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* Today in Black History - August 29 *
1920 - Charlie "Bird" (Charles Christopher) Parker is born in Kansas
City, Kansas. The jazz saxophonist will become one of the
leaders of the bebop movement and be noted for his works "Ko
Ko" and "In the Still of the Night," among others. He will
receive numerous awards from Downbeat magazine and have the
famous jazz club, Birdland, in New York City named in his
honor.
1924 - Ruth Jones is born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She will be better
known as "Dinah Washington." She will perform with Lionel
Hampton from 1943 to 1946 and become one of the most popular
R & B singers of the 1950's and early 1960's.
1958 - Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana. First with the
family group the Jackson Five and later as a solo artist,
Jackson will be one of pop and Rhythm & Blues' foremost stars.
His solo album "Off the Wall" (1979) will sell 7 million copies
worldwide, surpassed only by "Thriller", his largest-selling
album (also the biggest selling album of all time).
* Today in Black History - September 1 *
1912 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English-born composer of Hiawatha's
Wedding Feast and professor of music at Trinity College of
Music in London, joins the ancestors in Croyden, England.
Coleridge-Taylor was the most important black composer of his
day and toured the United States three times, where he played
with Will Marion Cook, Clarence Cameron White, and collaborated
with Paul Laurence Dunbar in setting several of his poems to
music.
1977 - Ethel Waters, singer and actress, joins the ancestors in Chatsworth,
California at the age of 80. She was the first African American
entertainer to move from vaudeville to 'white' entertainment. She
starred in many movies such as "Something Special" (1971), "Carib
Gold" (1955), "The Member of the Wedding" (1952), "Pinky" (1949),
"Cabin in the Sky" (1943), "Cairo" (1942), "Tales of Manhattan"
(1942), "Black Musical Featurettes, V. 1" (1929), Short Subjects
V. 1" (1929), and "On With the Show" (1929). She also was in the
first network show to feature an African American actress as the
star (The Beulah Show-1950).
* Today in Black History - September 2 *
1902 - "In Dahomey" premieres at the Old Globe Theater in Boston,
Massachusetts. With music by Will Marion Cook and lyrics by poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar, it is the most successful musical of its day.
1928 - Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver is born in Norwalk, Connecticut. He
will become a jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer who will
initially lead the Jazz Messengers with drummer Art Blakey before
forming his own band in 1956. A pioneer of the hard bop style, he
will attract to his band the talents of Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, and
Blue Mitchell, among others.
* Today in Black History - September 3 *
1910 - Dorothy Maynor is born in Norfolk, Virginia. She will become a
renown soprano and will sing with all of the major American and
European orchestras. She will found the Harlem School of the Arts.
* Today in Black History - September 4 *
1942 - Merald 'Bubba' Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will become a
singer with his sister Gladys Knight as part of her background group,
The Pips. They will record many songs including "Midnight Train to
Georgia," "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," "I Heard It Through
the Grapevine," "Every Beat of My Heart," "Letter Full of Tears," and
"The Way We Were/Try to Remember" medley.
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