(November 1997)
Dark Horse,
1997 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 2.95 USD; 4.15 CAD
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dark Horse Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Dark Horse Comics [chess piece]
- Barcode
- 6156897513
- Editing
- Diana Schutz (editor); Davey Estrada (assistant editor); Mike Richardson (publisher)
- Color
- Color cover; black and white interior
- Dimensions
- Standard Modern Age U. S.
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- One-Shot
Music Comics
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I can give you four L.P.s of your choice or $50 for that art ensemble album
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; man
- Synopsis
- Harvey is trading L.P.s with another man
- Keywords
- Art Ensemble; money; music
Introduction
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, music lovers...
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar
- Synopsis
- Harvey explains that this comic contains a collection of comics he has written (mostly about music) since 1990, many of them previously published in other magazines.
- Keywords
- music; Village Voice
[no title indexed]
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The way I got into jazz was weird.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Aaron
- Synopsis
- How Harvey got into jazz.
- Keywords
- jazz; marriage; mentoring; relationships; trumpet
My Career Begins
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Back in the summer of '59 I was really at loose ends.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Ira Gitler; Harvey Pekar; Fats Navarro; Martin Williams
- Synopsis
- How Harvey's jazz writing career started.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- beatniks; black nationalism; Cafe Bizarre; Cleveland; criticism; jazz; Jazz Review; New York City
A Story About a Review
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The first writing I ever had published was about jazz.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Fats Navarro; Jabbo Smith; Django Reinhardt; Tristano
- Synopsis
- A continuation of the story of Harvey's jazz criticism career
- Reprints
- Keywords
- criticism; jazz
Indexer Notes
Jazz Review; Downbeat; jazz; Northern Ohio Live
Slim Gaillard
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Slim Gaillard could play a lot of instruments and was a "solid" Charlie Christian-influenced guitarist, but above all he was one of jazz's great comic vocalists.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Slim Gaillard; Slam Stuart; Cab Calloway; Dizzy Gillespie; Chuck Berry; Charlie Christian; Billy Eckstine; Count Basie; Jack Kerouac
- Synopsis
- An appreciation of jazz musician and vocalist Slim Gaillard.
- Keywords
- jazz; On the Road
Jabbo Smith
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jazz Archives has just released a two-CD set by Jabbo Smith containing almost all of his 1927–1938 recorded work.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Jabbo Smith; Milt Hinton; Dizzy Gillespie; Louis Armstrong; Roy Eldridge; Henry Allen; Duke Ellington; Fats Waller; Charlie Johnson; King Oliver; Jelly Roll Morton
- Synopsis
- An appreciation of jazz trumpeter Jabbo Smith.
- Keywords
- Decca; jazz; Jazz Archives; Jazz at Lincoln Center; Rhythm Aces; trumpet
Sheila Jordan
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "I don't care what I have to do."
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Sheila Jordan; Harvey Pekar; Cade Bursell; Charlie Parker; Duke Jordan; George Russell; Harvey Swartz
- Synopsis
- A biography and appreciation of jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan.
- Keywords
- Blue Note; Green Mill; Jazz Magazine; Johnstown Pennsylvania; Lambert Hendricks and Ross; marriage; New York; Skeeter Mitch and Jean; Summerhill Pennsylvania
Bill DeArango Remembers 52nd St.
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "When I was discharged from the army in 1944. I moved to New York."
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Bill DeArango; Morey Feld; Don Byas; Bob Crosby; Billy Butterfield; Ben Webster; Dizzy Gillespie; Sarah Vaughn, Red Norvo; Charlie Ventura; Kenny Werner
- Synopsis
- Jazz guitarist Bill DeArango tells how he got started.
- Keywords
- Army; jazz; Three Deuces
Teo Macero
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For over 25 years I've been going around with snatches of Teo Macero's music in my head...
