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From Duke to Satchmo: Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris captures Harlem’s history

Posted on March 17, 2012 by | 2 Comments

He was known as ‘One Shot Harris’. Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris earned the nickname because he often captured his most moving images in his first take. Continue reading →

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Harlem Man Billy Taylor’s Jazz Story

Posted on April 4, 2011 by | Leave a comment

What’s jazz like when the musicians put down their instruments? Listen to Harlem JazzMobile founder and legend Billy Taylor shed new light on his story behind the music in a new Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio program. This podcast, features a conversation with jazz pianist Mr. Taylor, check it out today.

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Billy ‘Doc’ Taylor Has Passed (video)

Posted on December 30, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Continue reading →

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CeleBrate Jazzmobile Founder Billy Taylor

Posted on December 12, 2010 by | 1 Comment

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Harlem Housing Complex to be sold

Posted on February 4, 2010 by | Leave a comment

A judge has ordered the foreclosure sale of the historic Riverton Houses, a middle-class Harlem apartment complex.

Residents have included jazz pianist Billy Taylor; former Mayor David N. Dinkins; and former Motown Records vice president Suzanne de Passe. Clifford L. Alexander Jr. also lived there; he was secretary of the Army in the Carter administration.

State Supreme Court Justice Richard F. Braun ordered a public auction to satisfy the owner’s $240.6 million debt. Several groups have expressed interest.

Riverton was bought in 2005 by a company led by developer Laurence Gluck. It planned to replace rent-stabilized tenants with more profitable market-rate tenants.

Last month, it was announced that two massive middle-class complexes, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, would be turned over to creditors.

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Irene Reid: A Harlem Great dies

Posted on January 8, 2008 by | 2 Comments

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On Friday January 4th, the legend/vocalist Irene Reid, one of Harlem’s greatest vocalists that ever graced a stage, has passed. Continue reading →

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