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A Night of Jazz, Legacy, and the Unexpected at Unterfahrt 
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February 28: Sarah Vaughan 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 23: Marian Anderson 
February 22: Berry Gordy 
February 20: Duke Ellington 
February 19: Nina Simone: The Power of Protest Through Music 
February 18: Bessie Smith: Jazz’s First Superstar 
February 17: Thomas A. Dorsey 
February 16: Ma Rainey 
February 15: John Coltrane 
February 14: Scott Joplin 
February 12: Art Tatum 
Fatoumata Diawara: A Fusion of Tradition and Modernity 
February 11. Ella Fitzgerald 
February 8: Louis Armstrong 
February 2: Mahalia Jackson 
Sylvester: Beyond the Gimmick | 1980-1-1 
The Ntu Sound Chamber: A Spiritual Jazz Journey with WDR Big Band and Nduduzo Makhathini 
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Part 3. – Miles Davis and the Evolution of Jazz Fusion from Classical Roots 
Part 2. — How the Modern Jazz Quartet Blended Jazz and Classical Music to Create Something Timeless 
Part I. Blending Jazz and Classical Music: Schuller, Davis, and MJQ 
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🎉 Happy Birthday to the Legendary James Mtume! 🎶 
February 26: Sidney Poitier 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 6: Lorraine Hansberry 
George C. Wolfe: Shaping American Theater with Unapologetic Truth 
James Augustus Van Der Zee — Harlem Renaissance Historian 
February 4: Augusta Savage 
February 1: Jacob Lawrence 
✨ Sneak Peek Alert! ✨— Jacob Lawrence 
“Wylie Avenue Views” – Interview with Robbie McCauley, Award-Winning Actress — Part I
"Always Learning", Part I This interview with Robbie McCauley, award-winning actress, inaugurates Wylie Avenue Views, a column about art and activism. Wylie Avenue is real and imaginary. It runs down the center of August Wilson’s ten play urban saga and it is forever alive, pulsing with music and ideas and new possibilities.... Read More
“The Spinning Wheel” – Street Art Poetics
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Through February 21, 2016 · All Day BRIC Arts – Media House 647 Fulton Street 718-683 5600 Brooklyn Related to the BRIC Fireworks Project, The... Read More
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Dec 22, 2015 – Jan 3, 2016 New York City Center 130 West 56th Street New York Artistic Director Robert Battle will present two of... Read More
Arthur A. Schomburg — Founder of the Schomburg Research Library in Harlem
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“Black Suburbia: From Levittown to Ferguson”
Through December 31, 2015 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd Harlem Schomburg Exhibitions Manager Isissa Komada-John talks to ABC-TV s "Here and Now" about "Black Suburbia: From Levittown to Ferguson." [embedyt]... Read More
“Body And Soul” — Performed by Jazz Great Musicians
The jazz standard Body And Soul was written in 1930 with music by Johnny Green, lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour & Frank Eyton. I always... Read More
“Dare To Be Black – The Jack Johnson Story”
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Benjamin Clementine — Vocalist reminiscent of Nina Simone
It’s refreshing to find out about rising stars like Benjamin Clementine. He’s out of the United Kingdom. His music delivery is very Vocalist . If you... Read More