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Dazz Band. The Dazz Band is an American R&B / funk band most popular in the early 1980s. Emerging from Cleveland, Ohio, the group's biggest hit songs include "Let It Whip" (1982), "Joystick" (1983), and "Let It All Blow" (1984). The name of the band is a portmanteau of the description "danceable jazz".
agoracleveland.com. The Agora Theatre and Ballroom (commonly known as the Cleveland Agora, or simply, the Agora) is a music venue located in Cleveland, Ohio. Gary LoConti opened the first Agora on February 27, 1966, near the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Gary’s concept of promoting live entertainment for young adults ...
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 ...
October 5, 1978. Playhouse Square is a theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. [2] It is the largest performing arts center in the US outside of New York City (only Lincoln Center is larger). [3] Constructed in a span of 19 months in the early 1920s, the theaters became a major entertainment hub for the city for much of the ...
February 5, 1931 (1931-02-05) Reopened. 2000. Architect. Walker and Weeks. Website. clevelandorchestra.com. Severance Hall, also known as Severance Music Center, [ 1 ] is a concert hall in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, home to the Cleveland Orchestra. Opened in 1931 to give the orchestra a permanent home, the building ...
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts ...
Dominick Farinacci (born March 3, 1983) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He is currently signed to the Mack Avenue label. [1] Farinacci was one of eighteen artists worldwide invited to be a part of the inaugural class of the Jazz Studies Program at The Juilliard School. Farinacci has won the "International New Star ...
The Great Lakes Exposition (also known as the World Fair of 1936) was held in Cleveland, Ohio, in the summers of 1936 and 1937, along the Lake Erie shore north of downtown. [ 1 ] The fair commemorated the centennial of Cleveland's incorporation as a city. [ 2 ] Conceived as a way to energize a city hit hard by the Great Depression, it ...