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Opinion: For the greats of the jazz age, life on the road was perilous as well as glamorous
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 days agoDuke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong created a template for what it means for a musician...
Red Bank's Basie Center Cinemas now serving booze
NJBIZ· 1 day agoIn announcing the launch of its alcohol service, the historic, independent twin cinema said it will – to the largest extent possible – feature products...
How Jazz Became the Voice of Revolution
Time via Yahoo News· 6 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...
Bronze Charlie Parker stood 20 years at 18th & Vine: So what’s the story behind it?
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoBird’s brilliance on the saxophone revolutionized improvisation and pushed jazz into another level...
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...
B.B. King gifted one of his Lucille guitars to the Pope – it’s now up for auction
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBB King performs on stage at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey, United States, January 2...
'I cannot have lost my son for nothing': Films share stories of those left behind by suicides
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoSo they formed a nonprofit named in Mary Yahara’s honor, “Mary’s Garden Media,” to fund the...
"An effortless command of musical time”: A music professor breaks down Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
MusicRadar via Yahoo News· 6 days ago(Roger Linn’s drum machines apply swing at the sixteenth note level, not the eighth note level, but...
Bill Holman, Whose Arrangements Shaped West Coast Jazz, Dies at 96
New York Times· 4 days agoMr. Holman’s longtime collaboration with Mr. Kenton, first as a saxophonist in his band and later as...
Music: Big-Band Jazz
Time Magazine· 6 days agoThe holiday crowd quieted and the music took over, its tones pure and glassy, its melody suggested almost as much as stated, its long moments of silence as pregnant as the notes themselves.
