Lester Young: the incredible jazz artist with an unfortunate fate
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Louis Armstrong: a beloved American jazz icon
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Duke Ellington was a pioneer of ‘protest’ music
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Big Bill Broonzy provided a ‘key’ to American blues and folk music
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How Skip James inspired a folk and blues revival
Nehemiah Curtis “Skip” James was born on June 9, 1902, in Bentonia, Miss. Growing up at the Woodbine Plantation, James took a...
Behind Charles Mingus’s punchy protest song Fables of Faubus
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Sonny Rollins made a ‘statement of justice’ with Freedom Suite
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John Coltrane challenged racial discrimination in his post-bop hits
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