W. Royal Stokes has posted his annual roundup of music-and-culture-related books he received from publishers in 2016. He has annotated each of…
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His lyrics, initially inspired by Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and Hank Williams and defying the conventions of pop music, have incorporated political,…
MoreOver the course of three decades, the Jazz Journalists Association has developed from being a loose coalition of like-minded professional writers, photographers…
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My friendship with Paul Blair, who died on December 6, began in the early 1980s when we were both living and working in…
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At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene By Nat Hentoff (Foreword by Lewis Porter) University of California Press,…
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Jazz Notes: Interviews across the Generations By Sanford Josephson Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2009; 207 pp.; $49.95 hardcover This is a collection…
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