Lionel Hampton is born

Holiday, Billie

Holiday, Billie, 1915–59, American singer, b. Baltimore. Her original name was Eleanora Fagan. She began singing professionally in 1930, and after performing with numerous bands—especially those of Benny Goodman , Teddy Wilson, Count Basie , and Artie Shaw —she embarked in 1940 on a career of

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Drumming Legend Jimmy Cobb Passes Away At 91

Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died

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Lena Horne

A pioneer among African-American performers, Lena Horne had the talent and beauty to crack the race barrier in Hollywood in the 1940s. A smooth singer of bluesy ballads, Lena Horne appeared onstage in Harlem when she was only 14 years old, and by age 16 she was singing in the famous Cotton

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong was the most famous jazz trumpeter of the 20th century. Like Jelly Roll Morton, Armstrong began playing in New Orleans clubs and saloons in his early teens. By the 1920s Armstrong was touring the country and leading his own band, the Hot Five (later the Hot Seven). He continued to

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Snoop Dogg Recalls Visiting The Notorious B.I.G. After 2Pac Was Killed [Video]

Source: 2015 BET Hip Hip Awards at the Atlanta Civic Center – Arrivals Featuring: Snoop Dogg Where: Atlanta, Georgia, United States When: 09 Oct 2015 Credit: WENN.com

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Holden, Oscar (1887-1969)

Oscar Holden, often called the patriarch of Seattle jazz, was one of the earliest of Seattle, Washington’s influential jazz musicians. Holden was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887. Before moving to Chicago, Illinois to escape from the South, Holden had played on Fate Marable’s famous

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Africa's leaders, musicians hardest hit by virus

Kenya’s seat of power, the State House, last week reported that several workers at the principal presidential office and residence had tested positive for

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BHERC Brings Back Popular Independent African American Film Festival in Virtual Format Streaming on BHERC TV | L.A. Focus Newspaper

Fresh from the success of the online debut of the 27th annual “Sistas Are Doin’ It for Themselves” film festival in May, BHERC is bringing back the popular and longstanding Indie film festival on its new streaming service BHERC

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Juneteenth Should Be Observed by All Americans

Usher Raymond wants all of America to celebrate Juneteenth as a national holiday, and not just for the culture but for the economic impact and the “many contributions” Blacks have made to this

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Opinion: Black Protest Is Music. Learning The Melody Isn't Enough

I have been overjoyed to see the large protests reaching across this nation, all the way into the small towns and suburbs, to see the pain and outrage on faces of all colors, ages and genders, people from all walks of

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Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly"

Louis Armstrongs Hello Dolly recording becomes his first and only number one record.

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Juneteenth: Celebrating The Early Moments Of Freedom Today

UPDATED: 2:54 a.m. ET, June 19, 2020

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Book on Fashion of Miles Davis, Legendary Jazz Musician | Afro

AUTHOR MICHAEL STRADFORD PENS FIRST BOOK TO EXAMINE THE PERSONAL STYLE OF LEGENDARY JAZZ MUSICIAN MILES DAVIS

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Quit Playin’: Mandate My Ass!

Gil was formally introduced to the stark realities of Black life in America as a young

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Ghana: How to Sell During COVID-19

Denis Waitley in his book - Safari to the Soul talks about the placebo

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First Jazz Concert in Boston Church

A jazz concert of sacred music by the legendary Duke Ellington and his orchestra was performed at Union Methodist Church in July, 1966, the first time a jazz performance had been held in a Boston church.

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Louis Armstrong

Birth of Louis Armstrong

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Five Social-Distancing Date Ideas

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The beat of a culture: how HBCU bands relate to Black music legacy

READ MORE: Little Richard will be buried at Alabama HBCU he attended in the 1950s

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Introduction to Jazz Music: A Brief History

Born in America, jazz can be seen as a reflection of the cultural diversity and individualism of this country. At its core are an openness to all influences, and personal expression through improvisation. Throughout its history, jazz has straddled the worlds of popular music and art music, and it

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How Jazz Helped Fuel the Civil Rights Movement

Starting with the age of bebop, jazz ceased to cater to popular audiences and instead became solely about the music and the musicians who played it. Since then, jazz has been symbolically linked to the civil rights

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Bebe Moore Campbell

Bebe Moore Campbell , in full Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell (born Feb. 18, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 27, 2006, Los Angeles, Calif.), American novelist and essayist who examined race relations and mental illness in her

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Scatman Crothers, the veteran of show business who was first black featured on Los Angeles TV

Even when Scatman Crothers was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1985, he continued to work on television; the cancer eventually spread to his esophagus and killed him on November 22, 1986 in Van

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Ransome’s ‘Everyday People’ on display at Children’s Museum of Houston

HOUSTON – The Children’s Museum Houston has unveiled a brand-new art exhibit which celebrates people, places and defining moments in African American history, just in time for

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Rukobo sheds off old image

VERSATILE artiste Rudo Rukobo yesterday said she has been taking advantage of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown to work on her clothing label project and an extended play (EP) set to feature Tocky Vibes and Jah

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‘The Eddy’ explores jazz via multiracial Paris on Netflix

“The Eddy,” a new Netflix music drama series that premieres Friday, seeks to pay homage to those encounters while also granting nods to the French New Wave ﬁlm movement of the late 1950s, the refugee, the abused, and, of

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Regular Ish: James Harden And Lil Baby Spotted Whipping A Lamborghini In Houston

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John Henry, Entrepreneur

John Henry, 23, is running a non-profit business accelerator in New York City called Cofound

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BILL VAUGHAN'S TASTY CLIPS: Mary J. Blige witnesses horrors in new film ‘Body Cam’

Nat Wolff (“Paper Towns,” “The Fault in Our Stars,” and the upcoming CBS All Access adaptation of “Stephen King’s The Stand”), Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose (“The Quad,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” “The Princess and the Frog”), and former New York police officer turned go-to character actor

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Africa: How Live Music Is Meeting the Coronavirus Challenge

The Urban Sessions, a series of live streamed music concerts, is exploring a new way of online performance to help musicians hit badly by Covid-19

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