March 9, 1930 Ornette Coleman, jazz saxophonist, trumpeter and composer, was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Coleman began touring with rhythm and blues shows in 1949 and in 1958 led his first recording session, “Something Else!!!!: The Music of Ornette Coleman.”
Ornette Coleman – March 9th in African American History
Tags: composer, Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, jazz, March 9, NEA Jazz Master, Pulitzer Prize, University of Michigan
Mary Violet Leontyne Price – February 10th in African American History
Tags: Broadway, Central State College, February 10, Grammy Award, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, NAACP, National Medal of Arts, opera, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Spingarn Medal
February 10, 1927 Mary Violet Leontyne Price, operatic soprano, was born in Laurel, Mississippi. Price earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Central State College in 1948 and her first important stage performance was in the 1952 production of “Falstaff.”
John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie – January 6th in African American History
Tags: composer, Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, January 6, Kennedy Center Honors, National Endowment for the Arts, National Medal of Arts, October 21, singer
January 6, 1993 John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer, died. Gillespie was born October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina. By the age of four, he had started to play the piano. He also taught himself to play the trombone and the trumpet. His first professional job was with the Frank […]
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller – December 15th in African American History
Tags: Broadway, composer, December 15, Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, May 21, organist, Songwriters Hall of Fame
December 15, 1943 Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller, jazz pianist, organist and composer, died. Waller was born May 21, 1904 in New York City. He started playing the piano at the age of six. At the age of 14, he was playing the organ at Harlem’s Lincoln Theater and within 12 months had composed his first […]
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson – January 23rd in African American History
Tags: athlete, Broadway, College Football Hall of Fame, Columbia Law School, football, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, NAACP, Rutgers University, scholar, Spingarn Medal
January 23, 1976 Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson, concert singer, scholar, stage and film actor, athlete, and multi-lingual orator, died. Robeson was born April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. He won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University, the third African American student accepted at Rutgers. Although he was the only black student on campus […]
December 30th in African American History – Elias Otha Bates (Bo Diddley)
Tags: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, songwriter
December 30, 1928 Elias Otha Bates (Bo Diddley), vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1934, his family moved to Chicago, Illinois where in the early 1940s Diddley began to perform. In 1954, he recorded “Bo Diddley” which became a number one R&B hit in 1955. He continued to have hits during […]
December 10th in African American History – Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, III
Tags: Army, comedian, Grammy Award, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, writer
December 10, 2005 Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, III, comedian, writer and actor, died. Pryor was born December 1, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois. After his discharge from the army in 1960, he began working as a professional comic in clubs throughout the Midwest. In 1963, he moved to New York City and began to gain […]
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