Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with *London-based Author & Journalist *Mike Gerber on the 2024 Book Kosher Jammers .. We caught up with this veteran and esteemed jazz journalist to talk about his new book, how it came about, his life in journalist and much more. Besides drawing on a plethora of second-hand sources, Kosher Jammers is packed with first-hand material, from interviews, phone calls and emails with jazz figures, Jewish and otherwise. It includes one of the last ever interviews with swing era icon Artie Shaw. The impact on jazz of tunes written by Jewish "Great American Songbook" composers such as George Gershwin, Harold Arlen and Johnny Green are monumental and explored in full. Dig this revealing interview.
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