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Saxophonist Tubby Hayes made history in 1961 as the first English jazz soloist to officially perform in an American club. Hayes expert and biographer Simon Spillett tells the story of this one-man jazz invasion

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MSRP: $39.99 The Production: 4/5 Public school music teacher Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx) may have just gotten his first big break in the music industry: the chance to play piano for jazz great Dorothea Williams (voiced by Angela Bassett), despite his mother (Phylicia Rashad) suggesting, in fact insisting, he take the full time teaching position he was just offered by the school district. Before getting the chance to play in front of a live audience, Joe falls down a manhole on his way ho...

Not only has this last year been hard on us music fans, but its been more difficult for the venues where we used to go see our favorite artists — before March of last year. We can only imagine the huge financial loss that a full year of closure has caused for local venues. For owners and their staff, however, as we saw with Hodis Half Note, Three Kings and others, shuttering permanently can be a really scary reality. But, weve all been hopeful that aid from somewhere would help the sh...

Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Naim): “Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed...

WHITE PLAINS, Westchester County (WABC) -- A woman was able to reunite with her husband for their first in-person visit since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Harriet and Jerry Shenkman were finally able to be together in the same room Wednesday at The Bristal at White Plains. "Its been quite an experience, and not something Id ever imagine in my lifetime," Harriet said. Overcoming the dual challenge of a pandemic and cognitive decline, Jerry has spent the last three years battling Alzhei...

Soul, including the ending.] is Pixar’s first film with a Black protagonist, but the story never accepts the narrative complexities of Blackness. It’s a film where the Black character is either a blue blob or a cat for much of the action, but is rarely in his own Black body. It’s a film where a supposedly raceless character takes over a Black body, causing the Black character to minimize his own dreams for a symbiotic good. Soul opens as a story about finding individual purpose in life. ...