International Jazz Day was celebrated on April 30, worldwide. And Luanda was not indifferent, with 2 concerts of the purest Jazz at the House of Arts.
Names like the pianist’s Aaron Goldberg, drummer Macclenty Hunt Jr and Well Street on the double bass, accompanied Stallings’ unparalleled voice.
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Jazz is associated with the struggle for freedom and the abolition of slavery.
In 2012 the International Jazz Day was celebrated for the first time.
The celebration aims to remember the importance of this musical genre and its contribution in promoting different cultures and people throughout history.
Mary Stallings was born in San Francisco, California (08/16/1939).
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Almost 80 now, the African-American singer is a true “hidden treasure” in the current jazz scene.
Stallings left the stage when her career was peaking in the mid-’70s after performing as lead singer in bands of masters like Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine and Count Basie. Her return was in the 1990s, with several major collaborations, having recorded countless albums to this day.
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Born in the United States of America, and spread by the African-American community in the nineteenth century, Jazz became popular in the first decades of the twentieth century.
New Orleans is recognized as the birthplace of jazz.
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