author of Flying Over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy
* Fletcher Henderson biographer Jeffrey Magee
* Jazz critic Dan Morgenstern
* New Short Fiction winning story
...and lots more in the works...
Jerry Jazz Musician
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- Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times, September, 2004
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