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Review: A fascinating education in 'The Jazz Standards'
-------------------- The Jazz Standards A Guide to the Repertoire Ted Gioia Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95 -------------------- I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...
Tags: Miles Davis, Music, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Dick Foran
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Inspired by nature, horn chairs come in a variety of styles
Furniture has been made from carved and joined pieces of wood for centuries, but in every century there are a few designers who are intrigued by the forms of nature and use them to create furniture. Chairs made of curved horns are one of these furniture...Tags: Charlie Parker, Japan, Count Basie, Textron Incorporated, Dave Brubeck
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Gabriel Alegria's concert: True to his joy
Lehigh Valley MusicNever had an exotic sound felt so familiar. The Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet took its Allentown audience Friday on an exciting journey through the musical vistas of coastal Peru. Its sounds carried the colors of twilight at the ocean shore...... -
Teddy Charles dies at 84; jazz vibraphonist and composer
Teddy Charles, a jazz vibraphonist who performed with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and other bebop-era jazz greats before becoming a charter boat captain in the Caribbean, died Monday at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead on New York's...
Tags: Charlie Parker, Sailing, Miles Davis, Music, Peconic Bay
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Mike Melvoin dies at 74; studio musician, composer
Mike Melvoin, a pianist/composer/arranger whose credits reach from Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys, and who was the first active musician to serve as national president of the Recording Academy, has died. He was 74.
A...Tags: Science, Smashing Pumpkins (music group), Dartmouth College, Helen Reddy, Entertainment
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Joe Byrd, bassist
Joe Byrd, a bassist who was best known for collaborations with his guitarist brother Charlie and who helped introduce bossa nova-inflected jazz to the United States, died March 6 at Anne Arundel Medical Center from injuries suffered in a car accident that...Tags: Peggy Lee, Injuries and Wounds, Drama (genre), U.S. Department of State, Dance
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Bob Brookmeyer dies at 81; jazz trombonist, composer
Bob Brookmeyer, a jazz trombonist, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from cutting-edge performances with Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz to innovative big band compositions and highly regarded classes at the New England...Tags: Music Theater, Count Basie, Music, Entertainment, Manhattan (New York City)
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Paul Motian dies at 80; jazz drummer and composer
Paul Motian, an influential and much-admired jazz drummer who first gained renown in the late 1950s as part of the Bill Evans Trio and later became a composer and the leader of his own groups, has died. He was 80.
Motian died Tuesday at Mount Sinai...Tags: John Coltrane, Music, Manhattan (New York City), Entertainment, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Influences: Jazz composer and bass player Stanley Clarke
Culture MonsterJazz composer and bass player Stanley Clarke shares his musical influences... -
Buddy Holly score card -- Hollywood star: 1; Grammy awards: 0
Pop & HissBuddy Holly got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week, but still has no Grammy Awards. Holly and other pioneering rock and rollers have long been overlooked by Grammy voters.... -
Abbey Lincoln dies at 80; jazz singer, actress, civil rights advocate
Abbey Lincoln, an acclaimed jazz singer, songwriter and actress who evolved from a supper-club singer into a strong voice for civil rights, has died. She was 80.
Lincoln died Saturday in a nursing home in New York, said Evelyn Mason, her niece. No...Tags: Billie Holiday, Music, Sidney Poitier, California, Entertainment
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Retracing Jack Kerouac's rocky road
There are those who return to Jack Kerouac just to get lost in the ride. Not across lonesome America but in the serpentine locomotion of his prose.
It's the music of the page: long blasts of blue-streak narrative that don't yield to periods, semicolons,...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Poetry, DVDs, Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac
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