Saxophonist Bernie McGann was once hired by a juggler, who tossed him some sheet music, counted in the tune and began juggling. McGann didn’t play a note; just stood staring at the music, knowing he shouldn’t have come. The juggler needed McGann, but McGann didn’t need the juggler. He could…
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The cover tells the story. Three young black men stare defiantly at the camera from a lunch counter, while the waiter’s curdled expression makes plain they’ve sat in a whites-only area of a segregated diner. Sixty years later and, like our own black population, African Americans still face racism in…
She met any transgression with such a withering glare that her eyes were more like flamethrowers than headlights; the voice imperious, with a crust of sarcasm. Nina Simone could scare the pants off her band and fans, alike. Watch, in Netflix’s gripping What Happened, Miss Simone?, her stop playing to…