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Jazz on Film: A Woman’s Place is In the Groove Share For much of the history of jazz, this has largely been the deal. If you’re a cute woman who can sing, there’s a place for you on the bandstand. If you can play the piano, maybe there is room for you as well. But leave the real instruments, the soloing and all the rest to the men. For all the freedom and liberation that has been intimately associated with the history of Jazz, the struggles of women to find and secure their righ...

PSO’s Louis Armstrong tribute a Roaring ’20s redux The streaming concert features jazz musician Byron Stripling, who believes were on the brink of another cultural renaissance. Share Byron Stripling performs the music of Louis Armstrong with the Portland Symphony. Armstrong’s audacious music was a product of the roaring 20s. Stripling thinks the next Louis Armstrong will emerge in years ahead. Photo by Sean Turi, courtesy of Portland Symphony Orchestra Related Byron Stripling has a hun...

PSO’s Louis Armstrong tribute a Roaring ’20s redux The streaming concert features jazz musician Byron Stripling, who believes were on the brink of another cultural renaissance. Share Byron Stripling performs the music of Louis Armstrong with the Portland Symphony. Armstrong’s audacious music was a product of the roaring 20s. Stripling thinks the next Louis Armstrong will emerge in years ahead. Photo by Sean Turi, courtesy of Portland Symphony Orchestra Related Byron Stripling has a hun...

The worlds greatest cities for music lovers Dream of 25 places where you can to dance to, delight in and listen to different musical styles New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival is one of its many musical treats Credit: Getty For all the perils of the past 10 months, music has been a great constant – the firm friend who has stayed with us, providing solace with inspiring songs and favourite tracks; a consolatory sound-track to tough times that is never inaudible, however hard the wind is howli...

Just as jazz musicians arrange countless combinations of notes and rhythms to create unique songs, people with disabilities navigate a multitude of challenges to create extraordinary lives. Organizers of the South Beach Jazz Festival want Miami audiences to know that living with a disability doesn’t make anyone any less capable, particularly when it comes to achieving their dreams. In its fifth year, the festival aims to share the diverse rhythms and styles that comprise jazz music and the mu...

Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis in August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” streaming on Netflix. Photo courtesy of Netflix. Just as every premiere of an August Wilson play on Broadway was a major event, every film based on his plays should shake the earth beneath our feet. Especially for those of us who, being white, get to know Wilson’s characters from the outside looking in, film adaptations like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” should be a clarion call for all of us to listen ...

The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Casual listeners think of him as a gentle giant of jazz, but critics and African Americans often saw him as a sell out or ‘Uncle Tom’. A new book aims to show how radical ‘Pops’ really was EdPrideaux Thu 17 Dec 2020 05.08 EST Last modified o...

Telling you about. a witness described the scene as mayhem when gunshots broke out during the third quarter of the state playoff game between hampton and -- [inaudible] [background sounds] >> what you saw was a wave of people coming away from the shooting, parents holding their babies and little children so they werent injured -- [inaudible] people running away from the shooting. and i think part of the fence was -- [inaudible] from bodies of people just going over the fence. it was just a lot o...