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SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Shortly after black Americans found themselves freed from the shackles of slavery in the late 19th century, the labor songs that echoed among the estates worked by slaves turned into what we now call jazz…

John Chambal prepares all that jazz - and excellent Bolognese. Photo: Thomas Stauder. The old adage that you don't eat in a jazz club is regularly denied by Jean Chambal to a lair in Tarryville devoted to the great American musical…

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ALBION — Fairfield-based school district administrators are pushing ahead with plans to consolidate students into a new school, but some people in Albion oppose the effort because it would shut down the city's school. Kara Kugelmeyer, an…

For a time during his teenage years, Mitchell Borden feared he had begun to acquire the dangerously seductive characteristics of a cult leader. "I wore sandals and robes in high school," Borden tells me. He's stuck in…

Wendy Williams, Managing Director of Jazz 91.9 WCLK (Photo credit: Lenna Davis from Lenna Davis Photography) * The inauguration Jazz Music Awards: Celebrating the Spirit of Jazz announced its awards ceremony, scheduled for Saturday 22…

by Len Lear Benjamin L. Bynum Sr., longtime Mount Airy resident, who brought countless bold names to his North Philly jazz club, the Cadillac Club, from 1965 to 1977, and whose sons helped run a…

Especially for many young people, jazz has not been fresh since its heyday in the 1940s. “I wish more people would give it a chance,” said Dan Green, director of the SJU Jazz Band. “There is a lot of dance music where I understand why…

Downtown Manhattan's premier jazz club, The Django, today announced a new showcase for the music of legendary composer / bassist / conductor Charles Mingus. Starting in October, Jazz Workshop (the Mingus organization) rekindled its weekly…

The St. Louis Jazz Club is proud to announce that we will be celebrating 70 wonderful years in October. The first meeting of the Jazz Club took place on October 8, 1951, in the Mandarin Room of the Hamilton-Wilshire Hotel. The president…

NEW YORK, June 29, 2021 / PRNewswire / - In July and August, the New York Jazz Workshop will reopen its state-of-the-art facilities to the public for in-person jazz programs. NYJW Celebrates Reopening In-Person Classes with Stellar Lineup…

For a relatively recent convert to improvised music, New York pianist Helen Sung has a notable zeal for paying homage to the jazz giants who have shaped her art.At this year's edition of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival (airing…

There might not be another teenager who in 2021 is as obsessed with Frank Sinatra as Anaïs Reno. The 17-year-old singer presents several of her albums on CD and vinyl on a shelf in her apartment room in New York City. “It's a bit…

Charlotte Nicdao never planned to become an actress. The actress, who plays lead engineer Poppy in Apple TV + Mythic Quest, once had completely different professional aspirations: she wanted to play jazz for a living.“I was training to be a…

Isaac Mingus originally wanted to follow his father and study the clarinet as a child. But his director of the Pine View Orchestra told him that with a name like Mingus - as in jazz greats Charlie Mingus - all he had to do was get down to…

Chick Corea, considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time and a musician who helped expand the sound and possibilities of the genre, died on February 9 "from a rare form of cancer," according to a message posted Thursday on his…

All things considered, growing up in a musical family should have meant that Samara Joy would grow up to…

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Jacqueline Beaumont will present her own interpretation of "Famous Female Jazz Singers" on Friday April 19th at Elks Lodge, 132 Abbott Lane.Show time is 6 to 7:30 pm, with seats at 5:30 pm Tickets are $ 10 at the door…

While the typical jazz music venue in most cities is a hotel lounge or nightclub, in Salmon Arm, jazz fans flock to the Nexus of the First United Church, which has become a venue for music enjoyed by 325 seats for the community.…

While the typical jazz music venue in most cities is a hotel lounge or nightclub, in Salmon Arm, jazz fans flock to the Nexus of the First United Church, which has become a venue for music enjoyed by 325 seats for the community.…

While the typical jazz music venue in most cities is a hotel lounge or nightclub, in Salmon Arm, jazz fans flock to the Nexus of the First United Church, which has become a venue for music enjoyed by 325 seats for the community.…

Frank Sinatra is one of today's most revered musicians, winning countless awards for his music and known to have forever changed American popular music.Daily Special Frank Sinatra was, by most…

MONT OLIVE TWP. - Alvaro Caravaca, a grade eight student at Mount Olive Middle School, is among the students…

On Saturday May 5, El Camino College hosted ¡! Fiesta de Jazz !, a jazz festival celebrated for five years in the Auditorium Marsee. The Jazz Festival is a day-long event featuring a variety of jazz performers as well as a workshop for…

Fats Domino has dementia now, but he's still loved here in his hometown, where New Orleans' 46th annual Jazz and Heritage Festival ends this weekend with a special tribute to the rock and roll giant. 87 years old. "Listen," begins the…

Jamie Cullum doesn't want anyone to get the wrong idea about his new album, "Interlude".British singer and pianist who emerged in the early 2000s as an early jazz star with messy hair, Cullum spent the next decade getting closer and closer…

ICYMI, Lady Gaga teamed up with crooner Tony Bennett for their Cheek to cheek record, which is a jazz standards album. The music is from another era, so of course that period inspired Lady Gaga's latest style. Gaga admitted that the…

Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide Scott Yanow Brooch; 264 pages ISBN: 0879308257 Backbeat Books 2008 My God, there are so many jazz singers out there. More than 700 at least, according to Scott Yanow, who gives himself the heavy task of…