5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Chicago Jazz
Explore the Windy City through tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Lester Bowie and the contemporary artists at the ...
Roberta Flack’s 10 Greatest Musical Moments
Once you put into perspective that chart-topping pop and R&B vocalist-composer Roberta Flack started her career accompanying ...
Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning ‘Killing Me Softly’ singer with an intimate style, dies at 88
Roberta Flack has died at 88. The Grammy-winning singer and pianist was known for her intimate vocal and musical style on ...
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The 50 Best Jazz Pianists Of All Time
He spent two years with Charles Mingus ... A classically-trained pianist, Lewis fused jazz with rhythm’n’blues and gospel music to forge a distinctive soul jazz style that spawned a host ...
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Tony DeSare to perform with West Texas Symphony at Wagner Noël
Singer, pianist and songwriter Tony DeSare will ... Elton John, Journey, Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis," WTS said in a press release. Ethan Willis, executive director of the West Texas Symphony ...
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Rob Brown
Immediately he reestablished ties with pianist Matthew Shipp whom he met in ... to NYC Rob met William Parker and formed a trio with Denis Charles that explored a slightly more traditional jazz trio ...
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Music at RIT
He is in the RIT Jazz Ensemble ... including the Governor General of Canada and even Prince Charles. Whether in an ensemble or performing solo with her sister Maria Fuller (an accomplished pianist ...
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The History Of Recorded Jazz
The first Black musicians to make a jazz record Among the contenders for the first Black musicians to make a jazz record are pianist Charles Prince ... and Meade Lux Lewis recorded 19 takes ...