Author Archives: Richard Guzman

Un-Blue Jazz: Remembering Dave Brubeck

For me the two coolest instrumentals to ever make the pop charts are “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MG’s. They’ve always been a pair for me, bookends, so I’ve thought … Continue reading

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Takers, Makers, and the Fiscal Cliff

No person, no organization, is without its paradoxes and contradictions.  In fact, these often make the person, the organization, more interesting and intriguing.  By this standard—though our President and his party have plenty of paradox and contradiction about them—few persons … Continue reading

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Carolyn Rodgers’ Foreword to Black Writing from Chicago

In 2005 Carolyn Rodgers agreed to write a Foreword to my book Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? which came out the following year.  Gracious to me in print as she was in person, her words not only … Continue reading

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