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Duke Ellington

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Soul Food and Gospel Music at the Overtown Gospel Brunch

    ​It's going to be pretty hard to think of a better way to celebrate a pre-Mother's Day meal after you've read about the first ever Overtown Gospel Brunch.Bring your best church hat for lookin' fancy, a big fan because it's hot in Miami, and a loose dress, because there will be lots of chow. Brunch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Ten Sweet and Sleazy Rock Star Sex Stories

    Famous Arkansas groupie Sweet Connie Hamzy.​The Grand Funk Railroad song "We're an American Band" opens with the lines: "Out on the road for forty days/Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze/Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act/She had the whole show and that's a natural fact." A still-acti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Satchel Paige's Years in Miami

    Courtesy of Random House​Most baseball fans are familiar with Satchel Paige, the absolutely dominant Negro Leagues pitcher who played pro baseball for 40 years. In 1948, Bill Veeck, the legendary owner of the Cleveland Indians, finally gave the 41-year-old Paige a chance to pitch in th ... More >>

  • Music

    June 4, 2009

    The Dana Paul Quartet

    Courtesy of Random House​Most baseball fans are familiar with Satchel Paige, the absolutely dominant Negro Leagues pitcher who played pro baseball for 40 years. In 1948, Bill Veeck, the legendary owner of the Cleveland Indians, finally gave the 41-year-old Paige a chance to pitch in th ... More >>

  • Music

    January 1, 2009

    Top Classic Albums of 2008

    Ranking the best of what went around and came around again.

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Top 10 Reissues of 2008

    It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2008

    Last Night: Joe Jackson at the Fillmore Miami Beach

    Joe Jackson Saturday, November 15, 2008 The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater Joe Jackson has always occupied an upper strata in the world of rock, an artist who’s daringly dabbled in a variety of seemingly disparate genres and pulled each off with convincing aplomb. He took fl ... More >>

  • Music

    June 5, 2008

    Simple, Not Stupid

    Van Morrison ventures back into the slipstream.

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2007

    RIP Max Roach

    Van Morrison ventures back into the slipstream.

  • Music

    April 20, 2006

    Congo Square's Miami Debut

    Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! leaven America with Africa

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2005

    Selected Events for the Week of November 3

    Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! leaven America with Africa

  • Music

    April 7, 2005

    Sax and the City

    Joe Donato digs all that jazz

  • Music

    April 29, 2004

    Jazz Orgy

    Sex Mob flies in the face of traditionalists with its pop-inspired avant-jazz sound

  • Film

    July 11, 2002

    Rewind/Fast Forward Fest

    Florida's Moving Image Archive pulls out some fine footage

  • Culture

    April 12, 2001

    Pop Goes MAM

    From the man who put words to canvas and called it art, Ed Ruscha gets a Miami retrospective

  • Music

    February 22, 2001

    Nothing but Jazz

    Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi plays it every which way

  • Music

    December 14, 2000

    Keeping Bossa Nova

    Heather Davis and Rose Max tend to Brazilian jazz

  • Film

    December 7, 2000

    Tales Without Scripts

    Two documentaries deliver a real taste of Jewish history

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    The Battle Was Won but the War Continues

    So where's that Cuban musical invasion?

  • Music

    June 15, 2000

    Farewell to the Mambo King

    How Tito Puente transformed the timbales and his fans

  • Music

    May 18, 2000

    Miles Davis with John Coltrane

    The Complete Columbia Recordings (Sony)

  • Music

    October 21, 1999

    Meet the Prosthetic Cubans

    Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos

  • Music

    September 23, 1999

    The Man Who Would Be King

    The thrill still isn't gone for B.B. King

  • Music

    February 25, 1999

    Letting Jazz Breathe

    The thrill still isn't gone for B.B. King

  • Music

    November 5, 1998

    Swing Thing

    The thrill still isn't gone for B.B. King

  • Calendar

    October 15, 1998

    Night & Day

    October 15 - 21, 1998

  • Music

    September 17, 1998
  • Calendar

    May 7, 1998

    Night & Day

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • News

    October 9, 1997

    The Quiet Cuban

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Calendar

    June 19, 1997

    Calendar for the week

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Music

    June 12, 1997

    It's Alright, Ma

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Culture

    April 24, 1997

    Knocking the Rock

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Music

    April 17, 1997

    Tito's Top Percussion

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Music

    January 16, 1997

    Rude Boy Invasion

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Calendar

    December 12, 1996

    Calendar for the week

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Calendar

    December 5, 1996

    Calendar for the week

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Music

    October 31, 1996

    The Odd Couple

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Music

    October 12, 1995

    Rotations

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Music

    April 13, 1995

    Rotations

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • News

    February 2, 1994

    Program Notes 42

    When he appeared in Miami last year, jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba ignited a firestorm of controversy. Though he now lives in South Florida, he just wants to play music, not politics.

  • Music

    May 26, 1993

    Conscious Pilot

    Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis refuses to slide on his brothers' reps

  • Dining

    August 12, 1992

    China Beach

    Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis refuses to slide on his brothers' reps

  • Music

    November 27, 1991

    Bottom of the Heap O Top of the World

    Just how popular is Juan Luis Guerra? If you have to ask, you haven't been listening.

  • Culture

    November 6, 1991

    When a Woman Loves a Man

    Just how popular is Juan Luis Guerra? If you have to ask, you haven't been listening.

  • News

    June 26, 1991

    White on Black

    Just how popular is Juan Luis Guerra? If you have to ask, you haven't been listening.

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