He bore witness to a great many things. When I did my first jazz album,Echoes of an Era, with all those great musicians that I grew up listening to, I didn't really know them like he did. It was his love, and he got to hear ...
While the name was borrowed from a lyric on the LP, Boone sees it as a metaphor for his life: "I feel like things have taken off for me like a firework tied to a rollerblade, all very quickly." He's not wrong. In the three months since the pop singer/songwriter rel...
Throughout history, orchestral music has been celebrated by the highest echelons of society, whereas hip-hop has often been shunned by that echelon. What is it like for you to bring those two worlds together? I love it. I've embraced the opportunity since day one. I was a young man sho...
A few minutes later, ‘Moo,’ was on his way to his forever home.” Outcome and Impact: “By the time we closed at 3, I had facilitated 17 adoptions. And like the families who were taking home new companions, I was also going home with something new: a changed perspective on ...
I was watching 2001: A Space Odyssey when I first encountered the idea of a rogue AI. Immediately, I was hooked, especially by the reveal that poor HAL 9000 was nothing more than a tool of the government that sent him, without a malicious circuit in his gleaming robot body. That ...
She studied jazz at Purchase College, State University of New York. Shortly after graduating in 2021, Joy performed her first set at the popular jazz club, Mezzrow, in New York's West Village neighborhood. It was here that she was introduced to an underground world of music that she...
One day in September, she was scrolling her feed of art and animal photos and posts from mental health communities when she came across the explosive music of 79-year-old avant-garde jazz hero and herbalist Milford Graves, who’s spent decades using cardiovascular equipment to record and study...
Jazz was a hit in the 1920s, African Americans were given credit for leading the jazz industry, the Jazz industry had an amazing impact on many other popular cultures. Jazz was the favorite type of music among the flappers. The Jazz age was known to be powered by the prohibition of alcoh...
He was a child when he first began performing in the Jackson 5, but he was born with the innate talent to dance. Jackson’s innovative dance style not only impacted the genre but also changed the way music videos were created in the 1980s, with “Thriller” as a prime example. He ...
When jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday performed the song “Strange Fruit” for the first time, the audience was completely silent. This song was neither jazz nor blues—it was a song about injustice, co-written with Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants. This book teaches kids all...