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HELLO FRIENDS and WELCOME! I have LOTS of never-published research on everyone from Jelly Roll Morton through Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and beyond. I am now posting these items frequently in the form of a Substack email newsletter.
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Bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922-1979) was a brilliant, witty, and difficult person. His letters are typically very rich, and layered with…
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Paying Subscribers, you can see the original newspaper page at the very bottom.
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(Paying Subscribers, as usual your bonus is at the very bottom—the second article ever published about Shorter.) In Part 1 and Part 2, I gave you the…
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One could say that Duke Ellington (1899-1974) devoted his entire career to celebrating Black people and Black life in music. But, like many Black…
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(Paying Subscribers, at the very bottom you will find the very first article that was ever published about Wayne, from 1959.) Last time I told you more…
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Every Film Clip of Charlie Parker, 5A—A Better Version of the Silent OuttakesWatch now (4 min) | Some people found that the silent portion of the outtakes starting at 5:30 did not play. So here it is as a separate clip. This…
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Coleman Hawkins: A Silent 1950 Outtake for Paying SubscribersWatch now (2 min) | Hello Friends! I continue to thank you for your support. Here is the Hawkins footage from the 1950 film shoot with Bird. It is about…
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