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Philadelphia Jazz

Philadelphia Jazz

Philly, a hard bop town, captured in images and descriptive chapters of the scene.

2022

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Age of Awareness

Losing History and the Philadelphia Inquirer Isn’t Helping

A recent article on the Coltrane House by reporter Valerie Russ had many errors and was full of bias, which astounded me…

3 min readSep 6, 2022

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Losing History and the Philadelphia Inquirer Isn’t Helping

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Age of Awareness

Worrying About Another Trump Administration — Can Stormy Save Us?

I am so, so sick of Donald Trump. His malevolent presence is everywhere —

5 min read6 days ago

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Worrying About Another Trump Administration — Can Stormy Save Us?

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Why Are We Supporting Ukraine’s Fight? (And Why Did my Childhood Friend Go There?)

My mother used to love telling me how I met Will. We were new neighbors in a spanking, brand new, post-World War II subdivision in Southern…

7 min readMay 26, 2023

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Why Are We Supporting Ukraine’s Fight? (And Why Did my Childhood Friend Go There?)

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Exempted from regulations too? Oh, gee. what could go wrong?

1 min readNov 11, 2021

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You hit the nail on the head, Kate.

1 min readNov 7, 2021

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The End of a Gig

“I got your number from Tyrone. Can you fill in this Friday? I need a drummer just for the first set.”

5 min readJun 4, 2021

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The End of a Gig

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Very thoughtful and enlightening essay, Steve QJ.

1 min readApr 1, 2021

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Age of Awareness

It began again a few weeks back — mad scrambles by terrified jazz folks pulling their hair out…

I met Cousin Mary Alexander (John Coltrane’s cousin famous for the composition “Cousin Mary” he wrote for her), who lived in and preserved…

7 min readMar 10, 2021

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It began again a few weeks back — mad scrambles by terrified jazz folks pulling their hair out…

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You're definitely scary, Kurt, so I'm following.

1 min readFeb 13, 2021

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Philadelphia Jazz Dynasty — Albert “Tootie” Heath

By Suzanne Cloud

5 min readJan 24, 2021

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Philadelphia Jazz Dynasty — Albert “Tootie” Heath

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Suzanne Cloud

Suzanne Cloud

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Writer, historian, jazz singer-songwriter, PhD American Studies. Author of Images of America: Philadelphia Jazz and the play “Last Call at the Downbeat”

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