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Brian Bouillon-Baker—one of the twelve children of the St. Louis-born entertainer, French Resistance fighter, and destroyer of stereotypes—visits France’s hall of “great men” for the induction of his Maman, the first woman of color to be so honored.
In the nineteen-sixties, artists such as Bo Diddley and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue played the prom at Pembroke-Country Day.
Sidney Bechet's best songs are the work of one of the seminal early jazz soloists, brilliant on both soprano saxophone and clarinet, with a wide vibrato.
Freddie Green is synonymous with swing guitar. Green enjoyed a 50-year career holding down the rhythm chair of Count Basie’s famed big band.
This week, Western media was full of praise for what they described as “Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to be inducted into France’s Pantheon”.