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The Fred Taylor Book at Last?
One year ago, I submitted the manuscript and artwork for the Fred Taylor book, What, and Give up Showbiz? to its...
Nat Hentoff: Remembering a Boston Boy
“Whaddya need? I’m on a deadline.” Thus would begin my first phone conversations with Nat Hentoff, the jazz lover,...
Dec 29, 1949: Down Beat, DeFranco, and Fiedler
Sometimes it’s all about the buzz, and so it was at the Hi-Hat on December 29, 1949. Buddy DeFranco was in town for a...
ASRC Certificate of Merit for The Boston Jazz Chronicles
It was Detroit's year, not Boston's, in the jazz category of the 2013 Association for Recorded Sound Collection...
August 30, 2006: The Album Covers of Burt Goldblatt
The multitalented Burt Goldblatt was born in Dorchester in 1924, and was residing in Hopkinton, Mass., at the time of...