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Johnson, a pioneering Black musician born in Philadelphia in 1792, was the first African American composer to publish sheet ...
Inc. Alpha Gamma Iota Omega Chapter invites the public to its "All White Jazz Brunch" scholarship fundraiser. Organizers said the event, which includes a meal, a live band and “endless mimosas ...
From 1987-2006, Dan White captured black and white portraits of jazz musicians in Kansas City. In a new addition to the series, White photographed current performers in color —including this ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Greenfield-Central High School Jazz Band is getting ready to “swing” into the summer. Students are putting the finishing touches on their program for the second ...
Memphis Central High School's jazz band won first place at the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival in New York. The band also won awards for Outstanding Trumpet ...
During the Jim Crow era in America, the world of jazz was one of the only places where Black and white people mixed together ... “Alphonso Trent and his band were the first Black musicians ...
On May 2, First Friday @ First Presbyterian will present the Sterling High School Jazz Band, under the direction of Shauna Snyder. The program is from 12:05 to 12:35 at the church at South Fourth ...
Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician Wynton Marsalis is the Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center ... Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition which is celebrating ...
The Michigan Jazz Festival's annual spring fundraiser will take place on Sunday, April 13, at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. The fundraiser will feature the Latin jazz group Aguankó, and ...
Students playing the baritone saxophone with the Clark College jazz band at the Clark College 57th annual Jazz Festival in 2019. Members of the jazz band were supposed to leave for Cuba on March ...
Jazz Chisholm Jr. is among the ... Baseball is a white sport. I feel like white people criticize everything that a black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds ...