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The Detroit Jazz Festival is back for another long Labor Day weekend of free first-class entertainment. It's expected to draw hundreds of thousands downtown across its four-day schedule.
Baker's Keyboard Lounge is a jazz club located at 20510 Livernois Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in May 1933 and is the oldest continuously operated jazz club in Detroit.
The second Riverfront Music Festival happens on Saturday, July 20, and Sunday, July 21, in downtown Detroit’s Hart Plaza, featuring major R&B acts at an affordable price in a time when concert ...
Blue Bird Inn, July 2011. The Blue Bird Inn, at 5021 Tireman, was a jazz night club in Detroit presenting music every night except Monday. An African American owned venue, by the end of the 1940s it was the most important live outlet for bop in the city. [1]
KUVO (89.3 MHz) is a non-profit FM radio station broadcasting mainly jazz music in a public radio format. Licensed to Denver, Colorado, KUVO is owned by Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc. KUVO's mission is to "provide distinctive music, news and informational programming reflecting the values and cultural diversity of their listener community." [2]
One of Detroit’s favorite international jazz musicians, singer-songwriter Michael Franks, will return to Detroit Saturday, Aug. 17.
Griot Galaxy [1] was an avant-garde jazz band led by Detroit saxophonist and poet Faruq Z. Bey. The band was founded in 1972 with drummer Tariq Samad, bassist Jaribu Shahid, and saxophonists Bey, Anthony Holland and David McMurray. Their first recorded appearance is often cited as coming from a 1976 album by Phil Ranelin entitled Vibes from the ...
The Grande Ballroom (/ ˈɡrændi / GRAND-ee) is a historic live music venue located at 8952 Grand River Avenue in the Petosky-Otsego neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. The building was designed by Detroit engineer and architect Charles N. Agree in 1928 and originally served as a multi-purpose building, hosting retail business on the first floor and a large dance hall upstairs. [2] During this ...