August 29

On this day in 1920, Charlie "Bird" Parker was born in Kansas City.

Celebrating the late Michael Jackson’s birthday. He would have been 59 today

On this day in 1966, The Beatles played their last concert before a paying audience, at Candlestick Park in SF, CA

Today in 2011, Delta bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards died of congestive heart failure in Chicago, Illinois, at age 96

Today in 2005, 77 year old Fats Domino is rescued from his Ninth Ward home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ was released today in 1986