Louis Armstrong "Pops"
Louis Armstrong- Basin Street Blues - 1959 The world’s most famous jazz musician "The Great African-American Classical Art-Form"—was an...
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Archibald J. Motley Jr., Black Belt, 1934. Oil on canvas, 33 x 40.5 inches (83.8 x 102.9 cm). Collection of the Hampton University...
Review | "DRY BONES" Art Historian Darby English and a "Black Direction" For the
I offer this article not as an opportunity for useless name-calling and emotional ranting. Rather, it provides food for thought about how...
ELMO HOPE TRIO AND QUINTET
Elmo Hope Qunintet The Great African-American Classical Art-Form Elmo Hope's Trio and Quintet is the one to get. It includes his prime...
Four Great African-American Artists of the 20th Century | Jacob Lawrence, Palmer Hayden, Romare Bear
Artist: Jacob Lawrence; Title: Vaudeville (1951)~ "Masterpiece." The tensions between an art that refers to black people's social...
Sir. Miles Dewey Davis III Did More for Modern Music Than You Ever Thought
(All Photographs : Courtesy of the Miles Davis Estate Miles in Paris 1946) Miles Davis Did More for Modern Music Than You Ever Thought....
REMEMBERING BARAKA AS HE GOES TO THE NEXT GIG—PART 1
"When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my...
