Mary Lou Williams: Jazz Pianist is born

Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy and Dial Recordings available on Vinyl

Savoy Jazz has reissued their Grammy nominated collection of jazz pioneer Charlie Parker’s seminal recordings from the 1940’s, “CHARLIE PARKER: THE COMPLETE SAVOY AND DIAL STUDIO RECORDINGS” on 180 gram vinyl in a 10 LP set. The historic collection produced and compiled by Orrin

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How Kenya ended up immortalising Jomo’s buddies

In the case of two other friends with origins in the State of Guyana, Ras Makonnen and Cecil Miller, President Jomo Kenyatta gave them Kenyan citizenship, jobs and facilitated their permanent settlement in the country, where he wanted them laid to rest when the time finally

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

Bernice Johnson Reagon , née Bernice Johnson (born Oct. 4, 1942, Albany, Ga., U.S.), African American musician and historian whose work ranged from African spirituals to militant civil rights

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Scatman Crothers, the veteran of show business who was first black featured on Los Angeles TV

Even when Scatman Crothers was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1985, he continued to work on television; the cancer eventually spread to his esophagus and killed him on November 22, 1986 in Van

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Cole, Nat King

Cole, Nat King, 1919–65, American musician and composer, b. Montgomery, Ala., as Nathaniel Adams Coles. A jazz pianist, he played Los Angeles nightclubs and in 1938 formed the original King Cole Trio. Later he turned to singing and became internationally popular for his smooth, velvety voice and

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African-American History and Women Timeline 1990-1999

More of the Timeline: 1980 - 1989 / 2000

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10 Famous Jazz Saxophonists

Whod have thought when Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone back in 1846 that it would become one of the most widely played and fervently loved instruments in the world of jazz. Over the past 160-some years, the saxophone has been both an ensemble instrument - as was the case with the big bands of

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Stevie Wonder

Occupation(s) Stevland Hardaway Morris (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins; May 13, 1950),[1] known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he is considered to be one of the most critically and commercial

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Foster, Catherine D. ("Kay") -Copyeditor

Catherine D. Foster (Kay) received her B.A. in Political Science from St. Martin’s College (now University) in Olympia, Washington in 1976. Previously, she attended Western Washington University, where she was in the Honors

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Meet the Black Ballerina and Entrepreneur Helping People Heal From their Trauma

Tyde-Courtney Edwards, founding director of Ballet After Dark, is a classically trained black ballerina, art model, and survivor of sexual assault who is on a mission to help others heal from their trauma through the art of

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African-american NY National Guard Troops Had To Fight To Fight In World War I

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (02/01/2018) (readMedia)-- During the World War I centennial observance, the New York National Guard and New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs will issue press releases noting key dates which impacted New Yorkers, based on information and artifacts provided by

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Chloe x Halle, Yebba and Jacob Collier Offer Danceable Grooves In Time For Summer

Today’s edition features a soulful solo number from Yebba Smith, a throwback funk fest with Anthony Hamilton and Rick James, and an end of the night jam from Chelsie

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Jimmy Cobb, Drummer On Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue' Album, Dead At 91

Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died

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10 Influential Bebop Jazz Musicians

Considered the joint founder of bebop, along with Dizzy Gillespie, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker brought a new level of harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic sophistication to jazz. His music was controversial at first, as it drew away from the popular sensibilities of swing. Despite a self-destructive

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Jazz competition for high school students goes virtual

NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, but it will still go on, giving students the chance to show their talents

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Internationally Known Drummer

Roy Haynes, a Roxbury native, is a nationally known drummer and has played a significant role in the changing sound of jazz in a career that encompasses several eras from the bebop of Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk to Chick Corea's avant-fusion.

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Bessie Smith

Born into poverty and orphaned at an early age, Bessie Smith became the greatest blues singer of her era, recording more than 160 songs between 1923 and 1933. Her early career was influenced by Ma Rainey, and Smith performed on stage throughout the southern U.S. before making records. She recorded

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African American History and Women Timeline 1980-1989

[Previous] [Next] Angela Davis ran for Vice President on the Communist Party ticket. She became Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, a position she held until 1984. Janie L. Mines graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. She was the first African American

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Oscar Brown

Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. He ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Congress. Brown wrote numerous songs (only 125 have been published), 12

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African-American culture

African-American culture, also known as Black-American culture, refers to the cultural contributions of African Americans to the culture of the United States, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture. The distinct identity of African-American culture is rooted in the

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem

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Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley , in full Robert White Creeley (born May 21, 1926, Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died March 30, 2005, Odessa, Texas), American poet and founder of the Black Mountain movement of the 1950s (see Black Mountain

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891[1] [2] – January 28, 1960) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist known for her contributions to African-American literature, her portrayal of racial struggles in the American South, and works documenting her research

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1891

The Color Purple

For the color, see

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In his new book, baseball's Dusty Baker opens up on his love of music

Yes, Dusty Baker was there, in the on-deck circle on an April night in 1974 in Atlanta when Hank Aaron hit the home run that vaulted him past Babe Ruth and into American sports

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Rhythm and blues

R&B and RnB redirect here. For the modern style of music also called R&B, see Contemporary R&B. For the Japanese television station that uses the abbreviation RNB, see Nankai

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African American History and Women Timeline 1920-1929

[Previous] [Next] 1920s • Harlem Renaissance: also called the New Negro Movement, a blossoming of arts, culture, and social action in the African American community • 19th Amendment to the US Constitution became law, but practically this did not give the vote to Southern African American women, who,

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Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin was a 19th century composer and founder of the ragtime genre of music. He was born in Linden, Texas, somewhere between late 1867 to early 1868 and was the youngest of six children born to Giles Joplin (a former slave) and Florence Givens. His family was musically inclined which gave

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Smith, Ada “Bricktop” (1894-1984)

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith (“Bricktop”), vaudevillian actress, singer, nightclub owner, and international celebrity host, was born August 14, 1894 in Alderson, West Virginia, to Thomas and Hattie Thompson Smith. Her father passed away in 1898 and Mrs. Smith moved

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Jazz History by Decade - 1920 to 1930

Previous Decade: 1910 – 1920

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