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Reverend Gary Davis and Miss Gibson
One day Manny Greenhill, Reverend Gary Davis’s sometime manager, received a desperate call from Wurlitzer, one of Boston’s most staid and respected music stores. A quavering voice explained that an elderly man, a minister of some sort, had seized … Continue reading
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Filed under Jazz and blues, Performers
Svend Asmussen and Benny Goodman
In 1948 Benny Goodman invited the Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen to consider coming to the U.S. to play in his band. Asmussen agreed, but he soon discovered that the U.S. Musicians Union had other ideas. To play in … Continue reading
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John Cage, visual artist
Best known as an experimental composer and performer, John Cage (1912–92) was also a visual artist who created an extensive body of prints, drawings, and watercolors during the last 20 years of his life. In all of his work, regardless … Continue reading
Filed under 20th- and 21st-century music, Visual art
Jimi Hendrix’s asteroid prophecy
A timely prophecy remains hidden in the words of Jimi Hendrix—a connection between history and religions, linking the future with the past—that predicts the existence of an asteroid on course to impact the earth. Hendrix was an authentic Afro-American Cherokee … Continue reading
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Folia de reis and family
The folia de reis Christmas tradition of southeastern Brazil involves a group of musicians and clowns traveling from house to house in a symbolic re-enactment of the journey of the Magi. The performers sing to bless the families they visit, … Continue reading
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