2024 has more than proven to be an intense political year as the country has faced the assassination attempt of one candidate and then the withdrawal of another just four months before the polls open ...

The power of jazz / Quincy Jones -- The value of cultural diplomacy / Stuart W. Holliday -- Meridian meets the Jazz community / Curtis Sandberg -- The jazz ambassadors / Penny M. Von Eschen -- Louis ...

One of my favorite photos of Dizzy Gillespie is this one by Paul Slaughter. I love it because Dizzy has an expression not often seen in other images of the trumpet great. It's a before-the-gig look, ...

A 2024 election pop quiz. Who was the most famous—not to mention the most entertaining—third-party presidential candidate in the history of the United States? The answer is not comedian Pat Paulsen ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When the opportunity presented itself to support the expansion of the Harlem ...

Calling all Jazz buffs! We are pleased to bring you Dizzy Gillespie and His Jazz Giants as they perform at Magnolia Gardens as part of Spoleto 1984! Band members include greats Jon Hendrick, J.C.

In the Cold War-chilled late fifties, the world needed to know that freedom was the byword of the United States. Jazz—creative, spontaneous, and ostensibly integrated—fit the bill perfectly, and in ...

The annual Lakeland Jazz Festival, which takes place from March 17 to 19 at the college's Dr. Wayne L. Rodehorst Performing Arts Center (Building D), offers a celebration of jazz music with performers ...

In 1984, bassist John Lee got a call from his mentor, Bob Cranshaw, a longtime member of Sonny Rollins‘s group, asking if he wanted to fly down to Memphis to play with legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy ...