10 jazz greats will appear at the Monterey Jazz Festival

From: Michigan Citizen | Date: June 3, 1995| Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal | Copyright information


Michigan Citizen

06-03-1995

10 jazz greats will appear at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Jazz legends jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Eubie Blake, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Erroll Garner, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus will be appearing together for the first time at the Monterey Jazz Festival presented by MCI, Saturday, September 16, in the Postal Service's latest Legends of American Music stamp series.

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