The name John McLellan might be unfamiliar to many readers of this blog. That’s understandable; it’s been almost 60...
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Apr 20, 1959: Lady Day’s Last Visit
Billie Holiday opened her last engagement in Boston on April 20, 1959, at Storyville. For Holiday, who had not worked...
Feb 22, 1960: Held Over! Herman Chittison at the Mayfair Lounge
Herman Chittison, a stride-school pianist who played a gorgeous melody, spent close to two years in Boston in 1959-61....
January 1958: Life Is a Many Splendored Gig for Herb Pomeroy
In late January 1958, after what seemed like an interminable wait, Roulette Records released Life Is a Many Splendored...
August 21, 1959: Starts Today! The Boston Jazz Festival
Years before aging rockers staged concerts at Fenway Park, the venerable stadium hosted the first Boston Jazz...
June 9, 1954: Jazz Night Born at the Boston Arts Festival
Jazz Night was first included as part of the program during the Third Boston Arts Festival, in 1954. Jazz happily took...
May 5, 1958: The Jazz Scene Debuts on Boston TV
On May 5, 1958, jazz came to commercial television in Boston as The Jazz Scene launched on station WHDH, hosted by...
Apr 7: The Jazz Scene of John McLellan
John McLellan, Boston’s one-man jazz media machine in the 1950s, was born in Shanghai, China, on April 7, 1926. For...