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Arnold Jay Smith is an adjunct professor of jazz history at New Jersey City University. He is formerly writer of the OctoJAZZarians column for Jazz.com and former treasurer of the JJA.

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Alyn Shipton’s Cab Calloway, reviewed

January 6, 2011

Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway By Alyn Shipton Oxford University Press, New York, 2010; 304 pp.; $29.95 hardcover Review by arnold…

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Tom Nolan’s Artie Shaw, Reviewed

July 18, 2010

Three Chords for Beauty’s Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw By Tom Nolan W. W. Norton, New York, 2010; 430 pp.; $29.95…

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Jazz Awards Postgame: Must We Always Be Conflicted?

June 17, 2010

The JJA Jazz Awards were held on the same day and time as ASCAP’s 2010 Jazz Wall of Fame event. Whose announcement…

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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

May 26, 2010

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong By Terry Teachout Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston/New York, 2009; 496 pp.; $30 hardcover If we subscribe…

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Highlights In Jazz: 38 Years of Jazz History, Closing Up Shop

May 14, 2010

For the past 38 years, Jack Kleinsinger was impresario and host of “Highlights In Jazz,” a moveable fete of jazz luminaries presented…

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