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Book Review: Ain’t But A Few Of Us (Black Music Writers Tell Their Story) edited by Willard Jenkins

In all my years as a jazz writer, web editor and record company executive, I’ve only had three Black colleagues. A lamentable state of affairs, but very common in the jazz world. The music’s innovators and performers have been African-American but the overwhelming majority of journalists, photographers and record executives continue to be white men. […]