James Gavin
James’s Contributions
May 2004 Overdue Ovation
Patty Waters: Priestess of the Avant-Garde
Just before midnight on a chilly evening last May, a black-robed priestess stood before a congregation of two hundred in New York's Little Italy. Raising a frail, ghostly voice, she led people willingly into a dark corner of their souls. They stared at her...
December 2001 Features
Homophobia in Jazz
A few years back, I visited a jazz pianist who had made his mark in the ’70s with a reflective series of albums on the ECM label. This was one of my first interviews for a now-finished biography of his former employer, Chet Baker [out in April 2002 from...
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