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Growing up in Compton in the 1960s, Deborah Swan always looked forward to visits from her grandfather, Leon Hefflin Sr. A handsome, dapper man who wore a suit and a hat, Hefflin was a perpetual tinkerer. He had built her brother's bunk bed and created an aromatic tincture, Leon's Foot Ointment. "He smoked a pipe and was very quiet. He never bragged about himself," Swan recalls. If he had been inclined to do so, he would've had plenty to say. Hefflin was a dreamer, a serial entrepreneur, a breaker of color barriers and the producer of the Cavalcade of Jazz, a trailblazing annual music festival...

Nicki & Patrick Adams – lynx (Sunnyside): “The collaborative essence of jazz ensures that the music is about making connections. These connections can be between individual musicians, different playing styles or even genres, as long as they are joined together in expressions through improvisation. Brothers Nicki and Patrick Adams have a natural bond that most musicians can never approximate with their peers. Their common upbringing and interests have also given them the idea to blend the aural tradition of jazz with the more written one of classical, with a unique approach that makes the...

Charles Luther Sifford : The first African American to play on the PGA Tour The Monroe News Who was Charles Sifford? Charles Luther Sifford was an American professional golfer who was the first African American to play on the PGA Tour. Lee Trevino referred to Sifford as the "Jackie Robinson" of golf, and Tiger Woods acknowledged that Sifford paved the way for his career. Early Life and Career Sifford was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1922. He began work as a caddy at the age of 13. He moved to Philadelphia when he was 17 years old, where he played against local Black ...

UpdatedTue, Feb 23, 2021 at 1:37 pm ET Reply Conversations About Jazz - Guest for 2/25/21 (Hammonds House Digital) On Thursday, February 25 at 7:30 pm (EST) Hammonds House Digital invites you to join us for Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions with host Carl Anthony. Carl's special guest will be jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin and they will discuss her career, sample some of her favorite songs, and delve into her latest CD, The Dream is You: Vanessa Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron. This free virtual program will stream on Hammonds House Museum's Facebook and YouTube channels. For more inform...

25 books for creating the ultimate Pittsburgh bookshelf (updated!) The perfect Pittsburgh bookshelf would be made of steel, of course. Preferably forged in the fires of Carrie Furnace from the melted facemasks of vanquished Ravens, and bookended by a bottle of Monongahela Pure Rye Whiskey at one end, and a gleaming Lombardi Trophy on the other. For a great Pittsburgh bookshelf, though, all you need are books. Fortunately, there are a lot of excellent Pittsburgh books out there — histories, biographies, novels, photography, even poetry (really!). For our purposes, we kept it limited to books...