A new Mercer University Medical School in Columbus moved one step closer to reality Thursday morning during a ceremonial ground-breaking. And it drew Georgia’s top politicians, who made the state a ...
The boys in Doc Evans’ jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro ...
Jam for JimmyIf Jimmy Yancey didn’t actually originate boogie-woogie, he might as well have: he was playing it 35 years ago, long before it became big time. In Chicago, jazz lovers could find Jimmy in ...
I enjoyed reading Robert Garland's reminiscence of attending the first Major League all star game in Chicago in 1933. He noted that an amazing 29 participants that day were later inducted into the ...
Mournful blues (3:08) --Yancey special / Lewis, Razaf (2:38) --How long blues / Carr, Yancey (2:46) --Yancey's bugle call (2:23) --35th and dearborn (3:09) --Shave ...