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Jazz review: Woody Allen's New Orleans band at Royce Hall
Culture MonsterKirk Silsbee reviews Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band. A little bit of Gotham came west Thursday night, as Woody Allen’s New Orleans band played at UCLA. Los Angeles Times review.... -
The Arts on TV: Sister Wendy; Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett
Culture Monster“Grand Canyon Serenade” 8 p.m. Thursday KVCR: A visual tour of the Grand Canyon is set to classical music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak. “Globe Trekker” 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Saturday KLCS; 9 p.m. Monday KCET: Amsterdam... -
Louis Armstrong moves to Chicago
![At 11:30 p.m. on this date, the Illinois Central train from New Orleans eased into Chicago's 12th Street Station carrying an unknown, 21-year-old trumpeter who soon would turn the city-- and the rest of the world--on its ear. "When the conductor came through the train hollering, `Chicago, next stop' . . . a funny feeling started running up and down my spine," Louis Armstrong recalled later. "I was all eyes looking out of the window. . . . Anybody watching me closely could have easily seen that I was a country boy."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-08/34343999-18125614.jpg "At 11:30 p.m. on this date, the Illinois Central train from New Orleans eased into Chicago's 12th Street Station carrying an unknown, 21-year-old trumpeter who soon would turn the city-- and the rest of the world--on its ear. "When the conductor came through the train hollering, `Chicago, next stop' . . . a funny feeling started running up and down my spine,\" Louis Armstrong recalled later. \"I was all eyes looking out of the window. . . . Anybody watching me closely could have easily seen that I was a country boy.\"")
Tribune staff reporterAt 11:30 p.m. on this date, the Illinois Central train from New Orleans eased into Chicago's 12th Street Station carrying an unknown, 21-year-old trumpeter who soon would turn the city-- and the rest of the world--on its ear. "When the conductor came...Tags: Louis Armstrong, Jazz (genre), Nat King Cole, Muhal Richard Abrams, Gene Ammons
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Celebrity traveler: Dorothy Tucker
Special to the Chicago TribuneDorothy Tucker has been in the television news business for three decades and for 22 years has been a reporter on Channel 2 news. She can be seen on the 5 and 10 p.m. broadcasts, where she specializes in consumer stories. Born and raised in Chicago,...Tags: Family, Television, Josephine Baker, Hawaii, Children
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Treasures of music lovers now just so much debris
Tribune arts criticFor more than a century, musicians and fans in this proudly musical city have hoarded mementos of their culture. Self-styled collectors packed tiny attics with precious scores, filled ramshackle apartments with antique musical instruments and stored...Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), Wars and Interventions, History, Jazz (genre), Death
Dec 30, 2011
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Dec 19, 2007
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Oct 19, 2008
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Nov 27, 2006
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