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Obama to host International Jazz Day concert at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — International Jazz Day, one of the world's biggest celebrations of jazz, is coming to the White House. President Barack Obama and his...

To Be Equal…Natalie Cole: Still Unforgettable

 "Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived... with dignity, strength and honor. Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed...

Natalie Cole, Grammy winning singer, has died

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like...

Playboy through the decades: Key moments in magazine's past

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Playboy has announced it will no longer run photos of completely naked women, a change that will take place in...

Legendary jazz musician Clark Terry dead at 94

NEW YORK (AP) — Clark Terry, a Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter who played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and...

Grammy-winning jazz flutist Paul Horn dies at 84

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Horn, the Grammy-winning jazz flutist and New Age music pioneer, has died at the age of 84. Horn's son Marlen...

Carnegie Hall concert honors Black history

NEW YORK (AP) — In a rehearsal room near Times Square this week, some two dozen men with Broadway-honed voices huddled to strategize. They were...

African-American cowboy crooner Herb Jeffries dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" in...

New Orleans Jazz Fest attendance estimated at 435,000

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Producers of the New Orleans Jazz Fest estimate overall attendance for 2014 was 435,000. That's slightly higher than 2013's total of...

Broadway sees gains for Black audiences, actors

NEW YORK (AP) — Early one Sunday this month, 56 people boarded a bus in a suburb of Washington, D.C., to make the trip...

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