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- Date: May 10 2013
- Time: 12·00 AM
- Notes: 74
Celebrating Women in Jazz Day — May 10
Pictured here: Lil Hardin-Armstrong, Valaida Snow, Blanche Calloway, Mary Lou Williams, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Roz Cron, Clora Bryant, Lee Wiley, Sarah Vaughan, a few members of The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Marian McPartland, Cassandra Wilson, Terri Lyne Carrington, Melody Gardot, Esperanza Spalding.
To celebrate the acclaimed documentary The Girls in the Band coming to Lincoln Center, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has proclaimed Friday, May 10 “Women in Jazz Day.” The date celebrates the legacies of female jazz musicians and marks the first in a weeklong series of screenings of The Girls in the Band at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center.
- Date: May 07 2013
- Time: 08·02 PM
- Notes: 81
- Date: May 06 2013
- Time: 03·46 PM
- Notes: 765
- Date: May 06 2013
- Time: 02·45 PM
- Notes: 45
Artie Shaw and his orchestra perform to a crowded nightclub, New York, 1940.
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- Date: May 05 2013
- Time: 11·41 PM
- Notes: 10
- Date: May 04 2013
- Time: 02·16 PM
- Notes: 1469
life:
Caption from LIFE. “With his trumpet glowing like a hot coal, Louis Armstrong first ripped into jazz in New Orleans 37 years ago …. [He is] a superb musician and a clear spellbinder.”
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- Date: May 02 2013
- Time: 11·49 PM
- Notes: 1033
Billie Holiday reading a manuscript of her autobiography, ‘Lady Sings the Blues’, 1956.
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- Date: May 01 2013
- Time: 10·15 PM
- Notes: 251
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- Date: May 01 2013
- Time: 08·41 PM
- Notes: 15
- Date: April 30 2013
- Time: 10·50 PM
- Notes: 25


