by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) In today’s Daily Drop, for #JazzAppreciationMonth we offer a quote from jazz legend and pioneer, the unparalleled saxophonist, composer and musician, North Carolina native John Coltrane. To hear it (and more on...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Marvin Gaye is known worldwide as a key R&B, soul and pop music innovator from the 1960s on. But what may not be well known about Gaye is that his earliest musical ambitions were to sing and perform jazz. As...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) No fooling, in the U.S. April 1st denotes the start of Jazz Appreciation Month (aka “JAM”), where the art form born out of Congo Square in New Orleans became a unique and true African American and American...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) We close out #WomensHistoryMonth with Mary Lou Williams, one of the most talented and revered pianists, composers, and arrangers in jazz music history. Williams, who grew up in Pittsburgh, was a self-taught musical prodigy...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) As #WomensHistoryMonth comes to a close, today in our Daily Drop podcast, we spotlight Chicago-based blues and jazz pianist Cora “Lovie” Austin. Austin isn’t well known now, but in her day she was a...
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