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Yoshi's Jazz Club, Jack London Square, Oakland: 5 Colorado. Dazzle (Denver Performing Arts Complex), Denver: 5 Connecticut. Firehouse 12, New Haven: 2 The Side Door Jazz Club, Old Lyme: 2 District of Columbia. Blues Alley, Georgetown, Washington: 3 Bohemian Caverns, U Street, Washington
Jazz. The "King of Jazz", bandleader Paul Whiteman, was born in Denver, Colorado on March 28, 1890. From the 1920s-50s, Welton Street in Five Points was home to over fifty bars and clubs, where some of the greatest jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and others performed.
Charles Burrell (born October 4, 1920) is a classical and jazz bass player most prominently known for being the first African-American to be a member of a major American symphony (the Denver Symphony Orchestra, now known as the Colorado Symphony ). For this accomplishment he is often referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of Classical Music".
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown in 1940s Duke-Peacock Records publicity photo. Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. [1] He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1983 for his album, Alright Again!
6:30 p.m. — Special ticketed performance by 10-time Grammy-winning jazz legend Arturo Sandoval with the Cavalcade of Jazz Big Band under the direction of Marko Marcinko Sunday, May 5:
September 2 – Van Halen concludes its 1984 world tour with a show in Nuremberg, Germany as part of the Monsters of Rock festival tour. This would be the band's last concert with David Lee Roth as lead singer until 2007. September 7 – Janet Jackson elopes with fellow singer James DeBarge. The marriage would be annulled in 1985.
The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued. The group composed and recorded many jazz standards, the most famous being "Tiger Rag". In late 1917, the spelling of the band's name was changed to Original ...
The 10th annual induction ceremony into the Jazz Walk of Fame was held Saturday, June 8, 2024 in front of the Gem Theater at 18th and Vine in Kansas City. Patti Austin, Roberta Flack and Bob James ...