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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers  First Flight to TokyoThe Lost 1961 Recordings

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers / First Flight to Tokyo:The Lost 1961 Recordings

The contents of the recently discovered tapes of this January 14, 1961 concert in Tokyo Japan are now on two vinyl LPs. Released on Friday December 10, 2021, the double LP package is as one would expect.   It is Art Blakey (drums) with Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter tenor ...
Who will tell her the stories of her ancestors in her mother tongue

Who will tell her the stories of her ancestors in her mother tongue?

 I love a good story, told the way my grandmothers and other elders held me captive on many unforgettable evenings during my childhood. Those stories, narrated in Orukiga, my mother-language, were laced with idioms, proverbs, songs and sounds that would quickly transport me to ...
Florence Lubega and other pioneers who will tell their story

Florence Lubega and other pioneers: who will tell their story?

Mrs. Florence Alice Lubega, who departed Earth on October 28, just eight days shy of turning 104, may well be the last member of independent Uganda’s first parliament to die. My uncertainty reflects the awfully inadequate documentation of the lives of our immediate post-independence ...

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