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The Crawford Grill was a renowned jazz club that operated in two locations in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During its heyday in the 1950s and 60s, the second Crawford Grill venue hosted local and nationally-recognized acts, including jazz legends Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Kenny Burrell. The club, an important social ...
Kansas City jazz is a style of jazz that developed in Kansas City, Missouri during the 1920s and 1930s, which marked the transition from the structured big band style to the much more improvisational style of bebop. The hard- swinging, bluesy transition style is bracketed by Count Basie, who in 1929 signed with Bennie Moten 's Kansas City Orchestra, and Kansas City native Charlie Parker, who ...
Piano. organ. Years active. 1924–1984. William James " Count " Basie ( ⫽ ˈbeɪsi ⫽; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) [1] was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording.
Nov. 16—If you've been to the River Street Jazz Cafe recently, you know it hosts much more than jazz. "Now it's any genre of music," said owner Rob Friedman, whose love for jazz and blues led ...
Dunn is a jazz saxophonist, the leader of a group called the Jazz Disciples, and the general manager of the Blue Room, one of the city’s best-known jazz clubs.
L.A. jazz reeled when Highland Park's ETA closed. There's still great music, but clubs are nervous.
The mission of the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, Inc. is to celebrate and preserve the legacy of jazz through accessible education for the Greater Philadelphia region, and to support the evolving art form through talent development, programming, and public performance.
Musikfest is rooted in the Bethlehem area's German roots, and most of the festival's venues use Platz, the German word for place or square, at the end of their names. A popular place for eating and listening to music, for example, is the large "Festplatz", which includes 300 dining tables, and usually features a polka band each night. Beyond that, however, Musikfest's music, food, and other ...