Harrison Ridley Jr.

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Harrison Ridley Jr. is one Philadelphia's best known Jazz specialists. Professor Harrison Ridley Jr.'s personal collection of Jazz recordings is considered the one of the finest assembled. These albums are used in his history courses at Temple University and on the air. He has a Sunday night radio show on WRTI (90.1FM) entitled The Historical Approach to the Positive Music. Frequently listeners are exposed to recordings that they had not heard before, or even were not known to have existed. He frequently lectures on the histories of Jazz, African-American music, and big bop, as well as on urban studies and on the well-known jazz figures of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis and many, many others. Harrison has been dubbed "a walking encyclopedia of jazz". He is in great demand on radio and television shows. He is a consultant for the Library of Congress. He is active with Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and the Performing Arts.

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