Summer Reading List 2021
Mingus Speaks by John Goodman, Mister Jelly Roll by Alan Lomax, The Man That Got Away by Walter Rilmer, Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West by Phil Pastras
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The seldom-discussed stories of three ragtime pioneers
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The American railroad system as a driving force for cultural exchange
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A close look at a Lou Donaldson solo transcription and how it relates to moments in jazz history
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Lou Donaldson, Louis Armstrong, Roy Hargrove, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman
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Summer reading — Duke Ellington, Jane H. Hill, Gunther Schuller, bell hooks, Joshua Berrett
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Henry Godfrey, Takuma Matsui, Frank Carlberg & Ran Blake, Lolivone De La Rosa, Jacob Moore
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