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It's a Jazzy Christmas

So, to share that love of jazz, and especially jazzy Christmas songs, we put together a festive playlist full of great tunes to...

Jazz Speaks for Life: A Short Essay on Disney’s Soul

So many spoilers are below. You’ve been warned. About 20 minutes into watching Disney Pixar’s Soul (2020), I anticipated that this was...

I Sing Because I Am Happy: A 2020 Nicole Henry Playlist

Can you bottle Happiness? Can you build it up and cut off slices for others? Can you send Happiness on stage, hand it a microphone, and...

Strange Fruit: Jazz and Race in America

But this success, and more importantly a success inexorably linked to the racial injustice that African Americans faced daily, made her...

The History of Live Music Performance

Researchers of prehistoric times have speculated that music was used way back before humans even knew what it was. Although the “music” play

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