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Black cultural greats helped America realize segregation had to be left in the past | Opinion
The Kansas City Star· 3 hours agoThis week’s 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s epoch-making Brown v. Board of Education ruling reminds us that the route to social change never is ...
How Jazz Became the Voice of Revolution
Time via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLouis Armstrong performs on the Kraft Music Hall TV show at NBC Studios in Brooklyn in June 1967. American jazz pianist and composer Count Basie...
New Jersey braces for another tax hike — NJ Top News
New Jersey 101.5 FM· 5 hours agoRyan Gunsauls, of Union Beach, was also accused of inappropriately touching two of the children, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office....
Red Bank's Basie Center Cinemas now serving booze
NJBIZ· 2 days agoIn announcing the launch of its alcohol service, the historic, independent twin cinema said it will – to the largest extent possible – feature products...
'I cannot have lost my son for nothing': Films share stories of those left behind by suicides
App.com | Asbury Park Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSo they formed a nonprofit named in Mary Yahara’s honor, “Mary’s Garden Media,” to fund the...
Grammy-winner David Sanborn, who grew up in Kirkwood, dies at 78
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 1 day agoKirkwood-raised saxophonist David Sanborn, a multiple Grammy Award-winning solo artist and sideman...
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Kneecaps
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoELI (13D: Lucky Thompson's birth name) ELI "Lucky" Thompson (1924-2005) was a tenor and soprano...
Bill Holman, Whose Arrangements Shaped West Coast Jazz, Dies at 96
New York Times· 5 days agoMr. Holman’s longtime collaboration with Mr. Kenton, first as a saxophonist in his band and later as...
Louis Armstrong’s Serious Showmanship
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoOr as Armstrong himself said more concisely, “Showmanship does not mean you’re not serious.” This essay is adapted from Larry Tye’s new book “The...
"An effortless command of musical time”: A music professor breaks down Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
MusicRadar via Yahoo News· 7 days ago(Roger Linn’s drum machines apply swing at the sixteenth note level, not the eighth note level, but...
