Monthly Archives: July 2011

Writer Greg Thomas discusses his current series on Race & Jazz

To loosely paraphrase an age-old bromide, Know and recognize the truth and the truth will set you free. The only way to defeat racism is to recognize it’s existence and confront it head on. That my friends is one of … Continue reading

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The Black jazz audience… a different experience for the artist?

Continuing our series of Weeksville Heritage Center interviews with jazz Brooklynites and those musicians and other jazz folk who lived for significant periods in the borough and either created or were a part of Brooklyn’s jazz scene, we turn to … Continue reading

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ADDENDUM to Who Shot Miles

Had a recent conversation with an anonymous source very close to such information and here’s a further take on the subject of who shot Miles Davis following that fateful (see below) gig at the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn. Make of … Continue reading

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Willard Jenkins, The Independent Ear, NOW TWEETING AT @indyear

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