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Sixty years ago Kirk gave articulate commentary on jazz, including the heretical opinion that Ronnie Scott was better than Tubby Hayes

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Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

"Stairway to Heaven," "Imagine," and songs by John Denver, Mariah Carey, Louis Armstrong, The Police and more will be preserved by the Library of Congress for future generations.

Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

The PRJC Presents Ben Mauger's Vintage Jazz Band... - Wheaton, MD - The PRJC Presents Ben Mauger’s Vintage Jazz Band Knights of Columbus Rosensteel Hall** 9707 Rosensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, MD (From the Capital Beltway: North on Georgia Ave., Left (West) on Forest Glen Rd. (192), Right on Rosensteel Ave. Just 4 blocks from the Forest Glen ...

Video views of art in the world In conjunction with its current show, “Janaina Tschäpe: Between the Sky and the Water,” the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College is offering a video series tied to the career retrospective of the artist. On Saturday and Sunday, the museum will be showcasing some of Tschäpe’s video works that were created from 2000 to 2014 and touch on some of the painted and sculpted pieces featured in the exhibition. Showings start at the bottom of every hour and wil...

5 things to do with kids in Tampa Bay this week: April 12-18 The Bay Area Renaissance Festival is moving to Dade City, you can see sand sculptors at work for Earth Day on St. Pete Beach and there’s a spring festival in Pinellas Park.     A royal joust performance will be among the features of the Bay Area Renaissance Festival. The popular medieval festival is moving this year from its longtime home at MOSI in Tampa to Withlacoochee River Park in Dade City. It runs weekends through Ma...

Copy to Clipboard (Netflix) In what has been dubbed as Chadwick Bosemans Oscar-winning role already before the Netflix movie hit the streaming platform, Levee from Ma Raineys Black Bottom is a thing of beauty to witness. The character is a trumpet player in the titular Mother of Blues band that we encounter in the film by George C. Wolfe based on Ruben Santiago-Hudsons screenplay adapted from August Wilsons play. Right from the start, Levee is vivacious and ambitious - playing on the cloured ma...