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Sunday, May 6 Lecture The Columbia Jewish Congregation Adult Education Committee presents Dr. Carolivia Herron speaking on "Out of Africa: Jewish Stories From Ethiopia And Zimbabwe" at 9:30 a.m. at Oakland Mills High School, 9410 Kilimanjaro Road in...Tags: Clarksville, Colleges and Universities, PTA, Benny Goodman, Photography and Video
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Dunbar High School resurrects marching band
Band teacher Charles Funn's voice thundered in a classroom at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, shouting the names of familiar Southern foods as a way to help the students to find their rhythm. You can feel both, he explained, in your soul.
"Fried...Tags: Minority Groups, Music Industry, Colleges and Universities, African Americans, Arts
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Film helps African-Americans remember a lively Carr's Beach
Decades ago, a trip to segregated Ocean City presented far too many challenges for African-American families. Instead they went to a sandy peninsula near Annapolis, known as "the beach," for a day's outing.
Carr's Beach — its proper name —...Tags: Minority Groups, Arts, Chicago Hotels, Companies and Corporations, eBay Inc.
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Cab Calloway
Sun ReporterCab Calloway, the swing-era singer, actor and bandleader who soared to national popularity in the '30s and '40s on the strength of such hits as "Minnie the Moocher" and "It Ain't Necessarily So," has died at the age of 86. The Baltimore-bred musician...Tags: Lena Horne, Clubs and Associations, Opera (genre), Music Industry, Al Jolson
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For Robinson, acting is a whole new ballgame
Sun StaffTonight at 8, Frank Robinson makes his national acting debut on "The Cosby Show" on Channel 2 (WMAR-TV) The episode was taped in New York two months ago. Sun reporter Mary Corey spent the afternoon on the set, interviewing and observing the budding...Tags: Frank Robinson, Armand Hammer, Television, Bill Cosby, Cincinnati Reds
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The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim
VarietyOne legend pays tribute to another with "The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim," an all-music homage compiled by Cinema Novo helmer Nelson Pereira dos Santos with the composer's granddaughter Dora Jobim. The most identifiable Brazilian songwriter of...Tags: Music, Music Industry, Frank Sinatra
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Jazzman Perez reaches out to the world
In the brief history of jazz, several extravagantly gifted musicians have transcended their roles as virtuoso performers to become bona fide cultural ambassadors for this country and its greatest musical export — jazz. Louis Armstrong and Dizzy...
Tags: Panama, University of Chicago, Music Industry, UNICEF, Global Expansion
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A summit of Chicago jazz for NATO weekend
This week's NATO meeting may have put a chill on attendance Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, but it didn't turn down the temperature on the music making a bit. So even if the all-star group of Chicago musicians played to a smallish audience, the...
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Penn & Teller pianist Mike Jones swings back into the Mill
Everyone who follows jazz piano knows that pianist Mike Jones follows nobly in the tradition of soloists such as Dave McKenna, Dick Hyman and Jon Weber – hyper-virtuosos who apply a streamlined bravura to the great American songbook. But this...
Tags: Music Industry, Penn Jillette, Charlie Parker, Emmett Till, Music
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Sanchez and Blanchard only hint at Gillespie-Pozo glories
Could America be reawakening to the beauties of Dizzy Gillespie's romance with Latin jazz? On Tuesday, Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval releases "Dear Diz" (Concord Jazz), a Gillespie homage packed with Afro-Cuban classics such as "Tin Tin Deo" and...
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A splendid run for Marsalis' JALC Orchestra – with 1 singer too many
The most haunting moment of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's three-concert Chicago residency came late Friday night, and it barely rose above a whisper. With an overflow audience crowded onto the stage of Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, the band...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Ravinia Festival, Natalie Cole, Count Basie, Duke Ellington
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Jazz meets classics: A Chicago pianist teams with Orion Ensemble
When Chicago pianist Miguel de la Cerna was growing up on the South Side, the sound of jazzand blues, gospel and funk, R&B and soul was everywhere. It blasted out of clubs and apartments, car radios and storefronts, inspiring a kid growing up near 41st...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, Music Industry, Old Town School of Folk Music, Terence Blanchard, George Gershwin
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