be/zUyQkutes10 Les McCann 8r Eddie Harris — Compared to What -- https://youtu.be/Jv0fnSBf0Do John Lennon — Imagine -- https://youtu.be/WB0yNiqGKCU Louis Armstrong — What a Wonderful World -- https://youtu.be/E2VCwBzGdPM Tina Turner — Simply The Best -- I hope that you have enjoyed this weekend's offerings and

orn in Harlem to Jamaican immigrant parents, Osmond and Evadne McRae. She began studying piano when she was eight, and the music of jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington filled her home. She met singer Billie Holiday when she was just 17 years old. As a teenager McRae came to the attention of Tedd

ences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, and country artists of the day including Art Tatum, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, and Louis Armstrong, thou=h he maintained that he was most influenced by Nat King Cole. His playi=g reflected influences from country blues, barrelhouse and stride pian

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et me for lunch. He didn’t know he was my birthday present. When I told him, he immediately began to speculate as to who he would want as a present: “Louis Armstrong,” he said would be his first choice. “He’s dead,” I reminded him. “Exactly,” he replied. “Jimmy Hoffa would be my second choice.” “He’s missing,”