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First Reported 39 mins ago - Updated 39 mins ago - 1 Documents

Lew Soloff

And the jazz$ keeps playing on$

Last week, I was part of a memorial tribute to a woman I have written about several times before, Phoebe Jacobs, who died on April 9 at the age of 93.She was a founder of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, of which I am the president, and worked ... [ Published 39 mins ago by New York Daily News ]

Entities: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Norma Miller, Jonathan Batiste, Lew Soloff

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 Documents

Dick Hyman

Carrie Smith, Singer in ‘Black and Blue,’ Dies at 86

Carrie Smith, a jazz and blues singer who brought a warm stage presence and lustrous voice to Broadway in the musical revue Black and Blue, died on May 20 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of the Actors Fund in Englewood, N.J. She was 86. The cause was ... [ Published May 27 2012 by New York Times ]

Entities: Bessie Smith, Dick Hyman, Smiths (United States)

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Memorial Service Next Tuesday for Clarinetist Joe Muranyi

Louis Armstrong's Final Clarinetist was 84 when he died in AprilA memorial service for clarinetist Joe Muranyi will be held next Tuesday, May 29, at 7 p.m. at St. Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York City. Muranyi, who passed ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Jazz Times ]

Entities: Joe Muranyi, Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon, Red Allen

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Kirk Joseph

Uplifting Dirty Dozen Brass Band gets the crowd dancing

Opportunities to witness a large crowd dancing to a jazz band have become distressingly rare in Kansas City. The exceptional sight was on display Thursday at Crossroads KC as more than 200 people ? most in their twenties and thirties ? cavorted to the ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Kansas City Star ]

Entities: Kirk Joseph, Sierra Leone, New Orleans, Kei Kamara, Charlie Parker

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Madeleine Peyroux

MADELEINE PEYROUX

The smoky-voiced songstress Madeleine Peyroux is known to her fans for intimately arranged covers of the early American blues and jazz repertoire – one who’s achieved critical notice and sales success with her signature “postmodernist coolness” (LA Times). ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Now Austin ]

Entities: Madeleine Peyroux, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Norma Miller

Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents Tribute to Phoebe Jacobs Tonight, 5/24

The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and Jazz at Lincoln Center invite you to the Tribute to Phoebe Jacobs, in memoriam. The event will be held at Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center tonight, May 24, 2012 at 1 p.m. There ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Broadway World ]

Entities: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Mercer Ellington, Norma Miller

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

AARP

Favorite Songs of All Time?

Sometimes it was a single song, like Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" or Don McLean's "American Pie." Others regretted the absence of an artist (Bob Dylan was on many lists), a group (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is clearly a favorite, as is the Band, ... [ Published May 25 2012 by AARP ]

Entities: Louis Armstrong, AARP, Bruce Springsteen

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Celebrate Queen's Diamond Jubilee in music

FANS of the big-band sound have the chance to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in musical style at a forthcoming concert in Didcot.Taking you on a 27-year musical journey through her early life will be Tony Jacobs and Company when they present The ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Didcot Herald ]

Entities: Syd Lawrence, Bob Crosby, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Today's News: ONE of the region’s best known jazz musicians, Joe Young, has died.

The leader of the Mighty Joe Young band started his music career with concerts at places including the New Orleans Club in Newcastle.He said: “We were playing two nights a week at the club in Melbourne Street. It was a workingmen’s club, and the council, ... [ Published May 24 2012 by The Journal ]

Entities: John Wheatley, Annie Ross, Acker Bilk

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 2 Documents

Illustrating the '60s music revolution

Around that same time my father came home with a present for me. It was a ream of blank newsprint paper. He was a transit worker, and he explained that someone had left it behind on the subway. For me it became a treasured gift, as the paper looked exactly ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Salon ]

Entities: Bill Blackbeard, Mort Meskin, Reproducibility, Illustrator

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Jazz greats come together for tribute to greatest advocate Phoebe Jacobs

Jazz Music Examiner+ Subscribe“More than anything, we loved Phoebe Jacobs because she embodied the very essence and the heart and soul of America's greatest art form, jazz. She talked jazz, she swung jazz, she ate jazz, she danced jazz, and she lived ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Examiner.com ]

Entities: Louis Armstrong, Advocate, Rose Hall, Wynton Marsalis

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Jazz and its moods

The melodic rhythm in jazz has a syncopated quality that comes alive when heard. It does have a somewhat formal technique, which is quite unlike anything in Hindustani music. It weaves in and out like the wafting of the loom. And just like a loom, jazz ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Asian Age ]

Entities: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Soli Sorabjee, Ella Fitzgerald, African-Americans

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Carrie Smith, Singer in Black and Blue on Broad... [ Published 21 hours ago by New York Times ]
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MADELEINE PEYROUX [ Published May 25 2012 by Now Austin ]
Memorial Service for Jazz Clarinetist Joe Muran... [ Published May 25 2012 by Broadway World ]
Favorite Songs of All Time? [ Published May 25 2012 by AARP ]
Celebrate Queen's Diamond Jubilee in music [ Published May 24 2012 by Didcot Herald ]
S’pore Arts Fest 2012! Oldies but goodies! [ Published May 24 2012 by Today Online ]
The Harmonica-Playing Baron Of Belgium [ Published May 24 2012 by WXEL ]
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Blogs

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Video: Dr. John – Revolution [ Published May 14 2012 by Hidden Track ] In late March and early April, Dr. John was handed over the keys to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House, where he presented three consecutive weekends of curated performances entitled Dr. John Insides Out . The middle weekend ...
Music Legend disses Godney and Sam Lufti is tol... [ Published Apr 28 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] “The Zen of Bennett” was already bought by Netflix, where it will be available soon. Tony, who had not seen the film before tonight, was overwhelmed. He introduced his long time friend, Harry Belafonte, from the audience. He introduced Mitch Winehouse ...
Homeland resonates to jazz – but what other sho... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by TV and radio blog \| guardian.co.uk ] Carrie listens to Thelonius Monk, while Treme is also filled with jazz, proving a powerful soundtrack can enhance any TV plot The squeaks and squalls of jazz are an essential part of Homeland. Music features frequently in the Channel 4 US import, from ...
Murray Gershenz’s 300,000-plus record collectio... [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Pop & Hiss ] Murray Gershenz has spent nearly three quarters of a century collecting the albums that fill the dusty wooden shelves of his two-story West Adams record shop. From opera classics to big band, country western, jazz, R&B and rock, Gershenz has lived ...
'The Voice' recap: The live shows kick off [ Published Apr 03 2012 by Show Tracker ] With the battle rounds at its back, "The Voice" kicked off its live shows Monday night. The members of Team Blake and Team Christina -– with six singers apiece -– each took the stage solo to vie for viewers' votes. If I understood Carson Daly correctly ...

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Sunday Passage: Louis Armstrong [ Published Apr 29 2012 by CBS - YouTube ]
Armstrong's Final Performance Released [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Associated Press - YouTube ]
Newly recovered Louis Armstrong recording [ Published Apr 27 2012 by CBS - YouTube ]