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Nina Simone: The High Priestess Goes Home
by Ed Hamilton
Eunice Waymon was her real name, and Nina Simone became her pianistic claim to fame in the realm of music that started in the turbulent days of the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice and music ceased to be Monday, April 21st, in the South of France. She had recently completed her Millennium Tour with a second ...
Teddy Edwards: L.A. Tenor Legend of Central Avenue
by Ed Hamilton
Teddy Edwards was an unsung hero of magnificent ramifications---not only a jazz musician who played a tremendous amount of tenor saxophone, but an arranger, writer, composer and lyricist, died of cancer. Edwards was a cornerstone of the Los Angeles Central Avenue jazz club history. Club Alabam, Dunbar Hotel, Clark Hotel, The Plantation, were the club scenes ...
Summer Montreal Jams
by Ed Hamilton
The summer months, preferably June and July, mark the beginnings of all jazz festivals in Canada stretching from Vancouver to Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, to even Quebec muscling into the festivals with their World Music Festival. In talking with jazz musicians whose bread is buttered with North American and European jazz festivals that ...
Charlie Biddle: Father of Montreal Jazz Festival
by Ed Hamilton
Charlie Biddle and his bass fiddle brought Jazz to Montreal and all of Quebec. Biddle died February 5th and only one city in North America really knows who he was and why he was so important to that city. Charlie as he was known to all was a bassist extraordinaire and jazz club restaurateur ...
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