During a recent two-week period, the nationally recognized Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) held a series of performances, unveiled a student art exhibit and celebrated the 2nd annual HSA A-Train Arts Festival.
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Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of Manhattan, in New York City.
Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton, February 1, 1904 – July 20, 1946, was an American trombonist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Former Community Board 12 member and current Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine announced his 2022 class of community board appointments.
This month, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis will launch Journey Through Jazz: Fundamentals, a new concert event created and hosted by Marsalis.
Opened in 1923, the Cotton Club on 142nd St & Lenox Ave in the heart of Harlem, New York was operated by white New York gangster Owney “Killer” Madden.
Isidor Straus, February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912, was a German-born American Jewish businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy’s department store with his brother Nathan.
Earl “Snakehips” Tucker, 1905 – 1937, became known as the “Human Boa Constrictor” after the dance he popularized in Harlem in the 1920s called the “snakehips (Dance)“.
The Harlem Renaissance Ballroom opened in 1923, built by the black-owned Sarco Realty Company, at 138th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, in Harlem, NY, quaked with the frenzied rhythms of the Lindy Hop.
By Matt Diehl In popular music, the rise of the anti-diva has proven the defining meme of the last decade.
Now in paperback! Decades before the PBS documentaries, before Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Al Hirschfeld and many, many more went to Harlem.
that a fire on the 29th floor of a high rise in East Harlem, near Central Park, has left 12 people hurt, including three who are fighting for their lives, fire officials said.
These Harlem homes stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments.
Adelaide Louise Hall was a dynamo, she was born on the 20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993, an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer.