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Midway through “Summer of Soul,” the new Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson-directed documentary that premieres Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, a dashing, dashiki-wearing Jesse Jackson steps to the microphone. It’s 1969, and the young reverend is appearing in New York City before about 50,000 people at Mount Morris Park as part of the Harlem Cultural Festival. Behind Jackson awaits bandleader Ben Branch, gospel legend Mahalia Jackson, rising young belter Mavis Staples and others. The ...

Andrew Gilbert January 25, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:35 am Wynton Marsalis kicks off Sonoma’s online series with “The Democracy! Suite.” Photo: Erika Goldring , Getty Images 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has long championed jazz as an art form that embodies democratic ideals, and during an interview with The Chronicle in the midst of Inauguration Day festivities, he often evoked some of the same soaring tropes that poet Amanda Gorman threaded th...

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WFAE TAfo Feimster stands next to "NC 8," a mural he and fellow artist Abel Jackson just completed at 1600 W. Trade St. in Charlotte. The mural depicts eight legendary Black musicians from North Carolina. Almost as soon as you head west from uptown Charlotte into the historic Biddleville neighborhood, you’re greeted with public art. As construction crews worked on West Trade Street near where an extension of the Gold Line Streetcar is coming on a recent morning, color popped behind them. On...

This article is more than 2 months old Crises may harden the resilience of some young people. But it won’t happen without a dedicated plan Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film version of The Right Stuff. Photograph: Moviestore/Shutterstock Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film version of The Right Stuff. Photograph: Moviestore/Shutterstock Sun 24 Jan 2021 03.45 EST Last modified on Sun 24 Jan 2021 04.05 EST Sir John Bell, who is at the centre of Britain’s Covid vaccination pr...

Oh hell ya: musicians react to Pixar Studios Soul The animated feature about a jazz musician is striking a chord for its accurate portrayal of performance and the artistic imperative. Social Sharing The movie about a middle-school band teacher is striking a chord for its portrayal of musical performance Posted: Jan 14, 2021 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 14 In Pixar Studios Soul, Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the opportunity to play the gig of a lifetime.(Pixar Animat...

Mary Lou Williams, third from left, with friends in her New York apartment (photo: Alamy). In 1954 in Paris, the pianist Mary Lou Williams walked off the jazz bandstand at age 44, suddenly and at the very height of her fame. She had finally succumbed to her midlife panic and bouts of self-loathing that were enough to make just about anyone want simply to exit the stage. Thus began a chain of events leading to her conversion to Catholicism and to a new life’s purpose in composing jazz Masses ...

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Rush Drummer Neil Peart: Master Student Neil Peart (Photo by Clayton Call/Redferns — Getty Images) The band Rush has a huge fan base at home in Canada and around the world, but despite having a big appreciation for their musicianship, I’ve never counted myself among them. (Please don’t @ me.) In reading Brian Hiatt‘s moving Rolling Stone retrospective in which family, friends, and bandmates remember the late Neil Peart, Rush’s drummer, I learned a lot that deepened my respect for th...

Special Programs for January 18 thru January 23 Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: “The Hits” The Short List continues its look at jazz tunes that became popular hits. This week, host Bob Naujoks visits songs that scored high on the pop charts Tune in to hear songs and stories from Herb Alpert and “Taste Of Honey,” Ray Anthony and “Peter Gunn,” Peggy Lee’s “Fever,” Dick Hyman and “Three-Penny Opera,...