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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.
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 ...
Smooth Jazz Satellite Sirius XM Satellite Radio N/A N/A Website: WAEG: 92.3 MHz Smooth Jazz Terrestrial Perry Broadcasting: Evans Georgia (U.S. state) Website: WAJH: 91.1 MHz Smooth Jazz Terrestrial Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame: Birmingham Alabama: Website: WBGO: 88.3 MHz Mainstream Terrestrial Newark Public Radio Newark New Jersey: Website: WBRH ...
Killen, Alabama, U.S. Genres. Jazz. Occupation (s) Musician. Instrument (s) French horn, double bass. Willie Henry Ruff Jr. (September 1, 1931 – December 24, 2023) was an American jazz musician, specializing in the French horn and double bass, and a music scholar and educator, primarily as a Yale professor from 1971 to 2017.
List of jazz venues From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
Carl Warwick (musician) Dinah Washington. Marzette Watts. Fred Wesley. Cootie Williams. Elmer Williams (saxophonist) Nelson Williams (trumpeter) Categories: Musicians from Alabama.
The W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama, sponsored by the Music Preservation Society, Inc., in honor of Florence native W. C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues." The non-profit Music Preservation Society was formed in 1982, with the mission to preserve, present, and promote the musical heritage of Northwest Alabama.
Jazz of Birmingham. Jazz is a popular musical style in Birmingham and has been so since the 1920s. [1] Venues such as the Birmingham Palais pioneered British jazz [2] and lead to the establishment of a string of jazz clubs in the city such as The Rhythm Club and the Hot Club. [3] Today jazz remains a prominent part of the cities culture; events ...