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Venables Theatre has booked a four-piece jazz band to help celebrate the finale of Festival of the Grape in Oliver later this year.

Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, these Black musicians were fighting discrimination and segregation on the bandstand.

The clarinetist has written hundreds of songs and documents the musics history

From Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock and Brad Mehldau, here’s a quick fandango through jazz’s hall of fame

Wynton Marsalis: Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives Hot Sevens Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; eight band members Blue Engine Records (auditioned as 24/48 FLAC). 2023. Marsalis, exec. prod.; Saundra Palmer-Grassi, Todd Whitelock, engs. Performance ***** Sonics ****

Scheelar played jazz for over 50 years. In 1966, he opened Earl's New Orleans House in Berkeley, serving Louisiana food and music.

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Leading trad jazz clarinettist and saxophonist who spent the other half of his life as a computer and IT specialist

The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.

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Sippie Wallace was born Beulah Belle Thomas at Plum Bayou (Jefferson County) on Nov. 1, 1898. She was one of 13 children born to Fanny and George W. Thomas Sr.