On Juneteenth

On JuneteenthWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. All too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long

combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role

Yet the biggest attraction on the 1961 effort comes via the double-bass interplay between Art Davis and Reggie Workman

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his personal doubts and fears

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the often-ignored partnerships of the senior set

and in autumn he returned to the New York studios and saw the producer Teo Macero

bereavements and changes in personnel both on stage and off – Charlie remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones

shimmering and amoral tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera