Rapp on Jazz
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Rapp on Jazz, co-produced by South Carolina Public Radio and the ColaJazz Foundation, highlights the Palmetto State's connection to the history of jazz music and the current jazz scene. Join Mark Rapp, executive director of the foundation and host of SC Public Radio’s ColaJazz Presents, for these 60-second segments covering everything from famous South Carolinians like Dizzy Gillespie and Eartha Kitt to the “Big Apple” dance craze of the 1930s to the best clubs to experience jazz in the state.
Latest Episodes
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Nina Simone was a singer, pianist, and force of nature. Born in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, she was classically trained but fused jazz, blues, gospel, and folk into a sound uniquely her own. -
In 1988, Clint Eastwood directed "Bird," a powerful biographical film about saxophone legend Charlie Parker.
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When photographer Art Kane assembled 77 jazz musicians for the iconic 1958 photo A Great Day in Harlem, only three women stood among the crowd: Marian McPartland, Mary Lou Williams, and Hazel Scott. Their presence was quiet but powerful in a sea of men.
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In 1994, director Jean Bach gave us "A Great Day in Harlem," a one-hour documentary that peels back the remarkable story behind Art Kane’s legendary 1958 photograph of jazz legends gathered on a Harlem stoop.
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From its beginnings, jazz has drawn deeply from African American spirituals — songs of sorrow, strength, and hope.
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Vinyl records are back in a big way, and nowhere is their revival more celebrated than in jazz.
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In 1963, the nation was shaken by the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. John Coltrane responded not with words, but with music.
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Few figures in jazz history embody both power and poetry quite like Charles Mingus.