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Row Through the Times: The History of Record Row

The Birth of Jazz Fusion

Billie Holiday the Jazz Empress

Miles Davis the Creator of Cool Jazz

The Man of Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman

Jazz: The Iconic John Coltrane

Sidney Bechet and his Influence on Jazz

The Evolution of Cool Jazz

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

The Evolution of New Orleans Jazz

Freddie Hubbard

Little Louis: Valaida Snow

The Unsung Hero: Melba Liston & Her Trombone

Dancing in Jazz: The Swing

The Influential Bebop

Hazel Scott - Jazz Pianist, Singer, Actress

Bobby Hutcherson: American Jazz Vibraphonist

Jazz Music Was Never the Same: The Revolutionary Impact of Bebop

Father of Jazz: Buddy Bolden

Charlie Parker- The Rise of Bebop

Jazz Post: The Home of Jazz

Jazz's Impact on the Civil Rights Movement

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Women in Ragtime: Rosa Henderson

Thelonious Monk: Concert Report

Concert Report: Atlanta Heart Ballet

Final Artist Post: The Great Sarah Vaughan

The Amazing Women in Jazz

Videos of Interest

Rhythm & Blues Scholarship

Barry White

olimpia_andrade September 20, 2020

Aaliyah

jada.farleycook September 20, 2020

Marian Anderson: The Voice of the Arranged Spiritual

lanihoward September 6, 2020

“You make me wanna shout!”

miriam.olajide September 4, 2020

Gospel Scholarship

Gospel

Ashlynn Gray October 16, 2020

Salvation in Song: Gospel at Apollo Records

jmosley October 12, 2020

How it Began: University Jubilee Quartets

nchilds1 September 13, 2020

Gospel Period: The Changes of the Jubilee Quartet Tradition- Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

dhollie September 13, 2020

Jazz Scholarship

Freddie Hubbard

abiokoro October 11, 2020

The Birth of Jazz Fusion

Cadlonzer October 7, 2020

The Man of Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman

DestineeW October 7, 2020

Billie Holiday the Jazz Empress

olimpia_andrade October 6, 2020

Blues Scholarship

Row Through the Times: The History of Record Row

kaycepritchett October 17, 2020

Let’s Move To Some Blues!

Mackenzie Martin October 4, 2020

Legendary Mamie Smith

mikaelaiborneo October 3, 2020

Women In Blues: Icon Mamie Smith

Gabby Campbell October 2, 2020

Ragtime Scholarship

Sue Keller

Hunter C. October 3, 2020

James Scott

jordan.hill October 2, 2020

The King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin

Jasmel Charles September 23, 2020

Women in Ragtime: Winifred Atwell

KyndalMcDonald September 22, 2020

Jubilee Quartet Scholarship

The Soul Stirrers: Jubilee Quartet

lanihoward October 5, 2020

The Brooklyn AllStars

Marionna Claytor October 3, 2020

The Soul Stirrers

Hunter C. October 3, 2020

The Mills Brothers

anyadavis September 27, 2020

Negro Spirituals Scholarship

Negro Spirituals

kaiyagrimes October 13, 2020

Negro Spirituals: Keeping the Tradition vs Innovation

Hunter C. October 2, 2020

Negro Spirituals

Jasmel Charles September 23, 2020

1860 Negro Spiritual Breakdown

jahseannashfuller September 9, 2020

Folk Scholarship

What You Didn’t Know, About the Banjo!

dominiqueewing01 September 8, 2020

The Legend of Kora

nchilds1 September 6, 2020

Rhiannon Giddens’: Step Into Folk Music

Gabby Campbell September 6, 2020

Negro Spirituals: When life gives you Lemons make Lemonade (or Negro Spirituals)

Aleisha14 September 3, 2020

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