Joseph Anthony “Fud” Livingston (1906-1957) was a jazz virtuoso who not only arranged music, but played saxophone, clarinet, and piano. This Charleston, South Carolina, native composed the music for “I’m Thru with Love,” which was popularized into a standard. The song was recorded by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Marilyn Monroe, and Ella Fitzgerald, and … Read more
SC Public Radio’s Tut Underwood produced a wonderful segment aired nationally on NPR Radio. LISTEN TO IT NOW! For many years, jazz great Marian McPartland welcomed some of the biggest names in – and out of – jazz to her NPR program, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. March 20, on the 101st anniversary of her birth, … Read more
ColaJazz is the only jazz organization in South Carolina selected to offer Jazz at Lincoln Center’s after school pilot program. In partnership with the Auntie Karen Foundation, ColaJazz will implement the Jazz at Lincoln Center Afterschool Content (JALC-AC) to multiple Boys & Girls Clubs sites around South Carolina and offer refinements to the program for … Read more
In partnership with 1626 Main, ColaJazz is highlighting Columbia’s amazing jazz talent in a weekend brunch series combining the best of the Soda City Market experience with an amazing menu, excellent ambiance and fantastic acoustics. “We started a few months ago trying out dinner and jazz events, working through various bumps in the road and … Read more
ColaJazz and the Koger Center for the Arts present a quarterly jazz series dubbed “Live in the Lobby: Jazz!” presenting world-class jazz performances in a very unique, exciting space in the Koger Center – the Grand Tier! This second story level of the lobby is surrounded by a wall of stunning glass windows and the … Read more
“It’s quite remarkable how many great jazz musicians came from the state of South Carolina and Charleston, in particular. لعب البوكر على الانترنت ” – Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University This week, SC Jazz History gives us a look at famed trumpet players, William Alonzo “Cat” Anderson and Leo “The Whistler” … Read more
Hundreds of residents were ordered out of a public housing complex Jan. 18 after authorities found two men dead in separate apartments and “multiple” gas leaks throughout Allen Benedict Court. Now the displaced residents are spread out in hotels, motels and other housing arrangements that they paid for or the CHA is paying for while … Read more
South Carolina is the birthplace and home to many jazz influencers. Once such group is the Jenkins Orphanage Band of Charleston, South Carolina. Jabbo Smith, who was Jazz’s #2 trumpeter, got his start with the Jenkins Orphanage Band. In the late 1930’s, Jabbo reportedly is the one who encouraged a 17 year old Sarah Vaughn … Read more