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Even in the prosperous Delaney Park neighborhood near downtown Orlando, few houses boast the facilities of Benoit Glazer’s “White House.” Glazer is a trumpet player, composer, retired conductor, and ...

The party was a success. So much so that it’s often considered the start of the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance saw a boom in the popularity of Black writers, just as ...

“What we now call the Harlem Renaissance—named after, obviously, a neighborhood in New York—during the Harlem Renaissance, no one called it that. That was a name that was put on it late ...

Novelist Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois) presents a collection of incisive essays exploring “the crossroads”: “a location of difficulty and possibility, a boundary Continue ...

Playing the music of Duke Ellington, this visionary artist of ... of American jazz musicians in the mid-20th century. Entitled “Harlem 58,” it’s commonly referred to as “A Great Day ...

In our Album Anniversaries series - as the album turned 30 last year - we said: "30 years after its release, it stands alongside Duke Ellington’s ‘Ellington at Newport’, Aretha Franklin’s ...

On a summer morning in 1958, a city block in Harlem filled with some of the finest jazz musicians of the era, many, perhaps, just off stage from late-night sessions that lasted till dawn. They had ...