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Obama should follow Carter's lead and bring jazz back to the White House
If President-elect Barack Obama wants to make a bold cultural statement—one that resonates deeply with his autobiography and with the legacy of his adopted hometown, Chicago—there's a compelling way to do it: Teach the White House to swing...Tags: Pennsylvania, John Coltrane, Music Industry, Jazz Music, Tony Bennett
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Jazz legends who called Queens, Long Island home
martin.evans@newsday.comJohn Coltrane was not the only jazz great to eschew Manhattan for points east. Here are the other legends, living and dead, who've made their homes on Long Island and in Queens. MOSE ALLISON, Smithtown After growing up in a Mississippi Delta cotton town...Tags: Lionel Hampton, John Coltrane, Music Industry, Mose Allison, Duke Ellington
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From here to eternity
Tom Beer is a freelance writer.Herman Melville, Irving Berlin and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia are there. Also suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, journalist Damon Runyon and publisher Joseph Pulitzer. They're all together at Woodlawn Cemetery, a 400-acre graveyard in the...Tags: Celia Cruz, Sculpture, Music Industry, Duke Ellington, Book
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The Queens Jazz Trail
In January 1966, during the transit strike, Phil Schaap, then a teenager living in Hollis and already a a huge jazz fan, devised a plan to meet one of his idols, Count Basie. New York City Mayor John Lindsay and other luminaries took to the airwaves to...Tags: Music Industry, Lincoln Center, Tony Bennett, Imperial and Royal Matters, Earl Warren Jr.
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Jazz review, Sir Charles Thompson at the Jazz Showcase
Tribune Arts CriticThe last time Sir Charles Thompson remembers playing in Chicago, it was 1940 or '41, the bandleader was Lionel Hampton and the club was the Grand Terrace Ballroom on the South Side. Nearly 60 years later, Thompson has swung back into town to open the...Tags: Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Charlie Parker
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