Gulf Coast Ethnic Heritage Festival 2013 Brings Free Jazz to Downtown Mobile
The 13th annual Gulf Coast Ethnic Heritage Festival will bring live jazz and celebration to downtown Mobile on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2013, with a free evening of music at The…
Mobile-Born Writer Albert Murray Honored in New York Magazine’s ‘9 Over 90’ Feature
A Mobile native who has spent more than half a century shaping American letters and jazz criticism from New York City is getting fresh recognition this month. The Oct. 4…
Mobile’s Jazz Week Opened With a Tribute to Etta James and Aretha Franklin at Club 351
MOBILE, Ala. — The stretch of days Mobile music writers had taken to calling the city’s own “Jazz Week” opened on Sunday night, August 1, 2010, with a tribute to…
Prichard’s Own: How Lil Greenwood Went From Sunday School to Duke Ellington’s Bandstand
Long before she earned the nickname "One Take Lil" from Duke Ellington, Prichard native Lil Greenwood was a schoolteacher with a voice that would carry her from a San Francisco…
Jazz Appreciation Month: Mobile’s Own, Part 6 — Cootie Williams and the Sound That Redefined the Trumpet
For Jazz Appreciation Month, a look back at Mobile-born trumpeter Cootie Williams, whose growling plunger-mute style with Duke Ellington's orchestra and decades on the bandstand made him one of the…