Feel the Music and Dancing of Dorothy! Feel the Emotions of Her Life…….Her Final New Beginning!! Walking in Dorothy Dandridges’s Shoes Her Final New Beginning! WANDA RAY WILLIS as DOROTHY DANDRIDGE 2016 NAACP Solo Musical Nominee in Limited Engagements SUNDAY Performances only APRIL 23..4PM until…
REMEMBERING FREDERICK DEWAYNE HUBBARD: “HUBB”
written by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy As this writer was trying to decide on subjects and artists to write about during Jazz appreciation month, “Hubb”, BKA Freddie Hubbard, came into my mind It’s not easy to write about an eclectic figure like Frederick Dewayne Hubbard. So I’m just going to go against all traditional musings about Hubbard, as…
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NORTH ON SOUTH CENTRAL AVE. THE MUSICAL SWUNG HARD TO A TRIUMPHANT NIGHT!
posted by Kamaad Tauhid @blues2jazzguy North on South Central Avenue, the jazz and dance musical took their audience in a time machine and harkened it back to 1940s/50s Los Angeles . Back to the days of a thriving economy spurred on by lot of wartime jobs and plenty of vice to loosen up some of that…
BLACK ARTHUR ! JAZZ ICON ARTHUR BLYTHE NEEDS YOUR HELP
posted by Robert J. Carmack @blues2jazzguy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v0-4McZ0AA Growing up during the early 1960s people of my generation was soaking up a lot of “STUFF” politically, socially,economically and musically… some of the big guns that were speaking to the progressive Black youth were the artists of the so-called Avant Garde movement like John Coltrane, Ornette…
UNSUNG JAZZ SAXOPHONIST ARTHUR BLYTHE REACHES FINAL CODA..1940-2017 RIP
By Robert J. Carmack photo from Duane Deterville collection COMING SOON …BLACK ARTHUR BLYTHE: A Jazz Perspective…April is JAZZ Appreciation Month
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES STEPNEY-YOUR MUSIC MADE THE DIFFERENCE RIP 1931 – 1976
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy The Great Musical Genius Charles Stepney Arranger/producer Charles Stepney is heard on gold and platinum hits by the Dells and Earth, Wind & Fire, as well as Chicago soul acts ranging from Rotary Connection to Terry Callier. While a staff arranger and producer at Chicago-based Chess Records, label artist…
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA MUSIC EDUCATOR MOURNED BY MANY
San Francisco Bay area jazz pianist, arranger, composer and educator from East Moline(Iowa) widely known as “The Jazz Professor” died Saturday evening at the age of 80 at his home in Oakland, Calif. July 1936 – March 2017 “Professor” Bell mentored and inspired many professional musicians as a college music professor and jazz band director. He also recorded several jazz albums and…
FATHER OF ROCK & ROLL CHUCK BERRY PASSES 1926 ~ 2017- In Loving Memory
The “Best of the Best in Music” of all genres as we say goodbye to the master Chuck Berry..“The Real King of Rock & Roll” “NUFF SAID!” posted by R.J. Carmack
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