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About W. Royal Stokes Jazz writer, historian, radio personality and critic...  Go to bio...  Contact	Library COMMENTARY Women in Jazz: Some Observations Regarding the Ongoing Discrimination in Performance and Journalism FESTIVAL REVIEWS 2002 FESTIVAL NOTES & PHOTOS ASCONA 2002 & UMBRIA 2002 Ascona, Switzerland Ascona 2001 Festival Notes and Pictures Perugia, Italy UMBRIA 2001 photos by Giancarlo Belfiroe Ascona and Umbria 2000 Jazz Festival Reviews RECORDINGS REVIEWS Review of Tommy Cecil: Samba for Felix Review of Credence Clearwater Revival RECENT ARTICLES ON JAZZHOUSE.ORG: A New History of Jazz, Alyn Shipton (review)  Display all articles on JAZZHOUSE.ORG (must scroll down to "Stokes")
New!   More about Growing Up with Jazz Cover photos: Jane Monheit  by Enid Farber Art Blakey by Ken Franckling  Order Growing Up with Jazz Now!	Cover photos: Jackie McLean by Ken Franckling Diana Krall by Laurence M. Svirchev More about Living the Jazz Life Living the Jazz Life Reviewed on NPR Order Living the Jazz Life now... .	Book Signing Party at D.C.’s Border’s Celebrates Royal's Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz (Oxford University Press, 2000) Featured in the Washington D.C. store's Jazz Conversations series, Royal was interviewed by poet and Smithsonian jazz archivist, Rubin Jackson. Two jazz musicians profiled in the book, tenor saxophonist Ron Holloway and pianist John Eaton.provided music to an overflow audience along with bassist Steve Novosel pianist Harry Appelman and drummer Mike Smith. Other Books by W. Royal Stokes The Jazz Scene Swing Era New York Growing Up With Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk About Their Lives and Careers (Oxford University Press, 2005 and paperback reprint, 2008) Go to books...

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