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Founded by abolitionists, a stop on the Underground Railroad and the first institution to award college degrees to African Americans, Oberlin College is firmly rooted in Black History and has been celebrating February as Black History Month since before
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“Rudresh’s immense talent and tremendous loyalty to Yamaha made him an ideal pick for our artist roster,” said John Wittmann, Director, Artist Relations, Yamaha Corporation of America. “His musicality and creativity transcend culture and genres.” Yamaha
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She was performing poetry at a fundraiser for political prisoners. She was dynamic, beautiful, uncompromising, tender, strong, fiery, cool, with a voice and poetic flow that had the melodiousness of Betty Carter and the intensity if John Coltrane’s sax. I was blown away!
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Almost 30 years after their parents opened the original Texas French Bread near the University of Texas, Murph and Ben Willcott decided to take the Austin institution in a bold new direction. Judy and Paul Willcott opened the original Texas French Bread
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Questlove has been given the job of molding Blue Ivy Carter’s musical taste. He revealed that he will be making a nursery friendly iPod especially for Blue, a promise he made in a magazine article several months ago. He said: “He’s (Jay) absolutely elate
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EDMONTON - With one foot in jazz and another in hip-hop, Robert Glasper seems poised for a musical future beyond genre. “It’s all part of the same tree,” says the Brooklyn-based keyboard player who brings his quartet Experiment to Edmonton on Friday. “Ja
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Somebody starts playing the saxophone for the first time, they're not going to sound like John Coltrane
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Pandit Ravi Shankar was born April 7, 1920, in Benares. Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury (later renaming himself Ravi Shankar) began performing at the age of 11 after being initiated into music and dance a year earlier by his eldest brother, Uday Shankar. As
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How do you draw a comic about sound? This is the problem the Bologna-based artist Paolo Parisi attempts in Coltrane (Jonathan Cape, £12.99 ***), which draws on biographical material, newspaper articles, contemporary photos and interviews to tell the life
About John Coltrane
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John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina — July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Full Article
