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Over the course of three consecutive years, New Orleans singer, banjo player and guitarist Don Vappie scored a triple crown of honors.

Charles McPherson, one of the great alto saxophonists of the 20th century, will celebrate his 84th birthday at Dizzy’s.

The story of the Gibson-toting guitarist who lit the fire on a six-string revolution that paved the way for rock ’n’ roll

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, likely née Rosie Etta Atkins, (born March 20, 1915, Cotton Plant, Arkansas, U.S.—died October 9, 1973, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), American guitar player and gospel and blues singer who was popular in the 1930s and ’40s. She sang traditional gospel songs with contemporary jazz tempos that she played on her electric guitar. With these performances she introduced gospel into nightclubs and concert venues. Her work influenced early rock and rollers such as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley. Tharpe was the daughter of farm labourer Willis...

They held the wedding at Griffith Stadium, home to Washington's old Major League Baseball team, the Senators. The bride from Arkansas and her procession walked a satin carpet from the dugout to an altar at second base. And those who shared in the festivities on July 3, 1951, reportedly more than 19,000 of them, were mostly Black women who paid from 90 cents to $2.50 a ticket: roughly $10 to $30 in today's dollars.