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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.
Chitlin' Circuit. The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated ...
The Jazz Temple. Coordinates: 41°30′32.2″N 81°36′17.1″W. The Jazz Temple was a coffeehouse / nightclub located in the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio. The club's name was chosen by the owner, Winston E. Willis, to symbolize a devout gathering place dedicated to the icons of the jazz world where these artists would be ...
Montgomery (AL) County attorney, civil rights leader and Alabama's first Black judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Macon County, AL. [5] William Cousins: Beta: Retired Illinois State Appellate Judge; Former Chicago Alderman, [5] George Crockett III: Pi: Judge, Recorder's Court (Detroit); served on the same bench as his father, Judge George ...
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 ...
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The Magic City Jazz Orchestra ( MCJO) is an American jazz ensemble which was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the SuperJazz Big Band (formerly UAB SuperJazz) by Birmingham, Alabama jazz pianist and vocalist Ray Reach. [1] The mission of the group is to "...perform and record big band jazz music written by well known but under-recorded jazz ...
Carl Warwick (musician) Dinah Washington. Marzette Watts. Fred Wesley. Cootie Williams. Elmer Williams (saxophonist) Nelson Williams (trumpeter) Categories: Musicians from Alabama.