The 15th Anniversary Lincoln Park Music Festival, Newark NJ’s “best-kept secret” continues the city’s rich history of Gospel music in an outdoor “Black Church revival style” experience.
By Robert Walker Bonita Oliver’s ‘Seeking Truth’ is described as a virtual museum that will tell the story of one of America’s greatest Civil and Women’s Rights Activists, Sojourner Truth.
The legendary Zelda Wynn Valdes (June 28, 1905 – September 26, 2001) was an African-American fashion designer and costumer.
By Robert Walker In the movie, “Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn”, we see that the comic book characters each have their special abilities and that one of the characters, “Black Canary.”
Here’s Dorothy Dandrige swerving, doing the robot and dancing in two dresses by Harlem fashion designer to the stars Zelda Wynn Valdes.
By Matt Diehl In popular music, the rise of the anti-diva has proven the defining meme of the last decade.
They were dressed to the nines! After all, it was Sunday in Harlem. Harlemites were known to dress their best, in the finest materials, and in the latest of styles for the Sunday afternoon fashion parades on the avenues.
The legendary Harlemite Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes, June 28, 1905 – September 26, 2001, was an African-American fashion designer and customer based in Harlem who designed the original Playboy Bunny costume.
By Robert Walker Esnavi may not yet be a household name, but people will soon realize that this diva who just performed at Harlem Week 2018 is the face of the future of R&B music.
They were dressed to the nines! After all, it was Sunday in Harlem. Harlemites were known to dress their best, in the finest materials, and in the latest of styles for the Sunday afternoon fashion parades on the avenues.
Jimmy Cobb is playing with more vitality and purpose in his 80’s than drummers a fraction of his age. The New York Times called his most recent recording on Smoke Sessions Records, The Original Mob, his best album in recent memory” and “a cogent argument against obsolescence.”
Check out some of the best Jazz music by some of the best musicians in Harlem at Smoke Music Schedule for the month of October 2015.
Wow, Jimmy Cobb is playing with more vitality and purpose in his 80’s than drummers a fraction of his age. He is probably most famous as the drummer on Miles Davis’ classic Kind of Blue and his band will celebrate the iconic trumpeters May 26th birthday over these two nights, as well as the release…
The New Amsterdam Musical Association, (NAMA) is the oldest African-American musical organization in the United States.
By Claude Jay Mr. Max Lucas, the Saxophonist, is a Jazz legend and American treasure. He has worked with the greats of Jazz, the Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn to name a few.