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Reuben Harrison Hunt. Website. Venue Website. The Tabernacle[2][3] is a mid-size concert hall located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Opening in 1911 as a church, the building was converted into a music venue in 1996. It is owned and managed by concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment and has a capacity of 2,600 people.
"St. James Infirmary" on tenor sax "St. James Infirmary" is an American blues and jazz standard that emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. Louis Armstrong brought the song to lasting fame through his 1928 recording, on which Don Redman is named as composer; later releases credit "Joe Primrose", a pseudonym used by musician manager, music promoter and publisher Irving Mills. [1]
The festival was organized by a seventeen-member promotional team that included Chris Cowing, Robin Conant and Alex Cooley. Cooley was also one of the organizers of the Texas International Pop Festival a few weeks later on Labor Day weekend, as well as the second, and last, Atlanta International Pop Festival the following summer, and the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico from April 1 to 3 ...
Opened. 1960. Closed. 1996. Paschal's La Carrousel was a jazz club in Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1960, it became known as Atlanta's "jazz mecca" as it featured top-name artists such as Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Gladys Knight, and Jimmy Smith. [1] It was the only nightclub in Atlanta open to blacks in the then-segregated city.
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WCLK. WCLK (91.9 FM) – branded as Jazz 91.9 – is a non-commercial jazz radio station licensed to serve Atlanta, Georgia. Owned by Clark Atlanta University, the station covers much of the Atlanta metropolitan area. [2][3] The WCLK studios are located on the Clark University campus at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, while the station ...
The Jazz of the City Atlanta [1] is a historic, color portrait of over 100 jazz musicians surrounding then-Mayor Shirley Franklin created in the Atlanta City Hall Atrium. [2] Similar to the iconic, black and white, jazz portrait A Great Day in Harlem [3] taken by Art Kane [4] in 1958 — THE JAZZ OF THE CITY ATLANTA 2007 photograph marked a ...
1962. The Rialto Center for the Arts is an 833-seat performing-arts venue owned and operated by Georgia State University [1] and located in the heart of the Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The venue is home to the Rialto Series, an annual subscription series featuring national and international jazz, world music, and dance.