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Today-Music-History-Jan30

In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded ``Darktown Strutters' Ball.'' Some historians consider this to be the earliest commercially made jazz record. It was written by Shelton Brooks, who ...
Kilgore, who died Jan. 7, was a talented interpreter of American popular song. We'll remember her by listening back to her in ...
He stated: “I’d rather go in and just be Jaco. I improvise all the time. Hopefully, I think, I never play the same thing ...
An elegant jazz singer with adventurous taste, she counted among her fans the performer Michael Feinstein and the songwriter ...
Moore founded the group in 1986 to present a one-weekend tribute to the Cotton Club, the Harlem nightclub, in Ruby’s Cabaret ...
Jazz is there and gone,” famed Miles Davis pianist and composer Keith Jarrett once said. “It happens. You have to be present ...
In the late ’60s, as the Black Power movement gained steam, funk became its soundtrack. Young people organized free breakfast ...
Bob Weir, guitarist, singer and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78. Weir’s death was announced Saturday in ...
The River Valley Film Society brings the documentary, "Randy Crouch: Survival of the Fiddlist," to the Ozark Mountain Music ...
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the band’s many latter-day offshoots, has died ...
The Mile High Jazz Band will perform “Cool Jazz in January,” an evening of big-band music with singer Jakki Ford, on Tuesday.
“We’ve had such a long relationship. We love hanging out,” says Tremonti. “We’d go to 5150, he’d come hang out with us, we’d ...