JOHN LEVY
Legendary Manager and Jazz Bassist

NEA Jazz Master John Levy celebrated his 96th birthday in April 2008. “Strollin’: A Jazz Life Through John Levy’s Personal Lens” is a high-quality soft-cover coffee table book of exquisite photos interspersed with John’s memories and vignettes that celebrate his long life in jazz. If you read “Men, Women, and Girl Singers” you won’t want to miss this sequel, a more personal trip down memory lane, or more accurately, through personal photo albums spanning decades in jazz. Most of the photographs were shot by John, some by his wife and author, Devra Hall Levy, and a small smattering by professional photographers including a section featuring Leroy Hamilton’s 2006 NEA Jazz Master pictures.

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DEVRA HALL
Biographer and Nonfiction Writer

Devra Hall is researching the life of jazz and Broadway maestro Luther Henderson. Once known as Duke Ellington’s “classical arm,” Henderson was also Lena Horne’s musical director and the man behind the music of many Broadway shows. Look over her shoulder while she researches and writes “Seeking Harmony” for publication by Scarecrow Press.

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Devra recently began work on a memoir. Still in the planning stages, she plans to have the proposal in her agent’s hands by year-end.

The project that was to have been underway, has moved to the back-burner for the time being. “Neighborhood Narratives” — a series of short true-stories that take place close to home. Devra has long been compiling a file of article ideas about the quirky people and places in her vicinity and she’s looking forward to sharing them with you when he picks this idea back up next year.