Left of Black S7:E20: #BlackGirlMagic and the Genius of Duke Ellington

Left of Black S7:E20: #BlackGirlMagic and the Genius of Duke Ellington
On this episode of Left of Black, classically trained vocalist Candice Hoyes joins host Mark Anthony Neal and a live audience at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke, for a discussion of the continued relevance of the music of Duke Ellington and Black Musical traditions. A graduate of Harvard and a veteran of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Hoyes latest recording On a Turquoise Cloud -- independently released -- is a collection of rare Ellington compositions, written for women singers such as Adelaide Hall, Kay Davis, and Alice Babs.

Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced by Catherine Angst of the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in collaboration with the Center for Arts + Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship (CADCE) and the Duke Council on Race + Ethnicity
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