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Wynton Marsalis' 'Blood on the Fields' is a three-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio composed by Marsalis, premiered on April 1, 1994 at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hal and released in 1995 by Columbia

This day (August 8, 1975), in Gary, Indiana, died Julian Cannonball Adderley, a jazz alto saxophonist.

Cannonball Adderley's 'Nippon Soul' is a live album recorded on July 9, 14 and 15, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef and Joe Zawinul and released in 1964 by Riverside.

This day (May 10, 1989), in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, died Woody Shaw, an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.

Sandra Nkake, Meshell Ndegeocello, Laura Mvula, Natalie Cole, Crystal Monee Hall, Lianne La Havas, Ria Del Mar, Ester Rada, Lisa Simone, Ahs, Emeli Sande, Brigitte Wickens