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Norman Granz

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Ella Fitzgerald, Jailed in Houston for Shooting Dice: Photo of the Day

    Photo by Pete Vazquez/via Houston ChronicleElla: Shooting dice will get you arrested.​Is this a great picture or what? It's the inestimable Ella Fitzgerald sitting forlornly in a Houston jail, arrested for shooting dice in her Music Hall dressing room with -- get this lineup -- Dizzy Gillespi ... More >>

  • Music

    July 11, 2002

    Illinois Jacquet

    Jumpin' at Apollo (Delmark)

  • Music

    November 18, 1999

    One For All

    Sax giant Illinois Jacquet helped desegregate Houston audiences

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    Scat's First Lady

    Anita O'Day gets her due in new boxed set

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