“I Called Him Morgan” a documentary film about the trumpet legend Lee Morgan, and Helen Morgan, the lady who shot Lee Morgan, has been selected to be shown at The Venice International Film Festival (http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/73rd-festival/line-up/), in September 2016. Directed and written by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin, it will feature interviews, …

Jazz music lovers are thoroughly excited, smiling and extremely happy about the jazz lineup at the upcoming 40th Annual Spoleto Festival USA, in beautiful, scenic, historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The 17-day (May 26—June 12, 2016) festival, which features theater, opera, dance, visual art, special events, artist talks and music, …

The busy, expanding, thoroughly-satisfying jazz scene in what is called the “Triangle” area of the Piedmont section of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill) just keeps getting better and better. Who needs the New York or the D.C. jazz scene when everybody seems to be coming this way? The …

DAVID SANBORN, MARCUS MILLER, PONCHO SANCHEZ, LALAH HATHAWAY and More. The Friends of John Coltrane,Inc., a High Point, North Carolina-based arts organization, presents, The Fifth Annual John Coltrane International Jazz And Blues Festival, September 5 and 6, 2015 from 3 pm to 10 pm, at Oak Hollow Park, 1841 Eastchester …

The Sixth Annual Ocean City Beach (NC) Jazz Festival will be held on Friday, July 3, 2015, and Saturday, July 4. 2015. from 5 pm until 8 pm, both days. Scheduled performers on Friday, are Fayetteville, North Carolina resident trumpet smooth jazz sensation Willie Bradley; North Carolina Central University Jazz …

“I am not on anybody’s side. I am not on Lee Morgan’s side. I am not on Helen Morgan’s side. I am on the side of history.”–Larry Reni Thomas, author “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan” (book) (wwww.khabooks.com) LMS Show 5 Lee Morgan Tweet

Larry Reni Thomas, the author of the recently published book, The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan (khabooks) (www.khabooks.com) , is scheduled to be interviewed on “TV Durham Skywriter” http://www.durhamskywriter.com/ by host Patricia A. Murray, December 14, 2014, at 7 p.m. (EST). Thomas will talk about his experience with Helen Morgan, …

Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking Of Barriers in American Music (author Edward Berger) (2014) Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking Of Barriers in American Music (Temple University Press, 2014) by author /photographer Edward Berger, is an excellent, well-written biography of a pioneer who was an …

GREAT BLACK MUSIC—Kahil El Zabar—Delmark TRILOGY—Chick Corea Trio—Concord GREAT VOICES OF HARLEM—Porter, Scott, Smith—Pao EIGHT TRACK—Dave Stryker—Strikezone SONGS MY MOTHER LOVES–Dee Alexander—Blujazz SALSA DE LA BAHIA (VOL. 1 and 2)—Various Artists—Patois THE ARTISTRY OF THE STANDARD—Misha Tsiganov—Criss Cross THE ORIGINAL MONO RECORDINGS—Miles Davis—Columbia PUSHING THE WORLD AWAY—Kenny Garrett—Mack Avenue MIDNIGHT …

The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan author, Larry Reni Thomas, is scheduled to be on WNCU-FM, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Durham, North Carolina, October 22, 2014, from 5 pm to 6pm, during the jazz station’s fall fundraiser, which takes place until October 24, 2014. Thomas, a veteran writer/radio announcer/lecturer, …