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Looking back at The Barn, a bygone Wilmington jazz club where the greats came to play
Star News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBack in the 1940s and '50s, jazz was among the most popular forms of American music, particularly...
Exhibit meant to inspire viewers to dig deeper into the blues’ rich history
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoForty colorful folk-art style illustrations of many of the 20th century’s giants of the blues, as...
Hot starts for Grayson Allen, Brook Lopez propel Bucks to 144-116 victory over Jazz
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSALT LAKE CITY – The Milwaukee Bucks swept a season series against the Utah Jazz for just the second...
Perceptive and Delightful, Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues Brings One of America's Greatest...
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLouis Armstrong in 'Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues' Credit - Courtesy of Apple TV+ Determining the...
23 Boomer Sayings That We Should Honestly Bring Back
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGrowing up in the digital age meant living in a world consumed by meme-culture and Reddit threads, learning how to Insta-pose and cram thoughts into a...
Gag Me With a Spoon! The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite '80s Idioms
First for Women via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe '80s was a time of excess: big hair, dramatic makeup, colorful clothes, and bold pop music...
George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a...
Tramel's ScissorTales: Dunce caps for ACC & Pac-12 commissioners over playoff rejection
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWe don’t use the word “dunce” much anymore. Too many psychological ramifications. Dunce caps were...
Louis Armstrong’s Serious Showmanship
The Wall Street Journal· 2 weeks agoESSAY Sophisticated artist or folk musician? Virtuoso or clown? The debate about Louis Armstrong raged in living rooms across mid-20th-century America....
How two legendary Black musicians made their bones
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe middle of the 20th century was a remarkably fertile period for musical innovation, much of it fueled by Black artists contending with a country unwilling to relinquish its racist power structure ...
