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STOKES W. Royal Stokes, 90, an award-winning jazz journalist and author who worked to expand opportunities for women in jazz, died Saturday of myelodysplastic syndrome, a condition related to leukemia. Stokes died at home in Elkins, West Virginia, in the presence of family and with the music of Bunk Johnson playing quietly in the background. Stokes was born in Washington, D.C., in 1930. He grew up in homes in D.C. and Baltimore and on Gibson Island, Maryland, where at the age of 13 he heard his first boogie-woogie piano 78s and began his lifelong devotion to jazz music. In 1948, Stokes graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in D.C. Later that year, he enlisted in the Army, taking advantage of a one-year enlistment option available only to 18-year-olds, and was assigned to a field artillery brigade based at Fort Lewis. ....
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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 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 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 3of5 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 betw ....