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Teo Macero; John Lewis; Orlando Di Girolamo; Lenny Di Jay; Lester Young; Stan Getz; Albert Ayler; John Coltrane; Charlie Mingus; Mitch Miller; Miles Davis; Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk; J. J. Johnson; Andre Kostelanetz; Lionel Hampton; John Zorn; Dave Douglas; Anthony Coleman; Roy Nathanson; Mark Ribot; Michael Dorf; Artie Shaw
- Synopsis
- A biography of jazz musician Teo Macero, who later became an A&R man.
- Keywords
- Columbia Records; Guggenheim Grant; Hava Nagila; jazz; Knitting Factory; New York City; saxophone
Sun Ra
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In 1974, after visiting a buddy of mine in Chicago, I took a bus from there back to Cleveland.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Sun Ra; Harvey Pekar; Albert Ayler
- Keywords
- Chicago; Cleveland; jazz; Philadelphia; Sun Ra Arkestra; Toledo
Out of Williamsburg
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let me introduce Joe Maneri, a guy who 35 years ago, maybe earlier, was playing like the new musicians of today.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Joe Maneri; Paul Bley; George Russell; Josef Schmid; Alban Berg; Eric Leinsdorf; Gunther Schuller; Hankus Netsky; Ornette Coleman; John Coltrane; Matt Maneri; David Buchbinder
- Synopsis
- A biography of, and appreciation for, jazz musician Joe Maneri.
- Keywords
- Atlantic Records; Boston Symphony; clarinet; Flying Bulgar Band; Greek music; klezmer; Montreal Jazz Festival; New England Conservatory of Music; solfeggio; tenor saxophone; Toronto; violin; Williamsburg Brooklyn
A Rose for Greg Selker
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So Hankus Netsky, who was, like, a student teacher, plays me a big stack of 78s he founds in his uncle's attic.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; Hankus Netsky; Greg Selker; Frank London; Don Byron
- Synopsis
- Greg Selker tells Harvey about his origins as a jazz musician and what he's been up to recently.
- Keywords
- balafon; Boston; business; Canada; Cleveland; Cleveland Klezmorim; Cleveland State University; executive recruitment; Garuda; Golem; happiness; jazz; Kent State University; klezmer; Klezmer Conservatory Band; marimba; New England Conservatory of Music; travel
It Seems Like Only Yesterday
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My friend Robert Crumb lived in Cleveland off and on from 1962 to 1966.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Robert Crumb; Harvey Pekar; Victor Moscoso; Alan Freed; The Who; Magic Sam; James Cotton; Muddy Waters; Alberto Gianquinto; The Beatles; Pete Townsend; John Entwhistle; Roger Daltrey; Keith Moon
- Synopsis
- When Harvey visited San Francisco in 1968 and saw a great show at The Fillmore featuring The Who.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cleveland; counterculture; Haight Ashbury; hippies; Nevada; R&B; Rock and roll; rockabilly; San Francisco; The Fillmore; Zap Comix
Compromise
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "I agree with you that Wynton Marsalis's composition is derivative and vastly overrated..."
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Harvey Pekar; jazz critic; Wynton Marsalis; George Shearing; Kenny G
- Synopsis
- Harvey debates with another jazz critic about the merits of Wynton Marsalis
- Keywords
- Dixieland Revival; jazz; Pulitzer Prize
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Table of Contents
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0.
Music Comics
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1.
[Your search for the Heart and Soul of America ends here!]
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2.
Introduction
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3.
["The way I got into jazz was weird."]
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4.
My Career Begins
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5.
A Story About a Review
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6.
Slim Gaillard
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7.
Jabbo Smith
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8.
Sheila Jordan
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9.
Bill DeArango Remembers 52nd St.
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10.
Teo Macero
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11.
Sun Ra
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12.
Out of Williamsburg
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13.
A Rose for Greg Selker
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14.
It Seems Like Only Yesterday
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15.
Compromise
This issue was modified by
- Jonathan E.
- Josh Neufeld
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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