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W. Royal Stokes has lived a jazz life as unpredictable as the music
Chris Richards, The Washington Post
Feb. 26, 2021
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1of5Jazz critic W. Royal Stokes at a 2005 book reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D..C.Erika HartmannShow MoreShow Less
2of5 The Essential W. Royal Stokes Jazz, Blues and Beyond Reader is out now.W. Royal StokesShow MoreShow Less
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4of5W. Royal Stokes. a champion of women in jazz, wrote several profiles of female performers, including pianist Shirley Horn, photographed in 2004 with bassist Ed Howard.Washington Post photo by Dudley M. BrooksShow MoreShow Less
5of5 One foot back in the past, one foot into the future. That s how the critic W. Royal Stokes describes the way he hears jazz after living 90 years on this dizzy planet - and it makes for a pretty good description of how we experience life, too. It s a continuity, a perpetual improvisation, a negotiation between what we know and what we don