the birth of jazz, Italian immigration and discrimination, and the spirit of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Progressive reform to create a portrait of New Orleans from the birth of Jim Crow to the birth of Prohibition, using infamous unsolved ax murders as a thread to tie those parts together...
“I’d never really seen anything like it,” recallsFumi Nagasakaof her firstNew Orleans Mardi Gras.“Everyone’s dressed up, the floats are amazingly decorated and there’s music on every corner.” Unsurprisingly, her second visit to the city followed only months after, during which ...
Portrait of Harold “Shorty” Baker (Podcast #23-011) Posted onDecember 29, 2023byEllington Reflections “Harold “Shorty” Baker came into the band in 1942 to give us our first trumpet section of four. He joined Ray Nance, Rex Stewart, and Wallace Jones, and with his phenomenal phrasing ...
We head to ‘The Face: Culture Shift’, a new exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery celebrating the magazine’s photography and effect on popular culture. The show is a who’s who of contemporary cool and an ode to… 3 Mar 2025 An Oscars nomination special Robert Bound highlight...
Johnson produced a string of notable and highly influential albums including; Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, as well as Simon And Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence, Leonard Cohen: Songs from a Room and many ...
★★★☆ A wealth of archival footage gives us a rare portrait of a jazz legend in Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues. Photo: Apple TV+ New Apple TV+ documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues takes a lively and appropriately soulful look at the man who invented popular music in Americ...
The truth of his words was realized in blood during the most violent conflict in American history, and it has proven to be one of the enduring lessons of our country’s most agreeably heroized presidency. With that in mind, it’s hard to forgive Steven Spielberg’s portrait of that same...
之前过了一下他那个四个半小时的Portrait as a young man精选, 比以前听进去了很多; 欣赏Louis Armstrong的障碍主要就是 第一,也是欣赏所有instrumental jazz最初的障碍,“小号怎么吹在我听来都是一样的” 第二,声音太奇怪 第三,音乐不动感 第一点除了“pay attention... (展开) 17 3 0回应 > 更多乐评...
The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the sa…… 6. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The st...
A Portrait of the Queen 1970-1974compiles her first five albums of the 1970s:This Girl's In Love With You,Spirit in the Dark,Young Gifted and Black,Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), andLet Me In Your Life. Each has been remastered from the analog master tapes. The vinyl ...