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10th Annual Fall Guest Artist Series

You’re Invited to the Jazz Ensemble Concert on Friday, November 20, 2009, at 8 p.m. in the B.N. Duke Auditorium, NCCU Campus. Chancellor…

Legacy of Durham’s Black Wall Street and North Carolina Central University

On Sunday, November 15, 2009, The Parrish Street Advocacy Group Programming Series presents The Legacy of Durham’s Black Wall Street and North Carolina…

Thanksgiving Night of Jazz Masters

On Thanksgiving night, Thursday the 27th, WNCU will broadcast a special evening of jazz masters. At 7pm, Ken Grady will feature vocalists ranging…

Mingus-Sun Ra Re-Broadcast

Well, you asked for it and now WNCU is going to deliver. On Friday, November the 27th at 8pm, WNCU will re-broadcast the…

Free Download: The Billy Hart Quartet, Live In Concert

When you’ve been around as long as Billy Hart has been — over four decades in New York — you hear a lot…

Mingus Big Band and Sun Ra Arkestra

On Saturday, the September 26, WNCU will broadcast the Mingus Big Band and the Sun Ra Arkestra live. In partnership with Duke Performances,…

WNCU Partners with Lenora Zenzalai Helm

Lenora Zenzalai Helm, award winning jazz vocal musician, composer, lyricist and educator will perform a concert celebrating her new CD, Chronicles of a…

Rasheed Ali Dies at 76

Rashied Ali was a progenitor and leading exponent of multidirectional rhythms/polytonal percussion. A student of Philly Joe Jones and an admirer of Art…

Les Paul Dies at 94

Les Paul, acclaimed guitar player, entertainer and inventor, passed away today from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plain,…

NCCU Ensembles: Newport Jazz Festival 2009

The men’s basketball team at North Carolina Central University doesn’t quite compete on the same level of its powerful ACC neighbors — Duke,…

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