Jon Hendricks
The group was also known as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross when Canadian jazz singer Anne Marie Moss briefly replaced Annie Ross. Any hopes...
Julian Cannonball Adderley
The Great African-American Classical Art-Form Cannonball, Harlem 1963 "Hipness is not a state of mind. It's a fact of life. You don't...
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
The Great African-American Classical Art-Form “Great Black Music" Originally comprised of saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph...
Andrew Hill
The Great African-American Classical Art-Form The Great African-American Classical Art-Form Composer- Pianist, Andrew Hill, was an...
“Mississippi” Fred Mc Dowell
“Mississippi” Fred McDowell was born and grew up in Rossville, Tennessee a small farming town just 38 miles east of Memphis on U.S...
William Henry "Juba" Lane (1825-1852): "King of All Dancers”
“Single shuffle, double shuffle, cut and cross-cut; snapping his fingers, rolling his eyes, turning in his knees, presenting the backs of...
A NOTE REGARDING THE BI-RACIAL TOMFOOLERY PAGE "My Little Octoroon" Sheet Music Cover. 18
"The U. S. Government under the slave holding oligarchy, purposely kept up the 'distinctions' of 'white' and 'black', 'mulatto' and...
The Man in the Pork Pie Hat: Lester Young (1909-1959)
Lester Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. By 1920 he had moved to Minneapolis with his father, Willis Handy Young, a versatile...
"Negro Es Mi Color" ("Black Is My Color") - An Original Mexican Film (1951)
The racial musical melodrama is about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who "passes as "white." It is a Mexican...
The Mulatto Stunner: Mrs. Fanny Eaton, An Early Black Super Model (1835-1924)
Fanny Eaton was the Jamaican-born daughter of an enslaved woman and plantation owner, who emigrated to London and became a model for...
