In November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formally recognized jazz as a dynamic force for promoting peace, embra
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Dizzy Gillespie hardly requires an introduction. We spoke during his nightly-packed, eight-day stand at Gourmet Rendezvous in St. Louis. We had lunch at Kemoll’s: Dizzy with beef tips and noodles, me with pepperoni-stuffed calzoni, both of us fatties… More…
New York—Musicians here are mourning the sudden, unexpected death of young Charlie Christian, who died of tuberculosis March 2 while a patient at the Seaview Hospital on Staten Island. The bespectacled, personable Christian succumbed a few days… More…
