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✨ Cultural Wrap-Up: Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Muddy Waters – April 29, 2025

Ronald Bunn — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:30:00 +0000

ROUTES: A Guide to African-American Culture✨ Cultural Wrap-Up – Tuesday, April 29, 2025 🎉 Birthday Spotlight: Duke Ellington (b. April 29, 1899)Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington didn’t

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February 8: Louis Armstrong

Ronald Bunn — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:28:00 +0000

A Daily Journey Through Black History Month The Pioneer of Jazz Innovation Story In the 1920s, Louis Armstrong revolutionized jazz with his virtuosic trumpet playing

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Herbie Hancock and Keyon Harrold at Central Park Summerstage

Ellen Levitt — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:06:34 +0000

Jazz remains relevant to music lovers, and, people are certainly still interested in watching famous jazz musicians perform live at Central Park Summerstage. Nothing invigorates

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Ivan Nagy Serenading Dizzy Gillespie at Oops! the Wrong Door

Nina Michelle Nagy — Sun, 22 May 2022 11:33:28 +0000

The year is 1976. Dad, Ivan Nagy is away. He’s on a European tour across Scandinavia for three months. We won’t get to see him

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African-American Pianists at the Gateways Music Festival

Yvette Berry — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:31:31 +0000

In the shadows of the behemoth Lincoln Center complex, located just of Broadway at 65th Street is a smaller musical resource known as the Elaine

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Bill’s Place, Speakeasies and Billie Holiday on Swing Street

Theda Palmer Saxton PhD — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:59:39 +0000

Jazz Rooted on Swing Street at Bill’s Place In Harlem, sandwiched between the noisy clatter of the number 2 and 3 and C trains, is

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Stepping into the Future with Trumpeter Theo Crocker

Yvette Berry — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:49:30 +0000

For the first time since the pandemic, on Saturday, March 26th at the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, I stepped from confinement to

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Music History Month: Congrats to African-American Musicians

Ronald Bunn — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:23:29 +0000

As I too often witness overwhelming dismissal of the monetary contributions African-Americans make to the United States Gross National Product, my reflections focus on the

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Sun Ra and his Arkestra then (1992) and now (2022)

Ellen Levitt — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:59:08 +0000

When the 2022 Afrofuturism series was announced by Carnegie Hall, I scrolled eagerly through the rather eclectic line-up of the festival. I was hoping it

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Hartmut Geerken’s Sun Ra Archive Finds A Home in Germany

Sandhi Smalls Santini — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:20:32 +0000

On Halloween 2020, amidst the height and dread of the COVID-19 pandemic, I received a telephone call from Munich, Germany. The caller was Hartmut Geerken.

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