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Tag Archives: Louis Armstrong
Valaida Snow From Harlem To The High Hat
Valaida Snow (June 2, 1904 – May 30, 1956) was an African American jazz musician and entertainer. She was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Continue reading
Harlem Jazz Museum Acquires Trove By Greats
For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of “the Savory Collection.” Recorded from radio broadcasts in the late 1930s by an audio engineer named William Savory, it was known to include extended live performances by some of the most honored names in jazz — but only a handful of people had ever heard even the smallest fraction of that music, adding to its mystique. Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Savory, Doug Pomeroy, June M. Besek, Louis Armstrong, National Jazz Museum, Susan Schmidt Horning, Woody Guthrie
‘Drop Me Off In Harlem’, by Duke and Louis
Music
From margaretgloria
We checked out the movie Harlem Nights last night. At the end of the movie was this great song
“Drop Me Off In Harlem” by two greats Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Enjoy!
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Tagged Drop Me Off In Harlem, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, margaretgloria
Harlem’s Bojangles Saves the Yankees’
In the summer of 1938, Jake Powell, a journeyman Yankees outfielder, talked his way into trouble. During a pregame radio interview at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Powell said he spent the off-season as a police officer in Dayton, Ohio. Then, using a racial slur, he said he stayed in shape by hitting blacks over the head with his nightstick.
Powell was never a police officer in Dayton, but that was beside the point. His remark set off an uproar, even at a time when the Yankees and other major league teams did not field black ballplayers.
The Yankees’ front office, including Manager Joe McCarthy, tried to make light of Powell’s comment. But realizing that Harlem’s blacks represented a good chunk of their game-day patrons, the Yankees sought to quell the public-relations nightmare by reaching out to Bill Robinson, the popular black dancer nicknamed Bojangles. Robinson was known as the honorary mayor of Harlem as well as the Yankees’ No. 1 fan. Continue reading
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Tagged Bojangles, Harlem, Jake Powell, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, segregated, Yankees
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