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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Billy Joel, Jill Scott and Others Star at the New Orleans Jazz Fest Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On todays program, we tell all about the famed New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which opens
Pioneering Asian-American Jazzman Recalls Musical Journey 亚裔美国爵士先驱音乐回忆录 HONOLULU, HAWAII Gabe Baltazar is one of the few Asian Americans to achieve worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist. The versatile musician played saxophone
By Doug Levine Washington 05 March 2006 Jazz singer Tierney Sutton never dreamed she'd come so far so soon. Had she not discovered jazz in college, she might have missed a singing career altogether. S
By Doug Levine Washington 03 April 2007 A string quartet that plays jazz? How about a Grammy Award-winning string quartet that plays jazz? VOA's Doug Levine fills us in on the Turtle Island Quartet, whose latest album pays tribute to jazz legend Joh
Famed jazz pianist and composer George Shearing, 91, died Monday, February 14 of heart failure in New York City. Shearing was born in England but settled in the United States in 1947. His recording career lasted more than six decades and included alb
By Doug Levine Washington 12 November 2007 Every day, millions of U.S. television viewers tune into the Weather Channel to get their latest forecast. But, as VOA's Doug Levine tells us, weather may not be the only reason people are watching. Neither
By Doug Levine Washington 25 June 2006 It's not often you hear someone singing songs by Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane. In fact, you might wonder if it's ever been done at all. Until now, jazz vocalists have kept to the straight-and-narrow, sing
By Doug Levine Washington 11 July 2006 Whatever happened to the so-called Young Lions of jazz? It's been more 15 years since this elite group of teen musicians was hailed as the next generation of great traditional jazz players. Most, like Wynton Ma
By Greg Flakus New Orleans, LA 27 April 2007 Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city is showing signs of recovery and drawing visitors back to traditional events, like the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival. It runs o
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 18 December 2006 Fifty years ago, Dizzy Gillespie led an international tour of jazz musicians to parts of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America. It was sponsored by the U.S. State Department, and marked the
By Doug Levine Washington 01 October 2006 Jazzman Duke Ellington had millions of fans around the world, but perhaps his most-loyal audience was in his hometown, Washington, D.C. Duke's legacy lives on in Washington with the 2nd Annual Duke Ellington
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Since the age of Homer, poetry has been performed with music. Jazz and poetry have been paired up frequently ever since the beat poets and the beboppers got together in the 1950s. A new addition to that canon features Pulitzer Priz
(SOUNDBITE OF JOHN COLTRANE'S UNTITLED ORIGINAL 11383) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: 11382 - 383 original. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: 11383 original - the track you are listening to right now is special not only because of who plays it - John Coltrane's quartet - b
By Doug Levine Washington 06 September 2006 Famed jazz trumpeter and bandleader Maynard Ferguson died of kidney and liver failure at a hospital in Ventura, California on Wednesday August 23. He was 78 years old. Like the late Dizzy Gillespie, Fergus
She went inside the music store. The music store sold all kinds of things. It sold records, compact disks, posters, and clothing. She loved listening to music. Her favorite kind of music was Jazz. She collected old Jazz records. Her collection had hu
By Doug Levine Washington 08 April 2006 It's been 22 years since the untimely death of singer Marvin Gaye, but there's no forgetting the man who sang such classics as
By Doug Levine Washington 02 May 2007 Thousands took in the sights and sounds of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on its opening weekend, April 27-29, which featured almost every type of music imaginable. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, some
By Doug Levine Washington 16 April 2006 Jazz Appreciation Month got underway with the unveiling of donated items from the families of two jazz legends and a famous jazz photographer to the Smithsonian
By Doug Levine Washington 15 July 2006 Eldar Djangirov's dream of coming to America and playing jazz came true years ago. But an even bigger dream of recording an album with a major label has also come true. For Eldar, as he's known, patience and pe
By Doug Levine Washington 14 February 2008 In the music world, it's often said, What goes around comes around. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, that phrase rang true for Grammy-winning vocalist Diane Schuur, who pays tribute to her jazz roots on her la