Jun 19, 2023 | Jazz, Juneteenth
The day of June 19, shortened to Juneteenth, marks an important holiday in our country. Widely considered the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the United States, Juneteenth has its origins in the announcement on June 19, 1865, by Union Major General...
May 8, 2023 | Jazz, Music
Bassist George Porter Jr. and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste played the very first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival in 1970 with their groundbreaking funk band The Meters. More than 50 years later, The Meters are no more, but Porter and Modeliste are still...
Aug 1, 2022 | Detroit, Jazz, Music
Three Black musicians born and raised in Detroit—drummer, Louis Hayes, saxophonist Kenny Garrett, and violinist, Regina Carter—are three of the four winners of the 2023 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, according to an announcement from the National Endowment for the Arts...
May 2, 2022 | History, Jazz, Music
In May 1922 Kid Ory’s Jazz Band entered Andrae Nordskog’s studio in Santa Monica, California, and made the first recording of a Black New Orleans jazz band. The 1811/Kid Ory Historic House in LaPlace, Louisiana, is marking this historic occasion with a performance by...
Apr 11, 2022 | History, Jazz, Music
Being called the “Maharaja of the Keyboard” by Duke Ellington was a lot for Canadian-born jazz pianist Oscar Peterson to live up to – and he did. In continued celebration of #JazzAppreciationMonth, today we drop in on virtuoso...
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