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But you just recently worked with Javon Jackson from the Jazz Messengers on a project, "The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni," where you present sacred or gospel hymns and jazz. What was the ...

Saxophonist Javon Jackson has been playing professionally for decades, starting in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1987. His newest albums include the collaboration “Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies,” ...

(WDBJ) - Virginia Tech professor and acclaimed poet Nikki ... Giovanni refused to let a third bout interrupt her art. Just ...

Nikki Giovanni ... with saxophonist Javon Jackson for an event at the Louis Armstrong House in Queens. Across more than five decades and three dozen books, Ms. Giovanni wrote poetry and prose ...