Veterans of City Opera, Proudly Wistful, Reflect as the Curtain Falls - NYTimes.com

This is extremely sad.  I remember the NYC Opera with fondness.  Yes the Met is still with us but as a young grade school student my first exposure to opera live was at the NYC Opera at Town Hall.  At Hunter College my opera class was taught by the Assistant Director of the NYC Opera.   NYC is losing a major cultural institution.   In an era where American culture has in part devolved into a form of pop fast food entertainment we need to preserve the arts in all of it's forms.

Watch "Wayne Shorter on The Power of Women" on YouTube

The Single Petal Of A Rose

DON PULLEN - Ah George, We Hardly Knew Ya

DON PULLEN - Ah George, We Hardly Knew Ya

Don Pullen, George Adams Quartet - Song From The Old Country

David Murray, Pomona College 2012 Commencement

David Murray Octet Morning Song 1987. These were the days. I used to manage David in the early eighties. I used to hear this band sometimes six nights in a row. They breathed fire.

Clifford Jordan - Prayer To The People

The Jazz Pianist That John F. Kennedy Saved. Fifty years ago this week, John F. Kennedy granted a presidential pardon to jazz pianist Hampton Hawes—and helped make him a legend.

The Jazz Pianist That John F. Kennedy Saved

Carline Ray, an Enduring Pioneer Woman of Jazz, Dies at 88 - NYTimes.com

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm photographed in the 1940s with Carline Ray on guitar, third from left in the second row.

 

Carline Ray, a pioneering jazz instrumentalist and vocalist who joined the all-female International Sweethearts of Rhythm in the 1940s, later performed with Erskine Hawkins and Mary Lou Williams and this year released her first recording as a lead vocalist, died on July 18 in Manhattan. She was 88.

Carline Ray, an Enduring Pioneer Woman of Jazz, Dies at 88 - NYTimes.com: ""

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Jazz Departments: Terence Blanchard Remembers Mulgrew Miller - By Terence Blanchard — Jazz Articles

Late piano master was "the shining example of everything good in this world," writes trumpeter

By Terence Blanchard

Jazz Departments: Terence Blanchard Remembers Mulgrew Miller - By Terence Blanchard — Jazz Articles

Onaje Allan Gumbs Interview

Onaje Allan Gumbs Interview - YouTube

Sonny Rollins / Jack DeJohnette / David Murray - Jazz Jamboree Live (1983) - YouTube

Sonny Rollins / Jack DeJohnette / David Murray - Jazz Jamboree Live (1983) - YouTube