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Jazz Hall of Fame |
http://www.digitrends.com/jazz/
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame makes its home in
the historic Carver Theatre for the Performing Arts.
Upon entering the Carver Theatre, the Museum can
be seen through the etched window with the famous
music and lyrics of Birmingham native Erskine Hawkins'
"Tuxedo Junction". The museum honors great jazz
artists with ties to the state of Alabama. While
furnishing educational information, the museum is
also a place for entertainment. Exhibits convey
the accomplishments of the likes of Nat King Cole,
Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Erskine Hawkins
and the music that made them famous. Within this
fine musical collection, visitors travel from the
beginnings of boogie woogie with Clarence "Pinetop"
Smith to the jazz space journeys of Sun Ra and His
Intergalactic Space Arkestra. |
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Alabama
Jazz and Blues Federation
http://www.ajbf.com/
Founded in 1990 as the Alabama Jazz Federation with
the encouragement of the Alabama State Council on
the Arts, it incorporated as a 501(c) (3) non-profit
organization in February of 1991. In a move to broaden
its membership and audience, it became the Alabama
Jazz and Blues Federation in August of 1994. AJBF
is an all volunteer corporation dedicated to preserving
and perpetuating jazz and blues in Alabama. Today
we produce a myriad of events including two monthly
jam sessions, one blues the other jazz, two festivals,
River Jam and a Big Band Jazz Festival, as many
as 10 concerts a year and several musician clinics
and workshops. |
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Alabama
Music Hall of Fame
http://www.alamhof.org
The Alabama Music Hall of Fame was a dream and goal
of the Muscle Shoals Music Association, a Shoals
area based professional organization of recording
studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters
and other music professionals. In 1980, through
their efforts, the State legislature, with the leadership
of State Senator Bobby Denton, created a state agency,
the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board, with a mandate
to honor all of this state's great music achievers,
and to build a facility in which to showcase these
talented individuals and their accomplishments.
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Boyd
Campbell's Music Links and Band Directory
http://www.visaus.com/music.html
Your Web connection to Alabama and regional bands
and music entertainers, featuring Deep South rock
'n' roll, Southern jazz, blues, R&B, Cajun/Zydeco,
and Boyd's personal Alabama band reviews .
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WJAB-FM:
Huntsville Jazz Station
http://www.aamu.edu/WJAB/
WJAB-FM is a professional, non-commercial radio
station serving the interests of the citizens of
Huntsville and surrounding areas. A mixture of various
forms of jazz and blues dominates WJAB-FM's twenty-four
hour, seven-day-a-week format. |
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WUAL:
Alabama Public Radio
http://www.wual.ua.edu/index2.htm
Listen to Jazz nightly throughout Alabama Monday
through Thursday from 8 PM to 11 PM on WUAL. |
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WVAS:
Montgomery Jazz Station
http://www.alasu.edu/wvas/
WVAS-FM began its first broadcast on June 15, 1984,
with 25,000 watts of power from the campus of Alabama
State University, a historically African-American
institution. The station's studios were initially
located on the fifth floor of ASU's Levi Watkins
Learning Center for two years before moving to its
current location at Thomas Kilby Hall. WVAS is the
only full-time jazz station in the southern half
of Alabama. |
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