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Some Milestones: 200 Essays So Far, an Index, and Another National Award
I’ve just been notified that another of my articles has won the national 2024 ASCAP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the pop…
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The Word "Jazz," 5—The Word Spreads to Music, & Tom Brown's Story (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom is a rare print interview with trombonist Tom Brown.)
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October 2024

Eddie South and Milt Hinton: An Unknown 1933 Recording with a Great Backstory. Guest Post by Anthony Barnett
[Anthony Barnett is a poet, editor of the literary and arts print journal Snow lit rev, and a jazz historian specializing in violinists who has…
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Art Tatum: An Unknown Version of "Yesterdays" (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom you’ll find your latest “thank you” gift—a 240-page collection of songs.
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The Word "Jazz," 4 of 7: "Scoop" Gleeson's Limited Role
(For the previous essays in this series, see the Index.)
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Sonny Rollins and Sonny Clark: Unissued Outtakes, 4 of 4 (+Bonus Freedom Suite Notation)
(Paying Subscribers.
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Sonny Rollins and Sonny Clark: Unissued Outtakes, 3
We continue now listening to the “session reel” (the unedited recordings, in order) from the only studio meeting of Sonny Rollins and pianist Sonny…
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September 2024

The Word "Jazz," 3 of 7: Bandleader Art Hickman, and More Word Meanings
In our first two explorations of the word “jazz” (see the Index) we’ve learned that it developed from “jasm” aka “jazzum,” that it was first used among…
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Duke Ellington: An Unknown Audio Conversation with Leonard Feather,2 of 2 (Audio Fixed)
Last time, we heard the first 20 minutes of this conversation.
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Duke Ellington: An Unknown Audio Conversation with Leonard Feather,1 (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom you will find a scan of Inez Cavanaugh’s notes to Ellington’s 78 rpm set, and some of the story behind it.)
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The Word "Jazz," 2: Issues Around Dates, Meanings, & More (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom you’ll find the first-ever article about the word “jazz,” plus the surrounding articles from that newspaper page of…
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Dan Morgenstern (1929-2024): On Film!
I want to quickly say just a few words about Dan Morgenstern, who died in a hospital here in Manhattan on Saturday September 7, at the age of 94.
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