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Violinist Bette Byers spent decades in Hollywood playing music for countless films and TV shows, backing performers such as Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, Billy Eckstine, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Tom Jones ... the list would take up the whole page! She started her training at age 4, and by 18 she was a professional musician. Now in her mid-80s, she "retired" to Santa Maria a few years ago, but like a true artist, she can't stop playing with her group The Candlelight Strings or stop creating. Her new record is Ragtime Musicale: Music For Silent Films, available on cdbaby.com. ...

Ted Brown: the man who held a mass kiss-in and made history Ted Brown: ‘I felt that we were continuing the legacy of the civil rights march.’ Photograph: Tristan Bejawn/The Guardian After a tumultuous childhood, he helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride in 1972 – going on to battle against homophobic media, in a lifetime devoted to change Thu 8 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT On 1 July 1972 Ted Brown walked through central London, stopped at Trafalgar Square for a kiss – and made history. He was at the event he had helped to organise, the UK’s first official Gay Pride, in which more than 2,...

The Pittsburgh Courier chronicled history of Black Americans By MARYLYNNE PITZ, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMarch 6, 2021 GMT PITTSBURGH (AP) — As a teenager, Robert Lee Vann plowed fields with an ox under the scorching North Carolina sun. But he didn’t plant seeds of justice until he came north for an education. After earning bachelor’s and law degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, the young attorney began writing in 1910 for a weekly newspaper called The Pittsburgh Courier. His goal, he wrote, was to “abolish every vestige of Jim Crowism in Pittsburgh.” ADVERTISEMENT For more than 4...

There’s Prince. Of course, there’s always Prince. But many came before, and many after. For Black History Month, the Star Tribune celebrates 30 Black music makers from Minnesota you should know. We also asked peers (and admirers) in the Black community to help define those musicians’ legacies. Listed chronologically, these acts became Minnesota’s ambassadors to the rest of the world, or reshaped things here at home Story by Jon Bream and Chris Riemenschneider • Star Tribune • Feb. 27, 2021 Illustration by Kevin Adams • Special to the Star Tribune Story by Jon Bream and Chris ...

John Coltrane Giant Steps   Album Type: Original recording remastered Similar CDs Samuel Chell | 02/12/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "It's understandable that the wider public prefers to "Giant Steps" the Coltrane of "Blue Trane," "My Favorite Things" (which established crossover cult status for Coltrane in the '60s), "A Love Supreme," the Ballads albums (with and without Johnny Hartman's vocals), perhaps the largely iconic album with the maestro, Duke Ellington, and finally the many dates with Miles, including, of course, "Kind of Blue"). But a musician or close follower of the "language" of ja...