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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
* An interview with Penny Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
* Jazz on the River author William Kenney, on the history of Fate Marable and the riverboat jazz bands
* In the twentieth edition of Great
Encounters, Ben Green, author of Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters, writes about the 1948 game between the Trotters and George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers
* "GEO-BESTIARY 12," a poem by Jim Harrison
* Announcing a great opportunity for young writers: Gary Giddins and Dee Dee Bridgewater are the judges in the Accent on Youth column competition
* From the archives...In a 2002 interview, Richard Wright biographer Hazel Rowley discusses Wright's extraordinary journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer, fiercely independent thinker, and outspoken critic of racism.
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Plus...Conversations with Gary
Giddins, Quiz Show, Great Encounters, Accent on Youth, Heroes, Poetry, Short Fiction, Think About It, ArtBeat,
Catalog of Cool, Tim Duroche's Occasional Jazz Conjectures, and more...
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From our
previous issue
* An interview with journalist Terry Teachout, who talks about his next biographical subject -- Louis Armstrong
* "Kansas City Jazz: A Pictorial Tour," a Jerry Jazz Musician production published in cooperation with Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix, authors of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop -- a look at the fascinating history of Kansas City's golden age through book excerpts, photos and music
* In the nineteenth edition of Great
Encounters, Howard Reich and William Gaines, authors of Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton, write about Morton and Louis Armstrong in Chicago, 1926
* "Between Two Wars," a poem by Kenneth Rexroth
* Bunny M's farewell Accent on Youth column is called "Until We Meet Again..."
* Occasional Jazz Conjectures is the work of Tim DuRoche, a weekly column of casual, thematic riffs on jazz
* Pianist Lenore Raphael is profiled in "Today's Artists"
* From the archives...In a 2001 interview, Albert Murray talks about his friendship with Ralph Ellison, their collective literary mentors, and their view of bebop and the arts
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Coming Soon
* A conversation with Nat Hentoff, the first jazz critic ever named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts
* Chuck Haddix, author of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop - A History
* Ben Green, author of Spinning the Globe, on the Harlem Globetrotters
* The debut of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion
* New Short Fiction Contest winning story
...and lots more in the
works...
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* New Short Fiction Contest details
* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues
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Many thanks to those who have made financial contributions to Jerry Jazz Musician
Jerry Jazz
Musician
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This issue is published in memory of Patricia Chapman, 1941 - 2005
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