AP - Jun 3, 2009
Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a better look at the band. The audience — including girls in headscarves — danced around the gilded balconies to oriental, hip-...
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The jazz collection that for two decades before Hurricane Katrina was housed in the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans will be overhauled, updated, and in about two years, moved back into its historic French...
More »AP - Aug 17, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) — Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington s drummer fell ill in 1940. Those three nights spawned a career that would make the self-taught Roach...
More »AP - Jun 20, 2004
Despite unexpected drama, bossa nova legend Joao Gilberto overcame all obstacles to cast his musical spell on a Carnegie Hall audience with a marathon two-hour concert at the JVC Jazz Festival. Carnegie...
More »AP - Jun 13, 2004
John R.T. Davies, one of the world s top restorers of old jazz records, has died, his family said. He was 77. Davies succumbed to cancer on May 25 at his home in Burnham, in Buckinghamshire, northwest...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2004
A 1929 film clip of country music legend Jimmie Rogers. Scratchy recordings of Mississippi blues godfather Robert Johnson. Images of folk icon Bob Dylan s early performances in Twin Cities cafes. A...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2004
An overflow crowd of 400 watched the man in dark glasses and a purple suit approach the grand piano wedged between the desks and podium of the Georgia House of Representatives. Brother Ray Charles...
More »AP - Jun 1, 2004
An exhibit of Frank Sinatra memorabilia, from letters to photographs to album covers, has opened to the public as part of an annual jazz series. The exhibition is running through June and July at the...
More »Reuters - Mar 27, 2004
San Francisco has long been renowned as a city that marches to a different drummer, whether it be progressive politics or gay marital rights. So it comes as no surprise that SFJAZZ, the city s nonprofit...
More »AP - Feb 4, 2004
For five decades, names like Ella Fitzgerald and Jimi Hendrix have blared out in neon letters above the doors of the Olympia concert hall. The famed Paris concert hall turns 50 on Thursday, marking...
More »AP - Nov 6, 2003
After 11 years of planning, backers of a National Music Center and Museum pledged Thursday to open the facility in the nation s capital five years from now. We will be having our grand opening in 2008...
More »USRN - Jun 2, 1998
(6/2/98) - Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan are among the 20 artists and entertainers who most influenced life in the 20th century, according to Time magazine...
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