From the July 2018 Issue A Dandy in Harlem The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke By Jeffrey C Stewart LR
From the October 2016 Issue Innovators & Impresarios Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J Gleason Interviews By Toby Gleason (ed) Jazz Worlds/World Jazz By Philip V Bohlman & Goffredo Plastino LR
From the June 2015 Issue Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday: The Musician & the Myth By John Szwed LR
From the August 2011 Issue Across 110th Street Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts LR
From the December 2010 Issue Folk Hero The Man Who Recorded the World: A Biography of Alan Lomax By John Szwed LR
From the May 2010 Issue A Kind Of Blues Jazz By Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux Duke Ellington’s America By Harvey G Cohen LR
From the March 2014 Issue Both Sides of the Tracks Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism By Thomas Brothers Duke: The Life of Duke Ellington By Terry Teachout LR
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