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    By Emmett G. Price III, CEO and Chairman of the Board, JazzBoston

    On July 17, 1977, ten years to the date of the passing of John Coltrane, Yedidyah Syd Smart, Leonard Brown and Hayes Burnett gave birth to the John Coltrane Memorial Concert. Now 39 years later, the John Coltrane Memorial Concert stands as the world’s oldest annual performance tribute to the musical and spiritual legacy of John Coltrane. This rich legacy is the result of the consistent, passionate stewardship of Smart and Brown…

    Arriving in Boston during the late 1960s, Yedidyah quickly emerged as a leading force in the pronouncement of “Great Black Music.” His band, Boston Art Ensemble (akin to The Art Ensemble of Chicago), served as an anchor in Boston’s free and creative improvisation music scene. By 1976, he had opened his loft – located on the corner of Beach and Lincoln streets in Chinatown – to the public as the Friends of Great Black Music Loft, and it was here that the first John Coltrane Memorial conc
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    A celebration of N.O.history-making women

    10th February 2020   ·   0 Comments

    In honor of Black History Month, The Louisiana Weekly is this week illuminating, celebrating, and commemorating women from New Orleans who are history makers.

    EDUCATORS

    Sylvanie Francoz Williams, an African-American educator and clubwoman, was born in New Orleans. Williams wrote a report on the educational, economic, and cultural conditions of Black residents of New Orleans and presented it at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. She worked as a school administrator and principal of the Fisk School Girls’ Department and later at the Thomy Lafon School. The latter school was burned down during rioting in 1900 but rebuilt under her leadership. Among her students was A. P. Tureaud, a prominent civil rights lawyer.

    Williams was founder and president of the Phillis Wheatley Club, a prominent organization for Black women

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    Song of the Day: Swing Low Sweet Chariot

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    Mahalia Jackson, the “Queen of Gospel,” born in New Orleans in 1911, and at age 60, passed on to her reward on this day, January 27th, in 1972. Maid, laundress, date packer and beautician before a Chicago choir director recognized her phenomenal singing ability and dubbed her “First Soloist.”

    By 1956 she was internationally famous; and she lent her röst in support of Civil Rights seekers at the non-violent March on Washington in 1963, becoming Dr. Martin Luther King’s “favorite opening act”!

    One of the innumerable spirituals she sang, “Swing Low,” alludes to the anticipation we all experience for that inevitable excursion to the “other side”—to being carried “home.”

    This New Orleans Jazz NHP version of the song begins like a halvmåneform City begravning procession (slow and somber chords and choir) only to break into upbeat temp