Listen to The Miles Davis Music Marathon, on “Sunday Night Jazz with Larry Thomas,” (9pm-12midnight), May 18, 2014 on WCOM-FM (www.wcomfm.org), Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina. The three-hour program will include interviews with his daughter, Cheryl Davis, his youngest son, Erin, and his nephew, VInce Wilburn, Jr., a drummer who performed …
Larry Reni Thomas, the author of the recently published book, The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan, (KHA Books) will be interviewed on “Straight No Chaser”, WRFG-FM (www.wrfg.org), Atlanta, Georgia, April 19, 2014, 10:00 am (EDT) by host Lovelle Hooks. Thomas will talk about his experience with Helen Morgan, whom he …
BOOK SIGNING: THE LADY WHO SHOT LEE MORGAN by LARRY RENI THOMAS APRIL 5, 2014 The Flyleaf Book Store, Chapel Hill, North Carolina The Flyleaf Bookstore, 752 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill North Carolina, presents a book signing, April 5, 2014, at 2 pm, featuring Chapel Hill, North …
Chapel Hill, NC—I am a very fortunate jazz junkie because my father was a serious Count Basie fan, who also enjoyed listening to Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck and other jazz giants. When he came home from delivering the mail, in Wilmington, North Carolina, he …
Pianist Albert “Chip” Crawford, a Raleigh, North Carolina native, who has recently been touring the world as a vital, vibrant part of the band that backs up the very popular vocalist, Gregory Porter, is coming home for a performance at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Crawford …
HISTORY OF JAZZ BY LARRY RENI THOMAS 1620—1865—SLAVE AMERICAN—GOSPEL MUSIC 1865—1900—FREED AMERICAN—BLUES MUSIC 1900—1945—NEGRO AMERICAN—JAZZ 1945—PRESENT–BLACK AMERICAN–MODERN JAZZ The history of jazz is an easy one because it traces the phases that the captured Afrikan has gone through since living in the United States of America. From 1620 to 1865, …
Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Avenue, Wilmington, North Carolina, presents a book signing, February 21, 2014, at 7 pm, featuring Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based writer/radio announcer, Larry Reni Thomas, who will sign copies and talk about his latest book, The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan. The book is about former Wilmington, …
MEDIA RELEASE: KHA BOOKS (www.black-e-books.com) is proud to announce the publication of the exclusive story of Helen Morgan: THE LADY WHO SHOT LEE MORGAN by LARRY RENI THOMAS. Contact: H. Khalif Khalifah, khalifah1@khabooks.com P.O. Box 9, Drewryville, Va. 23844 (434) 378-2140 “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan is the title …
The Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Thomas, a lecture about the fact that there are over 75 native North Carolina jazz musicians, will take place February 3, 2014 at 6:30 pm, at The Farmville Public Library, 4276 W. Church Street, Farmville, North Carolina. Thomas, a veteran Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based …
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