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Jazz for Curious Readers
Roger Pryor Dodge: Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance - POSTPONED
June 20, 2011

This event has been postponed.

Dodge, a ballet, vaudeville and jazz dancer who died in 1974, began to write critical essays assessing jazz and its place in the history of American music in the 1920s for periodicals such as Jazz Magazine, Jazz Monthly and Record Changer. This collection, edited by his musician son, spans 35 years of his writings and contains his thoughts on the condition and status of jazz, the prospects for its future development, the performers, the merits of various jazz critics and the relationship of jazz to dance. A few observations on classical music, appreciations of dancers (such as Markova, Alonso and Nijinsky) and a selection of his record reviews are included. Come discover an unsung figure as his son sings his father’s praises.

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