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Jimmy Harrison

Born: October 17, 1900

Don Redman: Setting the Template

by Jim Gerard
May 29, 2012

As someone who came to jazz as a young man in the 1970s, I can attest that subsequent generations of both its chroniclers and, even sadder, its practitioners, have succumbed to the peculiarly and regrettable American disease of a-historicism. They've shoved jazz history through a sieve, reducing it from an epic tale of heroic ...