Category: Blog

  • July 3, 2025
    Thursday July 3rd 2025 1-230pm. mick presents a mini RHYTHM ROOTS WORKSHOPS, with two groups of students 4-11 years old…
  • July 3, 2025
    You can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star. Possibly two. Such explosions are known as novas and…
  • July 3, 2025
    John Coles (July 3, 1926 – December 21, 1997) was an American jazz trumpeter. Coles was born in Trenton, New…
  • July 3, 2025
    Thomas Joseph Tedesco (July 3, 1930 – November 10, 1997) was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles…
  • July 3, 2025
    Lonnie Smith (July 3, 1942 – September 28, 2021 Lackawanna, New York), styled Dr. Lonnie Smith, was an American jazz…
  • July 3, 2025
    Rhoda Scott (born July 3, 1938 Weymouth Township, New Jersey) is an American soul jazz organist and singer. She is…
  • July 3, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2f1ZrOhK08&list=OLAK5uy_lXJWyoV_1h5TarIXBuamtHueeoSRPOz-Q&index=5
  • July 3, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaWplntgG2s
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    "The reality of Music is in that vibration that remains in the ear after the singer finishes his song and…
  • July 2, 2025
    Born Angelo Chambers, 2 July 1924, Denton, Texas, USA, d. 7 June 1993, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. While living in…
  • July 2, 2025
    The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in…
  • July 2, 2025
    Joe English (born July 2, 1949 NY) is an American musician, vocalist and songwriter who, during the 1970s, played drums…
  • July 2, 2025
    Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa (Arabic: إمام محمد أحمد عيسى) or El Sheikh Emam (Arabic: الشيخ إمام; July 2, 1918 –…
  • July 2, 2025
    Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones; July 2, 1930 – April 16, 2023 Pittsburg) was an American jazz pianist, composer,…
  • July 2, 2025
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLdkqhx-9E
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    What appears to be a giant cosmic umbrella is now known to be a tidal stream of stars stripped from…
  • July 1, 2025
    Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (July 1, 1952 – February 3, 2018) was an American pop, funk, and jazz drummer. He was…
  • July 1, 2025
    Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933 – August 12, 2009), was an American free jazz and avant-garde drummer who was best known for performing with John…
  • July 1, 2025
    James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American bluesharmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many…
  • July 1, 2025
    William James Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was an American bluesmusician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in…
  • June 30, 2025
  • reflection nebula, identified as GN 04.32.8

    June 30, 2025
    The subject of this week's Hubble Picture of the Week is a reflection nebula, identified as GN 04.32.8. Reflection nebulae…
  • June 30, 2025
    Apostolos Nikolaidis (Greek: Απόστολος Νικολαΐδης) (30 June 1938 – 22 April 1999) was a Greek singer whose career spanned four decades. He…
  • June 30, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Cqy3uxRXc&t=3s David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American…
  • June 30, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3vqxY97tY Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007 Chicago) was an American jazzpianist and composer. Jazz critic John Fordham described Hill as a…
  • June 30, 2025
    Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951 Philadelphia) is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one…
  • June 30, 2025
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  • June 29, 2025
    Elmer "Mousey" Alexander (June 19, 1922 – October 9, 1988) was an American jazz drummer. Alexander was born in Gary,…
  • June 29, 2025
    Alexandre Lagoya (29 June 1929 – 24 August 1999) was a French classical guitarist and composer. His early career included…
  • June 29, 2025
    Rho Ophiuchi (ρ Ophiuchi) is a multiple star system in the constellation Ophiuchus. The central system has an apparent magnitude…
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    Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by her stage name Little Eva, was an American…
  • June 29, 2025
    Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics…
  • June 29, 2025
    Julian Priester (born June 29, 1935 Chicago) is an American jazz trombonist and occasional euphoniumist. He is sometimes credited "Julian…
  • June 29, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWrP-KbqGZE
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFfUT8wTCY&list=PL3qfMx0uDGGwYAWVxfqKoWrqIWEZ_Mwly
  • June 28, 2025
    BKJ BRASS kicking off FINEFEST at Tuttles in Hopkins 420-515pm Saturday June 28th 2025 https://www.facebook.com/events/733460002493439 Featuring Todd Matheson, Scott Anderson,…
  • June 28, 2025
    BKJ Brass kicking off FINE FEST at 420pm with NOLA traditional and R&B favorites. A celebration of Steve Fines life…
  • June 28, 2025
    Big beautiful barred spiral galaxy Messier 109 is the 109th entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog of bright Nebulae and…
  • June 28, 2025
    David Howard Lanz (born June 28, 1950, in Seattle, Washington) is an American pianist and composer. His album Cristofori's Dream…
  • June 28, 2025
    Anthony John Medeski (born June 28, 1965) is an American jazz keyboard player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of…
  • June 28, 2025
    David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was an American delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi.
  • June 28, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRlm_oc8mM&list=PLApYbiR--6fDeVgcD7IrrpMo5eHGbi_4y
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tk6lNwpZSQ
  • June 27, 2025
    "To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower, To hold Infinity in the…
  • June 27, 2025
    An interstellar expanse of glowing gas and obscuring dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its…
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    Joseph Edward Covington (born Joseph Edward Michno; June 27, 1945 – June 4, 2013) was an American drummer, best known…
  • June 27, 2025
    Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer…
  • June 27, 2025
    Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 – November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and…
  • June 27, 2025
    St. Elmo Sylvester Hope (June 27, 1923 – May 19, 1967) was an American jazzpianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in…
  • June 27, 2025
    Local residents of the Spanish province called Almeria, nicknamed ‘tarantos,’ have given their name to a Flamenco cante and toque,…