Lena Horne News

Ron Murphy will lead his quintet to entertain Nov. 14 at the New Bedford Historical Society's "Cotton Club" benefit.

Leena needs a home! She is an approx. 3 year old smooth coat Border Collie mix that absolutely adores everyone and everything.

Q: Dear Jack, where was Crystal Palace located on Farish Street? Thanks. - Victoria Perkins of Jackson A: Crystal Palace was located in the historic Farish Street district.

It's hard to know where to begin with San Francisco-based trombonist Wayne Wallace .

Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson . By Wil Haygood. Knopf; 464 pages; $27.95 . Buy from Amazon.com OSTENSIBLY "Sweet Thunder" is the life of Sugar Ray Robinson, the middleweight regarded by many knowledgeable boxing fans as the greatest fighter, pound-for-pound, of all time.

Now inscribed in the history books, the fifth Pittsfield CityJazz Festival will be remembered as the most engaging and successful of this series of annual events.

New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is the featured performer for Southern University College of Business Gala on the Bluff.

NEW ORLEANS On Thursday, October 15th New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is the featured performer for the opening night of the historic Polk Theatre's Best Music Venues series.

Dir. Sidney Lumet . This Motown remake of The Wizard of Oz turned out an uneven affair.

Vocalist Lynn Henderson will perform a program of timeless blues, jazz and Broadway songs, accompanied by pianist Hank Milligan, on Sunday in Danbury.

New vehicle targets speeders Speeders beware: Today marks the first day Santa Fe police will deploy a new sport utility vehicle that will issue speeding tickets by mail.

FAMOUS people have made a habit of coming to the rescue of impressionist Faith Brown... Classic Northern comedienne Hilda Baker helped to launch her career after a "wardrobe malfunction" while she was on stage as a singer; American diva Lena Horne gave her a break on the Cannon and Ball show by walking out in a huff a ' and Margaret Thatcher, no ...

Montgomery's Black Film Festival made its debut in 2003 with one screening of one film.

10, 2007 Journalism has suffered a great loss. Ed Bradley died of complications from leukemia this morning at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Lena Horne was a lot stranger than her fabled beauty showed. In 1969, at the age of fifty-two, she released "Watch What Happens," an album recorded with the late, great Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo, which includes the oddest, most abstract version of the Beatles tune "Rocky Raccoon" you might ever hear: it is terse, dismissive, filled with ...

In the 1940s, the press bestowed several condescending sobriquets on Lena Horne: "sepian songstress," "beauteous bronze," "Chocolate Cream Chanteuse." She was introduced to nightclub audiences as "Miss Lena Horne." At the age of 34 in 1952, Horne referred to herself as a "dried-up old broad," a term she'd use for the next five decades before ...

In the 1940s, the press bestowed several condescending sobriquets on Lena Horne: "sepian songstress," "beauteous bronze," "Chocolate Cream Chanteuse." She was introduced to nightclub audiences as "Miss Lena Horne." At the age of 34 in 1952, Horne referred to herself as a "dried-up old broad," a term she'd use for the next five decades before ...

In the 1940s, the press bestowed several condescending sobriquets on Lena Horne: "sepian songstress," "beauteous bronze," "Chocolate Cream Chanteuse." She was introduced to nightclub audiences as "Miss Lena Horne." At the age of 34 in 1952, Horne referred to herself as a "dried-up old broad," a term she'd use for the next five decades before ...

In the 1940s, the press bestowed several condescending sobriquets on Lena Horne: "sepian songstress," "beauteous bronze," "Chocolate Cream Chanteuse." She was introduced to nightclub audiences as "Miss Lena Horne." At the age of 34 in 1952, Horne referred to herself as a "dried-up old broad," a term she'd use for the next five decades before ...

August 09, 2009, 6:23 AM / "Stormy Weather's" James Gavin had an interview with Lena Horne that he describes in the introduction to this book.