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4 days ago · Satchmo Summerfest Louis Armstrong House and Museum Queens, NY August 3-5, 2018 jny: New Orleans, the birthplace of Louis Armstrong celebrated August 4th, 2018 with this three day affair for the eighteenth year produced by French Quarter Festivals at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint in the French Quarter.
4 days ago · On both recordings, the tonal structure is bare bones. The pattern of attack points is the emphasis, not the pattern of pitches as if the guitar were an African drum or idiophone. Alexander Stewart states that this popular feel was passed along from "New Orleans—through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s".
4 days ago · The cornet player, known as the first king of New Orleans music and a father of jazz, was born on this day (September 6) in Today's Song of the Day comes courtesy of the Wynton Marsalis-produced soundtrack to Bolden, a film that reimagines the life of the enigmatic and mysterious early jazz figure Charles "Buddy" Bolden.
4 days ago · Born in 1908 in St. Louis, Russell was exposed to New Orleans musicians when he was ten and caught the jazz bug. He wasn’t much for school, got his first gig at eleven, and was fully employed as a musician by the mid-1920’s. Almost from the beginning, Russell’s playing polarized listeners and other musicians.
1 day ago · BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Saturday, May 4, Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage, 12p Saturday, May 4, Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 2:50p. In February, the world’s most famous Cajun band celebrated its 50th anniversary year with two nights of concerts.
2 days ago · Fats Domino, born Antoine Domino Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the most iconic and influential singers to emerge from the state. His distinctive blend of rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie ...
12 hours ago · Famous fans react to the death of Allman Brothers singer, songwriter and guitarist Dickey Betts, who died at 80. “Dickey wrote quintessential Brothers songs including “Blue Sky,” “Rambling ...
