November 2016

Features

The Hampton sisters

Remembering Dawn Hampton

The swing and Lindy Hop community lost one of its great leaders when Dawn Hampton passed away September 25, 2016. Dawn, a musician, dancer, writer,

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Columns

Randi Cee
Randi Cee

New Orleans on Impulse

The trip to New Orleans shouldn’t have happened. I had no business traveling anywhere. My checking account is on life support. I was sitting on

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Jazz Jottings
Lew Shaw

Jazz Jottings November 2016

Those happy bells you heard ringing on September 10 were actually wedding bells for our gal Bria Skonberg and Matthew Papper, the artistic director for

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Danny Coots, Andy, Brian Holland
Festival Roundup
Russ Tarby

The Festival Roundup November 2016

ARIZONA CLASSIC JAZZ FESTIVAL. (Chandler, Ariz.) – Nov. 3-6. Staged at the classy Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort in Chandler, Ariz., the 27th annual

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Coleman Hawkins
Jazz Birthday
Andy Senior

Coleman Randolph Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on November 21, 1904. He played cello and piano from childhood but at the age of

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Dog Radio Pipe
Static From My Attic
Andy Senior

When are you?

Unless you’ve been in a medically-induced coma for a year or two, you will have noted that the times are, as the supposed Chinese curse

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News and More

Vintage Radio

A Spin of the Dial

I found it on the AM dial. A Hollywood cowboy mimicking the distinctive Alpine sound of the Moser Brothers, a wildly popular touring group of

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Reviews

Nights at the Turntable

Ethan Uslan • By The Sea

Ethan Uslan • By The Sea

Ethan Uslan, who had recorded two previous CDs for Rivermont, is a classically-trained pianist who in college switched permanently to syncopated music. He plays both

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Vickers

The Final Chorus

Buckwheat_Zydeco

Buckwheat Zydeco has died

STANLEY “Buckwheat” DURAL, Jr., 68, from lung cancer on Sept. 24 in Lafayette, Louisiana. One of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success, he

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Table of Contents

Vol.1, No.10 November 2016
On the Cover

Baby Soda: Bringing Hot Jazz to the People, by Russ Tarby

Features

The Future of Jazz Festivals: Attracting a Younger Audience, by Joe Smith

Ragtime Reflections, by Brian Holland

Thailand’s Jazz-Loving King Dies at 88, by Lew Shaw & Richard Simon

Remembering Dawn Hampton, by Stephanie Robinson

Joey Alexander: Jazz’s Newest Sensation, by Lew Shaw

Marilyn Keller’s Musical Journey, an interview with Tony Welch

Reviews

Nights at the Turntable, by Scott Yanow

The Candy Men, review by F. Norman Vickers

Columns

Jazz Birthday of the Month: Coleman Hawkins, illustration by Gary Price

Static from my Attic, by Andy Senior

Final Chorus, compiled by Lew Shaw

Jazz Jottings, by Lew Shaw

The Professor is IN, by Adrian Cunningham

Jazz Travels, by Bill Hoffman

Blowing off the Dust, by Larry Melton

New Orleans: Part One, by Randi Cee

Festival Roundup, compiled by Russ Tarby

Other News

Ragtimers Celebrate Larry Karp’s Life, Larry Melton

Centenary Fund for Scott Joplin Memorial, Press Release

Peter Ford’s Box Bass, by Russ Tarby

I’m Alive!!, by Flip Oakes

David Sager Highlights Foo Foo Fest, by F. Norman Vickers

Artist Carolyn Newberger Captures Jazz in Motion, Gallery

Horace Meunier Harris Obituary, by Andy Senior

“Coat Show” (poem) by Andy Senior

A Spin of the Dial, by Joe Bebco

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