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• Originally published 02/11/2014

  The Birth of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’

  George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman introduced jazz to a classical audience.

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• Originally published 11/05/2013

  Santana, other musicians join effort to jazz up NY home of John Coltrane, turn it into museum

  The cavalcade of musicians is trying to transform the Dix Hills, Long Island home.

• Originally published 03/26/2013

  James Hughes: Stanley Kubrick's Unmade Film About Jazz in the Third Reich

  James Hughes is a Chicago-based writer and editor who has contributed to Slate, The Believer, Wax Poetics, and The Village Voice. For a decade, he was an editor and publisher of Stop Smiling magazine and its book imprint. In 1985, Stanley Kubrick was handed a book on the survival of jazz in Nazi-occupied Europe. A snapshot of a Luftwaffe officer casually posing among black, Gypsy, and Jewish musicians outside a Paris nightclub caught his eye. It looked like something out of Dr. Strangelove, he said. He'd long wanted to bring World War II to the screen, and perhaps this photograph offered a way in."Stanley's famous saying was that it was easier to fall in love than find a good story," says Tony Frewin, Kubrick's longtime assistant (and, for the purpose of disclosure, an editor-at-large at my former magazine, Stop Smiling). "He was limitlessly interested in anything to do with Nazis and desperately wanted to make a film on the subject."