* Announcing a great opportunity for young writers: Gary Giddins and Dee Dee Bridgewater are the judges in the "Accent on Youth" column essay competitionDetails
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Newly Published
on Jerry Jazz Musician
* The debut of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion, in which Jason Moran, James Carter, Terry Teachout, Dan Morgenstern and others answer the question, "What is the greatest saxophone solo in the history of jazz?"
* An interview with Ben Green, author of Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters -- including sound samples of over thirty versions of "Sweet Georgia Brown"
* Carole Bugge of New York City is the winner of the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest. Her story is called "Uncle Evil Eye"
* In the twenty-first edition of Great
Encounters, Peter Levinson, author of Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way, writes about Dorsey's influence on Frank Sinatra
*Jerry Jazz Musician and Candlewick Press present "Jazz ABZ," a gallery of impressions and text from the colorful book of the same name that features the poetry of Wynton Marsalis, the art of Paul Rogers, and the jazz history of Phil Schaap -- as well as sound samples of the featured musicians
* "Scarecrow Gardens," a poem by Madeline DeFrees
* The Art Gallery offers a large selection of unique gift ideas, from $30 and up
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* From the archives...In a 2003 interview,
Rosa Parks biographer Douglas Brinkley talks about the life of the woman whose act of civil disobedience changed the world
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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 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
* 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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Coming Soon
* Conversations with Gary Giddins...a talk about New Orleans -- its music and musicians, its history, its place in our future
* Civil liberties and jazz -- the passions of journalist Nat Hentoff
* Chuck Haddix, author of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop - A History
* Tommy Dorsey biographer Peter Levinson
* Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion --
"What musical recording(s) changed your life?" Fred Hersch, Dianne Reeves, Joshua Redman, Francis Davis and others respond
...and lots more in the
works...
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* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues
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Jerry Jazz
Musician
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This issue is published in memory of Patricia Chapman, 1941 - 2005
