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Tristano: An Unpublished Interview Transcript (+Bonus)+New Postscript!
(A short funny new postscript is at the bottom!)
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Monk: He Played the Harmonica; & A Mystery Melody SOLVED
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom you will find an entire page of a Black newspaper from 1930, with news about a racist lawsuit, an all-Black opera…
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Paul Simon: My Surprising Story About Him And Charles Hamm (+Bonus);+ NEW POSTSCRIPT!
See the new postscript at the bottom—very short and very funny!
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Jimmie Blanton: Recordings BEFORE Ellington! Guest Post by Matthias Heyman, 2 of 2 (+Bonus Recordings)
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom you’ll find all four recordings by the Jeter-Pillars band with Blanton!
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Jimmie Blanton: Photo & Recordings BEFORE Ellington! Guest Post by Matthias Heyman, 1 of 2 (+Bonus Article)
(Dear Paying Subscribers, at the end you’ll find a rare interview with a friend of Blanton that gives a rare impression of what the bassist was like as…
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January 2025

Amiri Baraka Talks About Sun Ra, Dr. King, Malcolm X, & Poetry, + Photo, 2 of 2
Last time we heard the first hour of Amiri Baraka speaking with me and my grad students, from October 29, 2010.
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Amiri Baraka Talks With Me & Grad Students About Jazz, Dr. King, Malcolm X, & More, 1 of 2
Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) was a celebrated poet, a playwright, a founder of the Black Arts Movement, and a prolific and influential writer on jazz.
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Gigi Gryce: Unknown Audio Interviews Alone and with Art Farmer (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers: Thanks to researcher and jazz theorist Masaya Yamaguchi, your gift at the bottom is a fascinating and rare Gryce sheet music folio…
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Ella Fitzgerald: Improvisations on "Take the 'A' Train", 2 of 2
The previous essay and this one make up a “master class” on improvisation: Five performances by Ella Fitzgerald of Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the ‘A…
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Ella Fitzgerald: Improvisations on "Take the 'A' Train", 1 of 2
This essay and the next one make up a “master class” on improvisation: Five performances by Ella Fitzgerald of Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the ‘A’ Train…
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December 2024

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