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(Le) Poisson Rouge to Host 'Strange & Beautiful Festival: The Music and Art of John Lurie' in September
Professor Sun Ra Talks Idiosyncrasies of Jazz and Religion in University of California, Berkeley Lectures
Sun Ra was arguably out of his gourd, and yet his idiosyncratic interpretations of jazz, religion and basically anything under the golden sun have marked him as close to an "otherworldly being" as anything like "Afrofuturism" ever had. As Old as Jazz Itself: Trumpeter Lionel Ferbos Passes On After 103 Years
Lionel Ferbos may have been as old as jazz itself as he celebrated his 103 birthday this July 17, still giging as the oldest living jazzer of the day. Alas, Ferbos died two days after that birthday on July 19.