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"Mississippi," by Olivier Boissinot
 Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out
blossoms.
- Mark Twain _____
Best wishes for peace and health in the new year...
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On behalf of all our subscribers, we have made a donation to the Jazz Musicians' Emergency Fund
* 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
* Civil Liberties and Jazz -- Past, Present and Future...A conversation with journalist Nat Hentoff
* The second edition of Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion, in which Fred Hersch, Dianne Reeves, Julian Bond, Jim Hall, Joshua Redman and others answer the question, "What musical recording(s) changed your life?"
* An interview with Chuck Haddix, author of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop -- A History
* In the twenty-second edition of Great
Encounters, Peter Guralnick, author of Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, writes about the interconnected lives of Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, and Sam Cooke at the time of the Clay/Sonny Liston fight in Miami, 1964
* "Back to the Valley," a poem by David Lee
* Guitarist Joshua Breakstone is featured in "Today's Artists"
* The Art Gallery offers a large selection of unique gift ideas, from $30 and up
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* From the archives...In a 2002 interview,
Carla Kaplan, editor of
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, talks about one of the most brilliant contributors to American letters
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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
* 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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Coming Soon
* Conversations with Gary Giddins...A talk about New Orleans -- its music and musicians, its history, its place in our future
* Tommy Dorsey biographer Peter Levinson
* Sam Cooke biographer Peter Guralnick
* Reminiscing in Tempo: Memories and Opinion --
"What recording session do you wish you could have witnessed?" Participants include, among others, Herman Leonard, Lalo Schifrin, David Liebman, Doug Ramsey, and Buddy Bregman
...and lots more in the
works...
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* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues
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Many thanks to those who have made financial contributions to Jerry Jazz Musician, and to those who forward this newsletter to interested readers
Jerry Jazz
Musician
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This issue is published in memory of Patricia Chapman, 1941 - 2005
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