James Forman Jr.

Biography

James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967) is an American legal scholar currently on leave from serving as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and a co-founder of the Maya Angelou School in Washington, D.C. In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Dinah Washington Sings The Best In Blues

  1957

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  The Beginning And End Of Bop

  1969

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  The Greatest Of Dizzy Gillespie

  1961

Credited work

119 releases · 26 albums · active 1950–2017

• Performance · 146
• Other credits · 5

Studios: Pasadena Civic Auditorium · Apex Studios, New York · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Frequent collaborators

• Dizzy Gillespie
• Various
• Dinah Washington
• Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra
• James Moody
• Gene Norman
• Art Blakey's Messengers

Around the web

• Wikipedia