“To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question”
Drummer, vocalist, educator Terri Lyne Carrington
“Women have not been socialized to play the drums. It is not natural for us to hit anything”
Facility designed in tribute to the great Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. The architect was Steven Holl.
“What is progress? That we can drive faster on the roads? No, progress is the rest the body needs and the peace the soul requires. Progress is man”s well being.” ”
Frankie Ford was part of the unique Italian American participation, along with Louie Prima, in the seminal, snowballing New Orleans rocksouljazzcarribeanr&b music scene
Mr. Simmons, another of the jazz saxophone experts whose talents were underknown
Ms. Brennan, a first lady of Celtic music who formed the Irish band Clannad with her family in the early 1970’s