Upper Darby School District alum Immanuel Wilkins’ Omega has captured the #1 ranking for the Best Jazz Albums of 2020 by the New York Times. This debut record on the prestigious Blue Note Record label has been described by the New York Times as “… ten compositions that move with such grace, there’s no time…
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Todd Rundgren Nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Class of 2020!
The pride of Upper Darby, Todd Rundgren, is among this year’s nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2020 class. Rundgren graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1966. For the “Fan Ballot” you may vote once a day through January 10, 2020 and choose up to five nominees per ballot. The top…
Royalty coming to the big screen
If you asked young Greg Lingo back in the day growing up on Beverly Boulevard in Upper Darby, what he would want to do when he grew up, he probably would have told you, a career in engineering? Football? Baseball perhaps? All feasable. But a screen-writer and movie producer? Even he may have told you…
From Classroom to Bandstand: Immanuel Wilkins Speaks
Upper Darby Alumnus and Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins is a young Juilliard student making deep and meaningful strides in New York’s jazz community.