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Charles Boles Looks Back
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I had a wonderful, hourlong conversation yesterday with Detroit pianist Charles Boles. Boles attended Northern High School with Paul Chambers,...
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What Happened to The Big Band and Tentet CDs?
After last week's stimulating experience interviewing Detroit pianist Charles Boles, this week was pretty sleepy by comparison. I did exchange emails with Chip McNeill at the University of Illinois...
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Tony Inzalaco Interview
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.In the 1960s, New Jersey born and bred Tony Inzalaco was an in-demand drummer on the New York City jazz scene. In 1968, he left for Europe, where...
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50 Years at the Vanguard, Part 1
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Fifty days is a long time to keep a jazz gig. How about fifty years? The amazing big band that performs every Monday night at the Village...
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Lecture Notes
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I was off for much of the week, enjoying a few rounds of golf with a good friend. Because of that, the second part of my review of 50 Years at...
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Reader Responses
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I want to thank Jon Wheatley and Kevin Goss for their perceptive Facebook replies last week. I hope others feel free to reply to future posts, if...
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Pepper Adams Film
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I had a wonderful trip to Utah in late March, early April. It gave me another chance to spread the word about Pepper Adams. On my flight out, my...
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Utah State Does It The Right Way
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I arrived in Logan, Utah on a Monday, just before dinner. Logan is a college town, the home of Utah State University. The drive north from Salt...
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Researching Utah Gigs
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Here’s a snapshot of how some of my days go by when tracking down Pepper Adams data. Look at the volume of correspondence below to simply try to...
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50 Years at the Village Vanguard, Part 2
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.On March 6 I began writing about 50 Years at the Village Vanguard, Dave Lisik and Eric Allen's extraordinary contribution to jazz literature. My...
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Pepper Adams Biography
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Happy Mother's Day to everyone in the U.S. Woefully, mine passed away seven years ago. Life hasn't been the same since, but it rolls on...
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To Write or Not to Write: That Is the Question
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I hope everyone had a great week. I took the week off from writing the Pepper Adams biography to catch my breath, instead go through scads of...
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Love Letters
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Much of my week was spent reading hundreds of letters that Pepper Adams kept and I scopped up at the time of his death. Many of them are from...
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Detroit Cats and Clubs
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Here's some random historical information about Detroit's jazz history that I've collected from my many Pepper Adams interviews. It pertains...
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Detroit Groove: Al McKibbon
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I'm very pleased and genuinely excited to report that I've finished the first chapter of Pepper Adams' biography. I've been building to this...
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Paternal Genealogy
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Happy Father's Day to everybody in the U.S. I wasn't anticipating starting Chapter Two of the Pepper Adams biography this past week. I started...
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Pepper Biography News
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Somehow this past week I wrote a complete first draft of Chapter 2 of Pepper's biography. I had so many pages of notes from other times that I...
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Pepper Adams, 1947
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.I stepped back from writing this week, partly because I wanted some perspective, mostly because I attended a training program for work. I did...
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Pepper Gets His Selmer and Berg Larsen
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.Welcome back to the Pepper Adams blog. The reason I moved to a once-a-month posting schedule is because I started a new gig in early July with a...
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Biographical Excerpts
© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.It's Labor Day Weekend but it seems that my Pepper work never takes a break. It's what centers me and pulls me through each day. There's just so...
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