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Jazz at JCSU
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.