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A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

January 28, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Legendary jazz guitarist Russell Malone passed away at the age of 60 on Friday, August 23, 2024. Credit: Photo contributed by Gary Motley

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Legendary jazz guitarist Russell Malone, dead at 60

Well-regarded jazz guitarist Russell Malone died Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. Malone, 60, was born in Albany, Georgia, but lived in Atlanta for over a decade.

August 27, 2024
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  • Donnell Suggs
Lil John Roberts and The Senators (Tres Gilbert, Phil Davis and Derek Scott) are part of the Atlanta All-Star Band at Symphony Hall May 24, for the Atlanta Jazz Festival Presentation of WCLK At 50.

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'WCLK at 50' puts Lil John Roberts in the spotlight. Here's why the drummer is an Atlanta music icon

This year, Clark Atlanta University's radio station, WCLK Jazz 91.9 FM, is celebrating its golden anniversary. As part of the Atlanta Jazz Festival, the station will be honored in a "WLCK At 50" event at Atlanta's Symphony Hall on May 24, featuring Lil John Roberts and an Atlanta All-Star Band. Roberts may not be a household name, but this "musician's musician" has played with luminaries including Stevie Wonder, George Benson, Prince, Elton John and Janet Jackson.

May 24, 2024
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  • Sonia Murray
Lizz Wright got her start as a church music director. Now her jazz vocals wow audiences worldwide. She performs Monday, May 27 at 9 p.m. in Atlanta's Piedmont Park as part of the free Atlanta Jazz Festival

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'Delighted to be home': Singer Lizz Wright returns to headline Atlanta Jazz Festival

The Georgia singer performed in a Billie Holiday tribute and landed on former President Barack Obama's music playlists. Now she returns to Atlanta for a headlining performance at the 47th annual Atlanta Jazz Festival.

May 24, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
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Two Cuthbert residents want to save the home of a jazz legend

Two Cuthbert residents want to restore the childhood home of a legendary figure in jazz.

April 19, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
"This city has birthed a lot of pioneers, people that are pushing things," Andre 3000 said. "It's cool to be kind of running [expletive] for like the last 30 years."

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Inhale. Exhale. Now let these scenes from Andre 3000's Atlanta homecoming wash over you

It's been nearly 10 years since Andre and his partner in Atlanta rap act OutKast, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, headlined a sold-out, three-night stand at Centennial Olympic Park — and two decades since the duo released Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, now the best-selling rap album of all time. 

March 05, 2024
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  • Sonia Murray
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Georgia in Play: Celebrating Hanukkah, holiday jazz, girls lead gaming, helping homeless neighbors

This week on Georgia in Play: Thursday marked the start of Hanukkah, and host Leah Fleming asks some of the holiday's youngest observants what the celebration means to them. Plus, an award-winning jazz artist brings another holiday track for your playlist this season, while your kids might learn through video games in the classroom one day. Then, hear what your local homeless shelters may need around the holiday.

December 08, 2023
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Chase McGee
Georgia in Play with Leah Fleming

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Georgia in Play Preview: The little drummer boy picks up a flute

This Friday on Georgia in Play: Host Leah Fleming speaks with Ragan Whiteside, award-winning contemporary jazz artist, about her musical experience and what jazz means to her.

December 06, 2023
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Chase McGee
Russell Gunn at The Apollo Theater's "The Blues and Its People"

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How 'The Blues and Its People' made its way from New York's Apollo Theater to Atlanta Symphony Hall

"A work realized this way needed to be able to come home to Atlanta," noted Leatrice Ellzy Wright, a Sr. Director of Programming at the Apollo Theater who also still calls South Fulton home.

May 24, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs at Fox Theatre on Sunday, October 6, 2019, in Atlanta. (Photo by Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)

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Two different Radiohead-themed musical experiences are coming to Atlanta

Georgia musicians will perform classical and jazz treatments of the band's songs in two different Atlanta-area concert settings in the months of April and May.

April 14, 2023
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  • Sarah Rose
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From Samara Joy to Wynton Marsalis, this year's Atlanta Jazz Festival lineup has come to play

Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Clarke and Ledisi headline a three-day lineup worth seeing each day, from its 1 p.m. start.

March 30, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk's new album 'Jazz on Bones' explores the history of jazz in the former Soviet Union.

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Violinist's album honors the underground effort to keep jazz alive after Stalin's ban

Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk explores the history of jazz in the former Soviet Union in her new album: Jazz on Bones.

February 13, 2023
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  • Leila Fadel and
  • Barry Gordemer
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Jazz Hands for Autism is creating new avenues for autistic musicians

Jazz Hands for Autism is a Southern California-based nonprofit that provides music training, vocational development and job placement assistance for musicians with autism.

February 08, 2023
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  • Iman Maani
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman plays in 2019. Swing is an essential component of nearly all kinds of jazz music. Physicists think that subtle nuances in the timing of soloists are key to creating that propulsive swing feel.

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What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery

For nearly a century, jazz musicians have debated what gives songs that propulsive, groovy feel that makes you want to move with the music. The secret may lie in subtle nuances in a soloist's timing.

January 21, 2023
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  • Maria Godoy
Adam Brooks, music educator at North Atlanta High School, is being honored with the Manilow Music Project award on Jan. 19.

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North Atlanta HS band teacher wins Manilow Music Award

North Atlanta High School music programs director Adam Brooks will be honored with the Manilow Music Project Award by the Grammy-award-winning legend Barry Manilow on Jan. 19.

January 17, 2023
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  • Logan Ritchie
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