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Oscar Brown

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Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. [1]

77 relations: Abbey Lincoln, Ace Records (United Kingdom), Activism, African Americans, Afro Blue, Al Wilson (singer), All Blues, Americans, Atlantic Records, Bobby Timmons, Bop Doo-Wopp, Brazil, Candid Records, Chicago, Civil and political rights, Columbia Records, Dat Dere, Dave Garroway, David Johansen, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Desegregation, Dianne Reeves, Duke Pearson, Easy listening, Eddie Jefferson, Englewood Technical Prep Academy, Find a Grave, Fontana Records, Human voice, Illinois, Jazz, Karrin Allyson, Lawyer, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), Lizz Wright, Luiz Henrique Rosa, Maggie Brown (singer), Mahalia Jackson, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Mod (subculture), Mongo Santamaría, Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes to Washington, Muhammad Ali, Nat Adderley, Nat Hentoff, Nina Simone, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Northern soul, Oscar Brown Sr., ..., Osteomyelitis, Playwright, Poet, Quincy Jones, Ralph Burns, RCA Records, Real estate broker, Satan, Singing, Sivuca, Songwriter, State legislature (United States), Steve Allen, Stony Island (film), The Manhattan Transfer, The Snake (song), Today (U.S. TV program), Tonight Starring Steve Allen, United States, United States Congress, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vocalese, Watermelon Man (composition), WDCB, We Insist!, Work Song (Nat Adderley album), Wynton Kelly. Expand index (27 more) »

Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions.

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Ace Records (United Kingdom)

Ace Records Ltd. was started in 1978.

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Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Afro Blue

"Afro Blue" is a jazz standard composed by Mongo Santamaría, perhaps best known in its arrangement by John Coltrane.

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Al Wilson (singer)

Allen LaMar "Al" Wilson (June 19, 1939 – April 21, 2008).

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All Blues

"All Blues" is a jazz composition by Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 album Kind of Blue.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Bobby Timmons

Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons (December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Bop Doo-Wopp

Bop Doo-Wopp is the eighth studio album by The Manhattan Transfer, released in 1984 on the Atlantic Records label.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Candid Records

Candid Records is a record label specialising in jazz, now based in the United Kingdom.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Dat Dere

"Dat Dere" is a jazz song written by Bobby Timmons and first recorded in 1960.

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Dave Garroway

David Cunningham "Dave" Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was an American television personality.

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David Johansen

David Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled David Jo Hansen; born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor.

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer.

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Desegregation

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.

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Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves (Detroit, October 23, 1956) is a GRAMMY-winning jazz singer.

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Duke Pearson

Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson, Jr (August 17, 1932 – August 4, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Eddie Jefferson

Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was a jazz vocalist and lyricist.

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Englewood Technical Prep Academy

Englewood Technical Prep Academy High School or sometimes referred to as simply Englewood High School, was a public 4-year high school located in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, United States.

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Find a Grave

Find A Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records.

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Fontana Records

Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Karrin Allyson

Karrin Allyson (pronounced KAH-rin; born Karrin Allyson Schoonover on July 27, 1963 in Great Bend, Kansas) is an American jazz vocalist.

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Lawyer

A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, or solicitor, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary.

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Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)

Lincoln University (LU) is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university.

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Lizz Wright

Lizz Wright (born January 22, 1980) is an American jazz and gospel singer.

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Luiz Henrique Rosa

Luiz Henrique Rosa (November 25, 1938 – July 9, 1985), also known as Luiz Henrique, was a Brazilian musician and soccer player.

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Maggie Brown (singer)

Maggie Brown is a vocalist, spoken word artist, actress, and music producer.

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Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer.

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Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Mod (subculture)

Mod is a subculture that began in London in 1958 and spread throughout Great Britain and elsewhere, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries, and continues today on a smaller scale.

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Mongo Santamaría

Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.

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Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes to Washington

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.

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Nat Adderley

Nat Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Nat Hentoff

Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media.

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; Northern German Broadcasting) is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg.

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Northern soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England in the late 1960s from the British mod scene, based on a particular style of black American soul music, especially in the mid-1960s, with a heavy beat and fast tempo.

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Oscar Brown Sr.

Oscar Brown Sr. was a prominent Chicago businessman, lawyer and community activist.

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Osteomyelitis

Osteomyelitis (OM) is an infection of bone.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Ralph Burns

Ralph Jose P. Burns (29 June 1922 – 21 November 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Real estate broker

A real estate broker or real estate salesperson (often called a real estate agent) is a person who acts as an intermediary between sellers & buyers of real estate/real property.

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Satan

Satan is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sivuca

Severino Dias de Oliveira (26 May 1930 in Itabaiana, Brazil – 14 December 2006 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil), popularly known as Sivuca, was a Brazilian accordionist and guitarist.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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State legislature (United States)

A state legislature in the United States is the legislative body of any of the 50 U.S. states.

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Steve Allen

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism.

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Stony Island (film)

Stony Island is a 1978 film directed by Andrew Davis.

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The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is a jazz vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a capella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.

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The Snake (song)

"The Snake" is a song and single released by American singer Al Wilson in 1968, and written by civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963.

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Today (U.S. TV program)

Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC.

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Tonight Starring Steve Allen

Tonight Starring Steve Allen is an American talk show hosted by Steve Allen.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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Vocalese

Vocalese is a style or musical genre of jazz singing wherein words are sung note for note to melodies that were originally created by a soloist's improvisation.

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Watermelon Man (composition)

"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock, first released on his debut album, Takin' Off (1962).

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WDCB

WDCB (90.9 FM) is a public radio station broadcasting a jazz format, serving primarily the Chicago area, and beyond through its streaming audio.

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We Insist!

We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960.

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Work Song (Nat Adderley album)

Work Song is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley, recorded in January 1960 and released on the Riverside label.

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Wynton Kelly

Wynton Charles Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) was a Jamaican American jazz pianist and composer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brown

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