‘I learned to become a jazz singer working with him… He gave me freedom. Basically, without actually saying the word, I was allowed to just fly, and isn’t that what jazz is all about?’
Ben Tucker
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A proper jazz sendoff
Ben Tucker probably would have laughed loudest at the stories his family, friends and colleagues told about him during Monday’s memorial service at Lutheran Church of the Ascension. Reuben Tucker […]
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Ben Tucker funeral to affect traffic
Streets and parking will be intermittently impacted downtown on Monday for the funeral services of the late Ben Tucker, police say. Parking on Wright Square will be “reserved for funeral […]
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Ben Tucker services set
The late great jazz legend and Savannah icon Ben Tucker will lie in state Sunday, June 9, from 2 -7 p.m. for public viewing at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of […]
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Ben Tucker killed in crash
Local legend and jazz icon Ben Tucker was killed when a car hit his golf cart on Hutchinson Island yesterday. The 82-year-old was crossing Grand Prize of America Roadway from […]
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Accentuating the positive
Eddie Wilson is a cat who’s been around. By his own account, he’s seen “all of the USA and many different countries” in his varying capacities as a musical director, […]
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Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
Joe Buck There’s a demon in Joe Buck’s head and it wants you dead. Formerly of Th’ Legendary Shackshakers and perhaps best known as the upright bassist in Hank III’s […]
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Teaching kids to ‘feel’ jazz
CONYERS, GA. NATIVE MARCUS PRINTUP was raised on gospel before catching the jazz bug in his late teens. An award-winning trumpeter in college, he was befriended by the masterful jazz […]
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Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
Aquariums, Midtown Dickens At least one track on the debut CD by this low-key, Nashville-based ennui-rock act was written in Savannah (where frontman Martin Schneider’s brother resides), which may explain […]
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Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
The Hellblinki Sextet The creepy, Tim Burton-esque brainchild of former Savannah resident Andrew Benjamin, this dark, theatrical and downright addled “Pirate Cabaret” is a mesmerizing mélange of Bertolt Brecht-ian melodrama, […]
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Jazz Festival Spotlight
THIS 26TH ANNUAL INSTALLMENT of our city’s well-known free music festival (sponsored in large part by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs) continues this week with a schedule […]
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Jazz Fest time again
This year’s 26th Annual installment of our city’s beloved free music festival (sponsored in large part by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs) starts out with a bang, […]