Gwen Ansell
Gwen’s Contributions
January/February 2006 Books
Valaida: A Novel
Candace Allen
Some cried racism when Dave Douglas based an album on the works of Mary Lou Williams and won more accolades for it than she had seen in her whole lifetime. Not surprisingly, any discussion of sexism was far more muted. Jazz has very successfully naturalized...
July/August 2004 Hearsay
Louis Mhlanga
Guitarist Louis Mhlanga's story might almost be the story of the instrument he plays. The lanky, soft-spoken player is a South African, but he was raised in Zimbabwe ("Listening to rock 'n' roll and Jimi Hendrix," he says, "and a lot of Congolese music...
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