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Happy birthday, Ella Fitzgerald.
Today we celebrate with photos of the one and only Queen of Jazz and other musical icons.
(Eliot Elisofon—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
FRANCE IS THE 14Th COUNTRY TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE!
Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!
Voilà. Ça, c’est fait.
(via newsweek)
Kinshasa Symphony, The Congo
“The film shows how some people living there have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra performing composers like Handel, Verdi, Beethoven. “Kinshasa Symphony” shows Kinshasa in all its diversity, speed, colour, vitality and energy. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.” via
watch the trailer for the documentary here
for more info on the project click here
gorgeous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Gagosian, Feb 7-April 6
gagosian.com:
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/jean-michel-basquiat—february-07-2013
(via blackcontemporaryart)
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Caption from LIFE. “With his trumpet glowing like a hot coal, Louis Armstrong first ripped into jazz in New Orleans 37 years ago …. [He is] a superb musician and a clear spellbinder.”
See more photos here.
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