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Jazz writer, historian, radio personality and critic...

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Women in Jazz: Some Observations Regarding the Ongoing Discrimination in Performance and Journalism

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A New History of Jazz, Alyn Shipton (review)

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Cover photos: Jackie McLean by Ken Franckling Diana Krall by Laurence M. Svirchev

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Living the Jazz Life Reviewed on NPR

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Book Signing Party Celebrates Royal's Latest Book at Borders! 

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

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