March marks the start of Women’s History Month, where we celebrate the contributions of women in history. The push to celebrate notable women in the U.S., began in 1978 in Sonoma County, California, to address the lack of women’s history in the K-12 school curriculum. In 1981, the U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing the […]
Written by Kevin Powell | udiscovermusic.com I cannot recall when I first heard the name Ed Sullivan, but it certainly had to have been when I was a ghetto youth coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s. I initially connected his name with music superstars Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and their now legendary appearances on […]
At one point during his 1955 European tour, Louis Armstrong made an unscheduled pilgrimage. Having just played a concert with his All-Stars, he dashed over to La Scala — to “stand by those big cats like Verdi and Wagner, and take pictures,” he later recalled, “‘cause they figure our music is the same; we play ‘em both […]
