BY WALTER OPINDE Since opening its doors on 24th June, 1914, and introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has played a significant role in the emergence of jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, and soul — all prototypically American music genres. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis Jr., James Brown, […]
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