jazz
This is the grave of Max Roach. Born in 1924 in Newland, North Carolina, Roach's family moved to Brooklyn in 1928. Roach became a musician from a very young age,.
You need Sunday School today. Specifically, to listen to Professor Sun Ra lecture in his course he gave in 1971 at UC-Berkeley titled "The Black Man in the Cosmos." The.
The other day I was listening to an album by the great Irving Fields, the brilliant pianist who merged jazz, the sort of Jewish-American popular music I associate with Catskills.
I realized that some of you have probably never seen any of the Sun Ra films. Allow me to alleviate this serious problem in your life.
Last night, I was fortunate enough to see a band headed by the drummer Ches Smith that also included the pianist Craig Taborn and the viola player Mat Maneri at.
Have a peaceful and quiet evening with Akira Sakata.
I was unaware of the Dizzy Gillespie for president campaign in 1964. His idea for Miles Davis as head of the CIA certainly would have made for a funkier agency.
In 1939, a promotional film in English was made for Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and the Hot Club of France. It's unclear why, probably for a tour of Britain the.