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HW Pick: 1930′s Vintage Harlem (video)

Posted on December 11, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Starting in Harlem with marchers, kids in the street, downtown to 34th Street… Continue reading →

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Books: Janee’s Canon

Posted on June 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Music

Jazz has become a part of America like apple pie and baseball, but Court Carney’s Cuttin’ Up: How Jazz Got America’s Ear shows a period in time when Jazz wasn’t accepted. Carney describes how the original people who created Jazz had to be sucked out of the art form so that it could become popular. Jazz was a highly criticized music genre, due to its elements that combine other genres of music.  Carney performs CPR onto the art form by injecting the people and the history back into the shell of what popular Jazz became. Continue reading →

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Frankie Manning (video)

Posted on May 25, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Obit

Frankie Manning dancing at a club in Harlem and New York City in the 1980′s…interview clips. He talks about the Count Basie Vs Chick Webb Lindy Hoppers battle at the Savoy.

Things change, and things stay the same.

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