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Jerry Jazz Musician Newsletter

January, 2006

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

- William Wordsworth

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photo Herman Leonard

Gary Giddins

This issue of the Jerry Jazz Musician newsletter is devoted to announcing the latest edition of "Conversation with Gary Giddins." In an enlightening, passionate conversation, Giddins -- for many years the country's most eminent jazz critic -- discusses the beginnings of jazz in New Orleans, its prominent figures, and what needs to be done to properly market jazz in a city that has contributed so much toward shaping the soul of America. The conversation is the first of three Jerry Jazz Musician features on New Orleans to be published in the coming weeks.

From our previous issue

* Announcing a great opportunity for young writers: Gary Giddins and Dee Dee Bridgewater are the judges in the "Accent on Youth" column essay competition. Entry deadline is January 31.

Details

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* 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

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...

Coming Soon

* 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, Jane Ira Bloom, Ingrid Jensen and Buddy Bregman

...and lots more in the works...

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* Jerry Jazz Musician back issues

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