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How To Start A Jazz Festival

Extracts from Don’t Worry ‘Bout The Bear by Jim & Ron Simpson which reflect a lifetime of working in what we laughably call the music business. Today’s segment tells the story of how the festival first got off the ground 36 years ago,with a...

Madeleine Peyroux on Billie Holiday

Today marks the 61st anniversary of the death of the most important and influential of all jazz singers, BILLIE HOLIDAY. She died in New York under arrest and handcuffed and in hospital. Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who had been targetting...