Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
I thought I'd start a new regular post on Fridays, which I've decided to call Take Five Friday and designed a special image (with a deep bow to the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out on which Paul Desmond's Take...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Bassist/Composer Ben Wolfe will be performing with his Quartet at Cachaca Jazz Club in NYC on September 18th, 2008. Set Times: 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM The Ben Wolfe Quartet Ben Wolfe - Bass Marcus Strickland - Saxophones Luis Perdomo - Piano Marion Felder - Drums “A stalwart bassist.” --New York Times...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Jazz sensation 20ish, Theo Croker is making a global name for himself within the jazz community. Croker the grandson of legendary jazz great Doc Cheatham is leading the family legacy in the jazz world. On June 20, 2008 Theo Croker will perform at the Rubin Museum of Art New York City. The show starts at 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
Into The Blue * Nonesuch 7559-79942-4, £11.99
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Above Billie Holiday is joined by Lester Young , Coleman Hawkins , Ben Webster , Gerry Mulligan , Roy Eldridge , Doc Cheatham , Vic Dickenson , Danny Barker , Milt Hinton , and Mal Waldron . Nope, they don't make music like this anymore.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
The Baltimore Police Department plans to drop administrative sex offense charges against a veteran sergeant.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
The Rev. Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, head of the Baltimore City National Association for Advancement of Colored People, demanded Wednesday that manslaughter charges be brought against six juvenile-school counselors he blamed for a teenager's death.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
The Rev. Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, head of the Baltimore City National Association for Advancement of Colored People, demanded Wednesday that manslaughter charges be brought against six juvenile-school counselors he blamed for a teenager's death.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
The Rev. Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, head of the Baltimore City National Association for Advancement of Colored People, demanded Wednesday that manslaughter charges be brought against six juvenile-school counselors he blamed for a teenager's death.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
They gathered at the site of their friend's slaying to cry out for answers. "Why did it have to be him?" asked eighth-grader Maryum Shadeed, a friend of Zecariah Hallback, 18, who was shot to death during a robbery on Jan. 9 while waiting for a bus at East 33rd Street and The Alameda.
Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
H/T To Stop the ACLU "Firefighters at the East Baltimore station where a noose was found demanded Monday that the NAACP apologize for labeling them racist. Discovery of the noose had drawn sharp criticism from Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, the Baltimore NAACP president, before a black firefighter from the station admitted that he had placed the noose there. "The firefighters that work on his shift want Doc...
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
We read: "Firefighters at the East Baltimore station where a noose was found demanded Monday that the NAACP apologize for labeling them racist. Discovery of the noose had drawn sharp criticism from Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, the Baltimore NAACP president, before a black firefighter from the station admitted that he had placed the noose there. "The firefighters that work on his shift want Doc Cheatham...
Return of the Conservatives (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
Last May, firefighters at a Baltimore, Md., fire station came under scrutiny for displaying a deer with an afro wig, gold tooth, gold chain and a cigarette hanging from its mouth. Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP, went ballistic, charging, "There is now and has been a culture of racism and white supremacy within the Baltimore City Fire Department." As it turns...
Baltimore Crime (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
"The wife of a Southwest Baltimore man killed last year during their daughter's Sweet 16 party testified yesterday to hearing one of the co-defendants yell, "Show him how we do it," before gunshots rang out, according to trial testimony yesterday." Police yesterday identified the man shot Monday night in the 6100 block of Boston St. in O'Donnell Heights and who died that night at Johns Hopkins
Sisyphus (Free subscription) | 12/08/2007
Here is Billie Holiday reunited after many years with tenor saxophonist Lester Young. Introduced by Robert Herridge (producer/host of CBS' "The Sound of Jazz"), this is perhaps the single most famous "live jazz" performance in TV history. Other members of the all-star band seen here: Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Roy Eldridge, Doc Cheatham, Vic Dickenson, Danny Barker, Milt Hinton,...
