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Alabama State University (ASU, Bama State, or Alabama State) is a public historically black university in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1867, during the Reconstruction era , it was one of about 180 " normal schools " established by state governments in the 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools.
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame (AJHF) is an organization and museum in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.It was founded in 1978, and opened as museum on September 18, 1993, with a mission "to foster, encourage, educate, and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz music as a legitimate, original and distinctive art form indigenous to America.
The Bama State Collegians is a student jazz orchestra made up of students at Alabama State University. This group was organized in the late 1920s by Len Bowden, Fess Whatley, and Paul Bascomb. [1] Bowden went on to direct the Navy's music program at Camp Robert Smalls during World War II. John Tuggle "Fess" Whatley (1895-1972) was inducted into ...
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars (AJHoF All-Stars) is a working jazz ensemble, featuring some of the finest jazz musicians Alabama has to offer. This group is the faculty of the Jazz Education Department of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and the faculty of the Fun With Jazz Educational Program, begun through the Alys Stephens Center (2006), and now administered by the Alabama Jazz Hall ...
WVAS. WVAS (90.7 FM) is a jazz -music formatted radio station in the Montgomery, Alabama, market licensed to the Alabama State University. WVAS is a member-supported non-commercial, educational station featuring news and other programming from National Public Radio and Public Radio Exchange. National programming produced by WVAS includes Café ...
Pages in category "Jazz ensembles from Alabama" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Bama State Collegians; M. Magic City Jazz Orchestra; W.
MONROE — The Big Gig! is Saturday. Big Gig! is part of the Monroe County Library System’s annual Black History Month Blues Series. This year's event will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 in the La ...
Jazz music departments in the music colleges of the USSR began in 1974, the first being at the Gnessin State Musical College. Professor Igor Bril (born 1944) and Oseychuk Alexander are credited as being pioneers of jazz education in Russia. 1982: American School of Modern Music of Paris: Jazz courses started by Stephen Carbonara. 1986: