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Jazz Appreciation Month JAM
April was picked by the Smithsonian in part because there were so many Jazz musician born in April, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Johnny Dodds, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers, Tito Puente, Herbie Hancock, and Carmen McRae.
It's as good a month as any to celebrate a form of music that has crossed ages, generations, color lines and international waters!
Anonymous - "Music is what feelings sound like."
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 Featured Artist
Carmen McRae
April 8, 1920- November 10, 1994
Although Carmen was 8 years younger than her idol Billie Holiday, she was a contemporary of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Even though she never reached the lofty star status of these ladies she created her own powerful niche! Carmen was able to put so much emotion in each and every song she sang that many would find themselves in tears and lost in her voice. Carmen, and many others did not consider her to be a Jazz vocalist but her ability to put such feeling in the songs she covered says, to me that she deserves to be highlighted here this month!
To find out about this fascinating artist step right over here Carmen McRae
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Reggie Eldridge
Reggie Eldridge is an poet, educator, musician and performer who has just recently relocated to Chicago from Florida.
Since 2006, he has toured the United States and beyond as a performance and slam poet, including 4 consecutive years as a finalist in the Southern Fried Poetry Slam. He has released two chapbooks and three albums, the most recent of which, The Awakening, can be found on Amazon.com, iTunes and other fine online retailers.
In 2009, he co-founded Sacred Sounds Poetry, Tampa's first and only monthly poetry slam, which will host the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2012. Also a budding scholar and instructor, Reggie has given university lectures on the role of the arts in the construction of marginalized identity, and is seeking to expand the dimensions of research on performance and slam poetry.
Listen carefully to what he has to say, here
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Featured Recipe
I discovered a wonderful drink "Apple Pie In A Jar" a few years ago at the Kane County Flea Market. After a small sample I was hooked! I bought several jars and began experimenting with it. I have found that it taste very yummy mixed with vanilla ice cream, ginger ale or poured over fruit! My personal favorite way to drink it is warm with a shot of Hennessy! :-) LOL
Drop in and get your jar of "Apple Pie In A Jar"
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