Jazz research on the Internet: a continuing saga
Our nation’s capital has played an integral role in the development of jazz going back all the way to James Reese Europe.
The early career of Duke Ellington, the introduction of bossa nova to the United States, and the recognition of jazz as a national treasure all happened in Washington.
Continue ReadingA creme-de-la-creme cast of jazz stars pays tribute to Thelonious Monk. This was an inaugural event of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, now (a bit disappointingly) renamed the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. The concert took place on October 6, 1986 at D.A.R.
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