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Chuck Stewart And Ed Berger, RIP
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Two non-musicians prominent in the US jazz community have died in the past week. One was a photographer whose images are among the most prominent in jazz history. Chuck Stewart’s intimate work appeared on dozens of album covers and in magazines. He was 89. Among his most familiar photographs were those of John Coltrane. Stewart took the one below at a recording session for Coltrane’s album A Love Supreme. In a New York Times interview, Fellow photographer Carol Friedman said ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: A Conversation With Benny Carter Biographer Ed Berger
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Don Mopsick
This week Riverwalk Jazz recalls the 9-decade career of saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and arranger Benny Carter with music and memories from the maestro himself and an interview with Ed Berger, Associate Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Berger was Carter’s road manager and one of the authors of the definitive biography, Benny Carter: A Life in American Music. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be ...
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Ed Berger
