In this very special not to be missed episode, Fiona talks to legendary Maxine Gordon live in Paris, in her first ever podcast!
Maxine Gordon is an independent scholar with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. She is an oral historian and archivist in the fields of jazz and African American cultural history whose award-winning book Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon fulfilled the promise she made to her late husband, the jazz saxophonist and Academy Award–nominated actor Dexter Gordon, to complete his biography. Maxine also earned an MA in African diaspora history from New York University, where she received a Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship.
Maxine is currently working on her much-anticipated next book, “Quartette: Four Women in Jazz, Stories from the Lives of Maxine Sullivan, Velma Middleton, Melba Liston, and Shirley Scott.” The book will be presented in a context that is described as “jazz geography,” using a close look at the element of place as a factor in the artists’ lives. We cannot wait!
Click here for Maxine Gordon website
