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Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good article by Con Chapman, published on July 6, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Book Excerpts articles
This is American Routes Live with Don Vappie and friends. Don is from a New Orleans Creole family and is a studied purveyor of jazz banjo. He knows much about the history of the music and the instrument, going back to origins in West Africa. I asked Don about New Orleans banjo players.
One from the archive: Bass Player’s July 1991 profile of legendary jazz bassist Charlie Hayden
Freddie Green is synonymous with swing guitar. Green enjoyed a 50-year career holding down the rhythm chair of Count Basie’s famed big band.
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 ph...