Tag Archives: Jazz

The Friends of Chick Corea: Jazz at Lincoln Center

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By Rudy Collins
Chick Corea welcomed the audience to a great evening of fine Jazz at one the best programs of jazz at Lincoln Center just south of Harlem. Continue reading
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National Jazz Museum in Harlem May 2013 Schedule

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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz’s most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. Continue reading

HW Pick: Jessye Norman Does “Ask Your Mama” With Guestlove And Others At The Apollo (video)

Jessye NormanThis multi-media work brings to life Langston Hughes’ epic poem “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” with music spanning from Africa to the Americas, the South to the North, opera to jazz, gospel to be-bop. Continue reading

Jazz’s Top Female Artists to Headline Smoke

Smoke - InteriorMarch is National Women’s History Month, so Smoke Jazz and Supper Club-Lounge in South Harlem will host shows featuring several of the most celebrated female artists on modern jazz: Cynthia Holiday, Brianna Thomas, Dee Daniels and more. Continue reading

HW Shop: Duke Ellington Signed Contract, 1972

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A great piece Duke Ellington signed contract, it’s three pages long, dated October 1, 1972 on CBS letterhead, signed by Ellington in blue ink. Continue reading

Jazzmobile’s Jazzy Awards Presentation With Jimmy Heath

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HW Shop: Sarah Vaughan Signed Contract And Card

Sarah Vaughan Jazz Singer Signed Autograph Contract

Sarah Vaughan was an Apollo Theater favorite, the ‘the sassy one’ signed this contract on January 20, 1986. Continue reading

HW Shop: A Salue To Benny Carter Signed By Miles Davis, Benny Carter, James Williams, Whit Browne And Chris Carter

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Six jazz greats signed a program saluting Benny Carter. The program is inscribed and signed by “Miles Davis,” “Benny Carter,” “To Ed: Best wishes James Williams,” “To Ed: Best Regards Whit Browne,” “Chris Carter” and others. Continue reading

Ornette Coleman’s Harmolodic Studios, Harlem

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Harmolodic Recording Studios founded, designed by the American jazz composer and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and his son (and manager and drummer) Denardo at Harlem’s historic Lee Building at 103 East on West 125th in East Harlem, New York. Continue reading

Jeremy Pelt Forgets The Candles, Blows The Trumpet At Smoke

Forget the candles – jazz musician Jeremy Pelt is blowing the trumpet on his birthday! Continue reading