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How the US government used jazz to “save India” from the communists: Video

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How the US government used jazz to “save India” from the communists: Video

https://JazzBlues.EU June 19, 2018

In early May 1971, the great gospel singer Mahalia...

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Count Basie Collection: Band Leaders estate transfers nearly 1,000 artifacts to New Jersey university: Video

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Count Basie Collection: Band Leaders estate transfers nearly 1,000 artifacts to New Jersey university: Video

https://JazzBlues.EU June 18, 2018

The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) at Rutgers University-Newark,...

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Some people thought John Coltrane was going to end jazz. That he was anti-jazz: Video

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Some people thought John Coltrane was going to end jazz. That he was anti-jazz: Video

https://JazzBlues.EU June 17, 2018

Walking into the cool interiors of the Van Gelder...

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Musician Tuffus Zimbabwe mines Charleston history to aid Jenkins Institute: Video

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Musician Tuffus Zimbabwe mines Charleston history to aid Jenkins Institute: Video

https://JazzBlues.EU June 15, 2018

The Jenkins Institute for Children, founded by the Rev....

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8 clips of pioneering electric-blues artists in the early 1970s: Videos

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8 clips of pioneering electric-blues artists in the early 1970s: Videos

https://JazzBlues.EU June 12, 2018

By the early 1970s, the electric blues guitar reached...

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Art that could make you dizzy: The Responsive Eye: Video

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Art that could make you dizzy: The Responsive Eye: Video

https://JazzBlues.EU June 9, 2018

From February to April 1965, the Museum of Modern...

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There are a handful of 12 videos and 4 photos of Hal McKusick in action so you can get to know him, too

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There are a handful of 12 videos and 4 photos of Hal McKusick in action so you can get to know him, too

https://JazzBlues.EU June 8, 2018

Hal was an educator and always available, and he...

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Gil Evans didn’t include a piano for the original recording of Porgy And Bess, but Truesdell tweaked the arrangement slightly: Video

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Gil Evans didn’t include a piano for the original recording of Porgy And Bess, but Truesdell tweaked the arrangement slightly: Video

https://JazzBlues.EU June 5, 2018

When Ryan Truesdell was asked to catalog the manuscripts...

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