Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

Especially since, as Tolentino's notes, 11 of his best players graduated ... list. The Jazz House Kids are doing two Ellingtons — his arrangement of W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" (vocals ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned ... Charles Barkley Names One Player He Was 'Surprised' Didn ...

A benefit exhibition for artists who've been impacted by the wildfires, Batsheva Dance Company's U.S. premiere and more arts ...

The A’s gave Johnson $1.5 million last month at the start of the 2025 international signing period and he has the chance to ...

His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest for ... The other career was as a funky soul-jazz player who recorded important riff-driven albums for other labels starting ...

29 (UPI) --A vicious fan brawl caused a delay for about seven minutes toward the end of a college basketball matchup between VCU and Saint Louis ... from his face. Players from both teams stared ...

Preservation Hall's resident brass band recently released its first album, dedicated to the late New Orleans drummer Kerry 'Fatman' Hunter. Preservation Brass celebrates the album and Hunter's life ...

Lil landed her first job as a piano player at the Jones Music Store on Chicago's ... Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis ... Lil Hardin helped introduce America to ...

Jazz players are their true heirs in the way that ... To hear the purest and most sublime example of jazz improvisation, listen to Louis Armstrong. As the writer Stanley Crouch has observed ...

The shrine to some of baseball's best and previously-forgotten players is getting too big to miss largely out of necessity, ...

Another morning wonderful music and good humour in Mike Hatchard’s “Jazz Breakfast” at Shoreham Harbour Club on Sunday 2nd February at 11am.