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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
* In the new edition of Conversations with Gary Giddins, the country's most eminent jazz critic talks with us about big bands
* Django Reinhardt biographer Michael Dregni talks about the life of the acknowledged jazz master -- and the extraordinary times in which he lived
* "Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories," a Jerry Jazz Musician production published in cooperation with Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond author Doug Ramsey and Parkside Publications, features photographs and excerpts from the book, as well as sound samples of Desmond's music
* In the seventeenth edition of Great
Encounters, David Evanier, author of Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin, writes of the romance of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
* Composer and arranger Phil Kelly is profiled in Today's Artists
* Bunny M's new Accent on Youth column is called "Discovering Jazz -- on Film"
* Jazz Museum in Harlem co-producer Greg Thomas writes of a beloved New York trumpeter in "Danny Moore Remembered"
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Plus...Conversations with Gary
Giddins, Quiz Show, Accent on Youth, Heroes, Poetry, Short Fiction, Think About It, ArtBeat,
Catalog of Cool and more...
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From our
previous issue
* 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
* Jazz historian and Living With Jazz author Dan Morgenstern, on his career as a jazz writer, his defense of the latter-day Louis Armstrong, and his perspectives on eleven unique artists who, in their own way, helped construct the foundation of the music Morgenstern has so eloquently advocated for over half-a-century
* In the sixteenth edition of Great
Encounters, Doug Ramsey, author of Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, writes of the complexities surrounding the addition of drummer Joe Morello to the Dave Brubeck Quartet
* "S'monka Tetes," a poem by
Golda Solomon
* New in the Art Gallery...Work by Artoni Fletcher and Kenneth Walker
* Visit Boho Nouveau, our Catalog of Cool in which novelty is the great parent of pleasure
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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
* Paul Desmond biographer Doug Ramsey
* Reverend C. L. Franklin biographer Nick Salvatore
* New Short Fiction winning story
...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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