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    Apr 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Ella Fitzgerald, with unerring sense of swing, conquered jazz

    Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, on what would have been her 96th birthday.
    Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, on what would have been her 96th birthday. The stylized doodle puts her in the spotlight on stage leading a quartet. Fitzgerald became the preeminent female jazz singer of...

    Tags: Apollo Theater, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)

    2. Nov 29, 2012 |Story| Daily Pilot

  2. Still keeping time at 100

    Viola Smith pulled up to her 100th birthday party in a pedi-cab and entered, appropriately, to a drumroll.
    Viola Smith pulled up to her 100th birthday party in a pedi-cab and entered, appropriately, to a drumroll. As one of the first mainstream female drummers, Smith was a pioneer for women in music who earned her fame during World War II, a breakthrough...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Heart Attack, Music, Culture, World War II (1939-1945)

    3. Jul 22, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Artscape: Why so little jazz?

    The choice of Brian McKnight for headliner at Artscape is not the only poor decision made by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts ("X-rated songs by Artscape headliner stir controversy," July 19). They also nearly eliminated jazz from the...

    Tags: Cab Calloway, Artscape, Music Industry, Music, Eubie Blake

    4. Apr 27, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Money found, city pools will stay open

    Donations from 2010 will be used to keep several city pools open this summer that the mayor last month had slated for closure. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday that Baltimore City Foundation donations from two years ago will be used to...

    Tags: Druid Hill, Bernard C. Young, Human Interest, Cherry Hill, Patterson Park

    5. Apr 22, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  5. Pianist Emery Smith To Close 'Baby Grand' Jazz Series

    As one of the last living participants in Hartford's exuberant Golden Age of Jazz after World War II — an era when future giants Horace Silver and Gigi Gryce graced the swinging club scene in the North End — pianist Emery Austin Smith is unquestionably one of the city's grand patriarchs of jazz.
    The Hartford Courant
    As one of the last living participants in Hartford's exuberant Golden Age of Jazz after World War II — an era when future giants Horace Silver and Gigi Gryce graced the swinging club scene in the North End — pianist Emery Austin Smith is...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Count Basie, Big Band (genre), Social Issues, Entertainment

    6. Nov 29, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune
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