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My passion for New Orleans music ramped up to infatuation on July 3, 1973, when I heard Professor Longhair for the first time in Central Park. The experience still stands as the...
Nancy Wilson in 2007 The famed vocalist Nancy Wilson died on Thursday at her home near Los Angeles. She was 81. The Chillicothe, Ohio, native was an elegant beauty whom I first...
Joe Williams in the 1957 movie, Disc Jockey Jamboree Count Basie called Joe Williams his “Number One son.” The great singer first worked with Basie’s Octet in...
For Worcester-born acolytes like me and Chet Williamson, the devoted author of “Falling Rains of Life,” the online biography of Jaki Byard, it was inevitable that as...