This month's cover story
Thanksgiving Jazz in San Diego
Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival: Multi-talented Katie Cavera was one of the musical ladies enhancing the exciting jazz and ragtime offerings at the 28th annual holiday bash in San Diego, Calif. That's Pete Lay on drums. (Photo: Andrew Wittenborn.)

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February Highlights

Patricia Lamb Conn

The daughter of one of ragtime's top three composers keeps his legacy as a revered ragtimer and a loving father alive.

by Fred Hoeptner
 

Randy's Scrapbook: Jazz, Inc.

This month's collection of historic photos documents the early years of Woody Herman's Orchestra, a cooperative band that thrived under Herman's 50-year leadership.

 

Wizards from Oz

Michael Steinman covers Australia's Nif Nuf label in one of several tantalizing CD and book reviews by our fine reviewers.

 

Passing it on in New Orleans

Dave Robinson visits New Orleans to share TJEN's Jazz Curriculum Kit and talk to the city's jazz educators.

 
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