The summer issue features interviews with Chris Raschka and the late Whitney Balliett. This issue’s cover art, “Sun Ra Is Dreaming,” was created by Raschka.

Raschka has written and illustrated many children’s books, including three jazz-related works: “Charlie Parker Played Bebop,” “Mysterious Thelonious,” and “Giant Steps.” He has illustrated more than 40 books, and four times his works have been placed among the Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year by “The New York Times Book Review.” He lives in New York City.

Balliett joined the staff of “The New Yorker” in 1951and became its jazz critic in 1957. His numerous books include “American Musicians II,” “American Singers,” “Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000,” and “New York Voices.” He interviewed hundreds of musicians and wrote about them in his essays. Balliett won a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The journal interview took place in his Manhattan apartment on January 7, 1999, but was not published until now. Balliett died on February 1, 2007.

The summer issue also features the works of Kim Addonizio, author of four collections of poetry, most recently “What Is This Thing Called Love”; Gene Bertoncini, a jazz guitarist who has recorded numerous albums, including the recently released “Quiet Now”; William Ford, author of two poetry collections, “The Graveyard Picnic” and “Past Present Imperfect”; Gary Giddins, author of many books, including “Visions of Jazz: The First Century,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Jason Koo, who is a poet and poetry editor of the “Missouri Review”; Stephen Matanle, whose poems have appeared in “The Quarterly,” “Passager,” and “Poetry”; Michael Moore, a double bassist who has recorded many albums, including “O Grande Amor” (with guitarist Gene Bertoncini); Dan Morgenstern, who has served as editor of “Metonome,” “Jazz,” and “Down Beat”; Hank O’Neal, an author, photographer, and record producer; Alison Pelegrin, whose second collection, “Big Muddy River of Star,” won the Akron Poetry Prize; Ben Ratliff, author of “The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz-A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings”; Ira Sadoff, author of seven collections of poetry, most recently “Barter”; George Wein, founder and chief executive officer of Festival Productions, the premier producer of music events around the world; and Susan Weiner, an elementary school teacher who is also certified to teach yoga for kindergarten through eighth grades.

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