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Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture Acquires Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins's Personal Archive
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library today announced the acquisition of American tenor saxophonist and jazz legend Sonny Rollins’s personal archive. The robust collection includes more than 150 linear feet of material that document Rollins’s life and career from the 1950s to the present. This acquisition also marks the Harlem native’s “return” to the neighborhood of his youth. Rollins was profoundly influenced and inspired by the sights and sounds of the Harlem ...
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The Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Putting together a big band in these dicey economic times is a tough proposition at best, but pianist and composer Orrin Evans is bucking the odds with this large ensemble that features tight ensemble playing and fine soloing. It is a particularly large band and this allows them to play several distinct textures and work them into the bands overall sound. The ensemble meshes nicely like a finely woven garment and everybody is on the same page throughout the album. ...
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One Track Mind: Orrin Evans on "Captain Black," "Commitment," "Jena 6," Others
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Something Else!
On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to Orrin Evans, a former sideman with Bobby Watson who quickly established himself as one of jazz music's most fascinating new voices over the course of a solo career begun in 1994. Here, the pianist shares unique insights into some of his more memorable tracks. Find out just who Captain Black was. How his chance discovery of a 1970 Belafonte/Horne recording called Harry & ...
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"Stereotypes in Black Music" by Alan Kurtz, Reviewed by Steve Provizer
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Author Alan Kurtz's thesis is: since at least the turn of the 20th century, African-American performers have been fulfilling and/or re-inforcing stereotypes of the naturally-rhythmic primitive savage-i.e., sustaining “white ethnocentric fantasies"-to advance their careers. Episodes include: Minstrelsy, the “coon song" craze, vaudeville, popular black theater ("In Dahomey," Shuffle Along," etc), Ellington's “Jungle Music," Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Cab Calloway, bebop, R&B, the jazz avant-garde of the 60's, disco and rap/hip hop. Mr. Kurtz says he wants the book to ...
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Great Women In Music and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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319 Public Relations
On October 22, 2010 at 7PM Great Women In Music in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture under the leadership of its Director Howard Dodson, will honor Gloria Lynne for her 50 Years of Musical Excellence. Known for her rich tone and regal manner, Gloria Lynne is the first artist ever to be simultaneously listed on the Pop, Jazz and R&B charts. Ms. Lynne is a perennial performer, composer, and author that has been recognized as ...
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Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band at Chris' Jazz Cafe on April 30, 2010
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All About Jazz
Orrin Evans brings his Captain Black Big Band to Chris' Jazz Cafe on April 30, 2010. Possible band members include bass: Eric Revis, Madison Rast, Mike Boone, Reid Anderson. drums: Donald Edwards, Byron Landham, Ralph Peterson, Gene Jackson, Nasheet Waits saxophone: Ralph Bowen, Sam Newsome, Tia Fuller,JD Allen And many more.....
Friday, April 30, 2010 Sets starting @ 8:00 PM Chris' Jazz Cafe 1421 Sansom St Philadelphia PA Info: 215-568-3131 ...
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Vanessa Rubin to Star in Black Rep's Yesterdays: An Evening with Billie Holiday
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Singer Vanessa Rubin (pictured) is coming to St. Louis to star in the Black Rep's production of Yesterdays: An Evening with Billie Holiday, which will run Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, March 14 at the Grandel Theater, 3610 Grandel Square (just west of Grand Ave).The play by Reenie Upchurch tells the story of Holiday's last performance at a New York club, incorporating songs such as “My Man", “Strange Fruit", “Fine and Mellow" and “God Bless the Child."
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Jazz, in Black and White
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All About Jazz
The Sept. 20 obituary of Richard M. Sudhalter discussed his book Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945. The obituary failed to mention that the book was widely praised for correcting the notion that the roots of jazz were only in African American culture and that its development was virtually without significant contribution by white musicians. Sudhalter thoroughly researched and documented the involvement of myriad white jazz musicians, including Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey and Mildred ...
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Lake Eden Arts Festival Celebrates 25th Festival in Black Mountain, NC
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All About Jazz
What: Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) Celebrating 25 Festivals Connecting cultures and creating community through music & arts When: October 19-21 Where: Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC Featured Performing Artists: Michael Franti solo, Les Nubians, Doc Watson with Richard Watson & David Holt as Hills of Home, Fishbone, Tony Trischka, Bio Ritmo, Wild Asparagus, Kiyosi Nagata (Japan), Henry Butler, John Doyle & Liz Carroll, John Boutte, The Wilders, Mizero Troupe (Rwanda), Jabali African ...
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