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Jazz at JCSU

Thomas Hanchett, Historian-in-Residence
Program Date / Time: 
03/07/2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Program Location: 
Beatties Ford Road

Internationally renowned jazz violinist Stuff Smith got his start with a scholarship to Charlotte's Johnson C. Smith University in the 1920s. Dr. Tom Hanchett, Historian-in-Residence with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, shares new reseearch on the swing-era music scene here - including connections to Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat "King" Cole, and more.