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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
- William Wordsworth
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Newly Published
on Jerry Jazz Musician
* Fletcher Henderson biographer
Jeffrey Magee on the career of the musician who helped shape an entire musical era
* Paul Morris writes of the riches of Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century, the new collection of essays by Gary Giddins, the country's most eminent jazz critic who is a frequent contributor to Jerry Jazz Musician. Morris's review includes a variety of book excerpts and sound samples
* Jackson Lassiter is the winner of our ninth Short Fiction Contest. His story is called "Natural Selection"
* In Accent on Youth writer Bunny M's new column, "The Coffeehouse Culture," she takes a look at its contributions to young people's growing appreciation for music, life and style
* In the fifteenth edition of Great
Encounters, Ed Kirkeby, Fats Waller's personal manager and author of Ain't Misbehavin': The Story of Fats Waller, writes about the night Art Tatum dazzled Harlem pianists Waller and James P. Johnson
* "So What," a poem by
Golda Solomon
* New in the Art Gallery...The paintings of Harold Smith, featuring, among others, a beautiful oil painting of Art Blakey
* Visit Boho Nouveau, our Catalog of Cool in which novelty is the great parent of pleasure
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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
* Hip: The
History author John Leland on how an underground
idea -- "hip" -- has shaped American culture
* Thomas Webber, author of Flying
over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy
* Johnny Mercer biographer Gene Lees
* In the fourteenth edition of Great
Encounters, Michael Dregni, author of Django: The Life and
Music of a Gypsy Legend, tells the story of the first commercial
recording session of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, December
27, 1934
* "On Meeting Eric Dolphy," a poem by
Golda Solomon
* New in the Catalog of
Cool...Introducing the 'Day of the Dead' style shrines of Ron Rogers
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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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Coming Soon
* Jazz historian Dan
Morgenstern, author of Living with Jazz
* Gary
Giddins on big bands
* Django
Reinhardt biographer Michael Dregni
* Kevin Boyle, National Book Award winning author of Arc of Justice, on the Jazz Age civil rights saga of Detroit's Ossian and Gladys Sweet
...and lots more in the
works...
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Many thanks to those who have made contributions to Jerry Jazz Musician
Jerry Jazz
Musician
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