Dan Kassell

This article © 2023 Daniel Kassell Watch Jazz Happen. Daniel Kassell is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association, a Live-performance Videographer, and a recognized Jazz Marketer by the Jazz Foundation of America. Write him at JazzManDan@yahoo.com.

Ribbon Cutting Marks Opening for Louis Armstrong Center

Dan Kassell October 27, 2023

Across the street from where Lucille Armstrong bought a home for her traveling husband Louis Daniel Armstrong is a 14,000 square-foot building, the “largest archive

Catherine Russell, Marcus Roberts Celebrate Ellington at Carnegie

Dan Kassell April 28, 2022

For the first time since 2020, now able to return to Carnegie Hall after the long pandemic “intermission,” the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon

Vince Giordano Bio/Doc in October Film Fests

Dan Kassell October 1, 2016

The road-show documentary There’s a Future in the Past: The Man and the Band Who Make the Jazz Age Come Alive captures the syncopated heartbeat

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