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'The Man With the Horn' wore horn-rimmed glasses - A retrospective look at the life and legacy of Sonny Bradshaw
Kingston :: Jamaica | 1 day ago
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Sonny Bradshaw in 1953 Herbie Miller, Contributor Across artistic disciplines and through all periods, one observes a frightening number of Jamaican artistes ending up by the wayside or fall short of achieving their full capabilities due to overindulgence,...
Tags: Sonny Bradshaw Published, Perhaps Bradshaw, rimmed glasses, Sonny Gray, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, wore horn, Jamaican, big band, Louis Armstrong, Jamaica, Kingston, Jazz, Savoy Records artists, John Layfield, Year of birth missing, Entertainment Culture, Myrna Hague
Coloured Musicians Club
There was a time when although music was colour blind, the musicians were not and only white musicians were allowed in the local clubs. As a result, the coloured musicians gathered and formed their own club in 1918 in an area not far from downtown...
Tags: Coloured Musicians Club, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holdiay, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Buffalo, New York, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, musicians clubs
Beach Boys added to Grammy list
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The 1965 hit is joined by jazz classics by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and Dippermouth Blues, a 1923 recording featuring a young Armstrong on cornet. Birdland by Weather Report, from 1977, is the most recent of the inductees, which have to be...
Tags: grammy hall, Bob Marley, Beach Boys' California Girls, recorded academy, Recording Academy, Louis Armstrong, recorded added, Los Angeles, Entertainment Culture, Janis Joplin, Human Interest, The Isley Brothers, Grammy Hall of Fame Award, The Wailers, Pan-Africanism, Josￃﾩ Feliciano, Grammy Awards, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Cannabis culture, No Woman No Cry, Reggae, Legend, Jacksoul, Nunavut, Iqaluit, Count Basie, Shout, Neale, Juno Award, Haydain Neale
MUSIC INDUSTRY: Notes from the Net: The Miles Davis Mega-Box; Music Genres Defined; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More
Asheville :: NC :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming...
Tags: Miles Davis Mega-Box, Asheville, Jazz, Entertainment Culture, Trumpet, Brass instruments, Cornet, Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, Armstrong, Scat singing, Louis Armstrong, African American music, St. Louis Missouri, African American culture
Books of The Times: The Voice That Helped Remake Culture
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility His determination to entertain and the mass popularity he eventually achieved, coupled with his gregarious, open-hearted personality, would obscure the magnitude of his achievement and win him the disdain of many intellectuals and younger colleagues,...
Tags: Genius of Louis Armstrong, Mr. Teachout, New Orleans, West End Blues, Joe "King" Oliver, Jazz, Armstrong, Potato Head Blues, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Terry Teachout, Entertainment Culture
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) - Mosaic Records Limited Edition Box Set
New York :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Like buried treasure reclaimed from the past, this remarkable set is like no other Bing Crosby collection ever released...He was fortunate to introduce his artistry to singing as one element of a perfect storm that included significant advancements in...
Tags: Bing Crosby, CBS Radio Recordings, Bing & Satchmo, Mosaic Records, limited edition, mosaic recorded, crosby cbs, box set, radio recorded, New York, Bing with a Beat, Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Andrews Sisters, Crooner, Louis Armstrong, Entertainment Culture
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Tom Talbert: Bix, Duke, Fats
West End :: NY :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility I tend to avoid tribute albums. Barring a handful of gems, among them Louis Armstrong's salutes to Fats Waller and W.C. Handy, most miss the mark because they try too hard to one-up or mimic the subject of their adulation.
Tags: Tom Talbert, Gil Evans, Joe Wilder, New York, Oscar Pettiford, Tommy, California, West Coast, Atlantic Records, West End, Bix, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Big band, Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Entertainment Culture
Terry Teachout Reads from POPS: A Life of Louis Armstrong
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin), author Terry Teachout, the respected culture critic ( The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, National Review ), reveals the lesser known side of the man who is arguably the most influential figure in the history...
Tags: Life of Louis Armstrong, New Orleans, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Storyville, Entertainment Culture, Terry Teachout, Louis Armstrong, Commentary, Human Interest
Indian base on the Moon
Welcome to Erlanger – the Indian base on the Moon. Encouraged by the success of the Moon mission, the scientists of ISRO have plans for Indians to settle on the Moon. The age-old joke might actually become true – the joke went: when Louis...
Tags: erlanger, isro, louis armstrong, udipi restaurants, helium
Louis Armstrong goes into bat for sleepless residents
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Ms Ireland and her neighbours at Allora on the Darling Downs found that a steady diet of Louis Armstrong, Mantovani and Patsy Cline was more than the flying foxes could stand. All 14,000 have left and are now roosting half a kilometre away. A neighbour...
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