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Paschal's La Carrousel was a jazz club in Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1960, it became known as Atlanta's "jazz mecca" as it featured top-name artists such as Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Gladys Knight, and Jimmy Smith. [1] It was the only nightclub in Atlanta open to blacks in the then-segregated city.
"New Jazz" is the eighth episode of the third season of the American comedy-drama television series Atlanta. It is the 29th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator and main actor Donald Glover and directed by executive producer Hiro Murai. It was first broadcast on FX in the United States on May 5, 2022.
Bruce Hampton (born Gustav Valentine Berglund III; April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) [1] was an American musician. He was a key figure in the Atlanta, Georgia music scene, mentoring numerous other musicians who became national stars.
The Jazz of the City Atlanta [1] is a historic, color portrait of over 100 jazz musicians surrounding then-Mayor Shirley Franklin created in the Atlanta City Hall Atrium. [2] Similar to the iconic, black and white, jazz portrait A Great Day in Harlem [3] taken by Art Kane [4] in 1958 — THE JAZZ OF THE CITY ATLANTA 2007 photograph marked a ...
[11] The New York Times cited the season's episode "Crank Dat Killer" as a fundamental explanation of the series as a whole, "This could be a joke about how everyone knows everybody in Atlanta, or about the labyrinthine design of shopping centers, which, like casinos, want you to forget time itself. But the joke, like every other bit in the ...
The then-WJZA's smooth jazz format was soft-launched in October 2017 and was the first smooth jazz station to broadcast in the Atlanta area since 2012. Broadcasters who work for the station include Art Terrell, Sandy Kovach, Miranda Wilson, Allen Kepler, and Maria Lopez.
WCLK collaborated with the City of Atlanta to create the Jazz of the City Atlanta portrait featuring over 100 jazz musicians surrounding Mayor Shirley Franklin in the Atlanta City Hall Atrium. The color photograph by Seve "Obasina" Adigun and Gregory Turner, taken in April 2007, mirrors the iconic, classic, black-and-white image, A Great Day in ...
In 2001, Johnson was one of the first six recipients of the Paul Mitchell Community Jazz Awards, presented by local station WRFG. [4] On June 21, 2010, a tribute to Johnson was held at Atlanta jazz club Café 290 in honor of his 30 years on the air at WABE. [1] The Atlanta City Council declared the day "H. Johnson Day" in his honor. [5]