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Music lovers are ready and waiting inside Toms River, NJ’s Grunin Center for the Arts this Sunday, April 24, 2022 afternoon for a concert of live jazz by Danny Jonokuchi and the Revisionists. ....
Records for Charles Alston, Wadsworth Jarrell, Augusta Savage and more in African American Art at Swann Charles Alston, Black and White #8, oil on linen canvas, 1961. Sold for $197,000, a record for the artist. NEW YORK, NY .- The Thursday, December 10 sale of African American Art at Swann Galleries was met with enthusiasm from collectors. The sale saw nine auction records set, as well as an auction debut from contemporary artist Tyrone Geter. The auction total reached $2.8 million bringing the houses African American Art sale totals for the year to $9.2 million. Leading the December sale was Charles Alstons Black and White #8, oil on canvas, 1961. The largest of the artists works yet to come to auction, the stunning abstraction came from an important series of eight works painted between 1959 and 1961. Black and White #8, earned a record for the artist at $197,000. Additional abstract works included Sir Frank Bowlings Repose for SO, acrylic on canvas, 19 ....
Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs, and Beethovens,” Jones told New Orleans Public Radio in 2013. Musical Beginnings Clifford Benjamin Brown was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 30, 1930, the youngest of eight children in a musical family that included his opera singer sister, Geneva. Brown started on trumpet at the age of 13. “From the earliest time, I can remember it was the trumpet that fascinated me,” Brown told jazz critic Nat Hentoff. “When I was too little to reach it, I would climb up to where it was, and I kept knocking it down.” Get the latest jazz news straight to your inbox! ....