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Ella Fitzgerald: Born April 25, 1917

Spend Sunday with Ella

Ella Fitzgerald would have been 104 years old today. WKCR didn't forget: it's running a festival of Ella Fitzgerald, all day Sunday, April 25. Wherever you are on the planet, stream at WKCR.org.

-Nick Moy

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Duke Ellington: Born April 29, 1899

Duke Ellington: All Day Thursday, April 29

Duke Ellington would have turned 121 years old April 29. Rely on WKCR to celebrate: for the 24 hours of April 29, listen to Duke’s music non-stop. Wherever you are on the planet, listen at WKCR.org.

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"No, I Am Not Getting Rid of My Thousands of CDs"

Here's another media influencer, with a legion of followers, who refuses to concede in his personal battle -- for now, at least, persisting in a battle that many of his followers still share. Fortunately, I would submit, this battle is relatively benign. New York Times classical music critic Anthony Tommasini confides why he's not giving up his obsession with physical CDs.

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In New Orleans, 2021 JazzFest Lives On in Spirit

There won't be a New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, or JazzFest, this April, at least as it's been recently known, but New Orleans seems determined to carry on its spirit this week. If you can't make it to events in town, WWOZ will be streaming classic JazzFest performances by the likes of Sonny Rollins, Dr. John, allen Toussaint and Mahalia Jackson. Keith Spera furnishes details on the local festivities via NOLA.com.

-Nick Moy

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Alain Marquet's Jazz Museum of Paris

Like Marc Myers, I have yet to visit this intgiuing looking shop tucked away in Montmartre in Paris. Until we are ready to travel to Paris again, we'll have to make do with this JazzWax dispatch, with its alluring photos from photographer Gilles D'Elia.

-Nick Moy

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Saving Sun Ra's Philadelphia House

In the Philadelphia enclave of Germantown stands the row house where Sun Ra and members of his Arkestra resided, physically, musically and in spirit, for decades. That Sun Ra house is now facing collapse, and a local philanthropist and neighbors are rallying to save it. Peter Crimmins reports on that effort for Philadelphia's WHYY.

-Nick Moy

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A Love Supreme: Recorded December 9, 1964

Why John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is Nile Rodgers' All-Time Favorite Record

Watch and listen to Nile Rodgers explain, at some length and with considerable passion, what John Coltrane's A Love Supreme meant to him, starting in his youth, and why he now picks it as his all-time favorite record in Rolling Stone's survey of the 500 greatest albums

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Getting Through the Pandemic: How John Coltrane is Helping

Natalie Ruth Joynton's account of how John Coltrane, and in particular, A Love Supreme is helping her navigate the pandemic. Did Coltrane envision that his work would have such an effect in such a time?

-Nick Moy

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