This continues my recollections and observations of John Hammond. If you wish to read it from the beginning, click here for Part I . It ...

My cousin Ann and I were the same age, but we grew up in very different environments. My mother's four husbands ranged from my fath...

One day in the late Sixties, when I was working on Bessie Smith reissues and writing her biography, Alberta Hunter and I decided to mee...

This is the second and concluding part of a recollection that begins here . We were about twenty minutes into the marathon, begging for mon...

I turned on my radio yesterday and what do you know? WBAI is having another fund-raising marathon. Yes, they are back selling miracle medi...