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 Remembering Chick Webb (died 16 June 1939, at 30)

 

The Chick Webb Memorial Index

Page for Music & Musicians

  Chick Webb: Baltimore's Jazz Giant  by Amin Sharif 

 

 

CDs by Chick Webb

Stompin' at the Savoy   /  Swing Sation Series   /  Rhythm Man  /  Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)

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50 Cent: A Metaphor for Change by Intel

Amin Sharif 

Arturo Sandoval in Baltimore (performance review)

Chick Webb: Baltimore's Jazz Giant  by (bio sketch)

If You Only Knew: A Film Review  

Is Hip Hop Really Dead?  (commentary)

miles davis  

Muddy Waters on PBS

Remembering Nina

Todd Boyd's  Hip Hop  (commentary)

Bazzle Dazzle: The Jazz Singer Is a Lady by Mimi Read (essay on Germaine Bazzle)

Bill Egan

Florence Mills: A Lost Treasure by Bill Egan (essay)

Florence Mills Biography Site

Florence Mills Biography Site2

 

Billie Pierce by Lee Meitzen Grue (poem)

 

Blues & Spirituals

     Negro Spirituals and American Culture

     The Spiritual and the Blues

 

Breath of Life

     The Best of the Staple Singers, as BAM Artists

     Gil Scott-Heron & His Music

      An Interview With Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr. by Kalamu ya Salaam

      Police Brutality and Rappers

     Raymond Miles, “Heaven is the Place” 

Buddy Bolden

     Buddy Bolden's New Orleans Music  by William Russell and Stephen W. Smith (essay)

     Didn't He Ramble  (poem) 

Ellis Marsalis

     Ellis Marsalis (bio sketch))

     Ellis Marsalis on Wednesday at Snug Harbor by Lee Meitzen Grue (poem)

Florence Mills

     Florence Mills Biography Site

     Florence Mills: A Lost Treasure by Bill Egan (essay)

John Coltrane

     John William Coltrane by Paul O.W. Tanner and Maurice Gerow (essay)

     A Love Supreme by John Coltrane (poem)

Jonathan Scott

The Staying Power of Rap On Hiphop and Musicology

Junious Ricardo Stanton

The Last Poets' Umar Bin Hassan  

Tony Williams Scholarship Jazz Festival 

Lee Meitzen Grue (poems) 

Booker: Black Night Keep on Falling 

Ellis Marsalis on Wednesday at Snug Harbor  

Jazzmen  

Miles

Miss Marva Wright  

Turbinton: The African Cowboy at Charlie B's

Walter Washington

Lickwid  Langwij A Musical CD by Po-It

 

Louis Armstrong

     Armstrong's Trumpet  by Evgeny Evtushenko (poem)

     Evtushenko in Satchmo's New Orleans (essay)

     Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (quotes)

Mahalia Jackson

     Funeralizing Mahalia by Charles-Gene McDaniel (report)

     Mahalia Jackson: Saturday Night Rhythms 

Miles Davis

     Miles by Lee Meitzen Grue (poem)

     miles davis by Amin Sharif (poem)

     Miles Davis by Kalamu ya Salaam  (poem)

Nina Simone

     Bio-Chronology 

     Four Women  by Nina Simone (song lyrics)

     Remembering Nina by Amin Sharif (essay)

     To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Nina Simone (lyrics)

     Well Done, Miss Simone  by Cliff Chandler (poem)

Rudolph Lewis

Babatunde Olatunji  (bio-chronology)

Ode to a Magic City

Sun Ra

     Bio of Sun Ra (chronology)

     New School Arkestra: Remembering Sun Ra  by Rudolph Lewis (bio-chronology)

Ted Joans  

Bird and the Beats  

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