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Johnny Mandel has composed quite a life in music
In 2004, the late jazz and recording session pianist Mike Melvoin spoke about his work. His storied career in the studios included playing organ on "That's Life" for Frank Sinatra and on "Good Vibrations" for the Beach Boys, jazz piano on "Nighthawks at...
Tags: Your Show of Shows (tv program), Frank Sinatra, Tameka Cottle, Science and Technology, Michael Jackson
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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: Heart Failure, Tex Beneke, Music Theater, ABC (tv network), J.J. Johnson
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Did Mickey Cohen really own Slapsy Maxie's nightclub?
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Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBreaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...Tags: Pocahontas, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Dorsey, Amusement and Theme Parks, Glenn Miller
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This time, it's Barbara Morrison's turn for a favor
Sitting in the hall that she operates in Leimert Park on a recent afternoon, Barbara Morrison is uncharacteristically sedentary. She recently lost a leg to diabetes. While she speaks with customary grace and cheer, the jazz vocalist is in a period of...Tags: Ray Charles, Dr. John (music artist), Artists, Barbra Streisand, Dizzy Gillespie
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‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ recap: Tre Down
Show TrackerIt was a sparse, self-conscious scattering of Housewives in the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ last night for the Real Housewives of New Jersey’s live reunion—more like guests at party huddling around the dregs of a bowl of Cheetos than... -
Monster Mash: 9/11 cross angers atheists; Telegraph in trouble
Culture MonsterAn atheist group is suing to remove the famous World Trade Center cross from the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. Britain's Telegraph has been ordered to pay $100,000 over a review it ran on the nonfiction book "Seven Days in the Art... -
The Arts on TV: Sister Wendy; Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett
Culture Monster“Grand Canyon Serenade” 8 p.m. Thursday KVCR: A visual tour of the Grand Canyon is set to classical music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak. “Globe Trekker” 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Saturday KLCS; 9 p.m. Monday KCET: Amsterdam... -
Jane Scott dies at 92; longtime rock critic
Jane Scott was a code breaker for the Navy during World War II. She owned a wind-up Victrola. And the first song she ever loved was from the big band era: a Jimmy Rushing hit for Count Basie called "Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)." So...Tags: The Who (music group), Janis Joplin, Reviews, The Rolling Stones (music group), Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Snooky Young, Jeff Gralnick
Snooky Young
Jazz trumpeter in 'Tonight Show' band
Snooky Young, 92, a jazz trumpeter whose long career included working with big bands led by Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie as well as a lengthy stint with NBC's "Tonight Show" band, died Wednesday...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Politics, 60 Minutes (tv program), Jack Carson, ABC (tv network)
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Bruce Ricker dies at 68; jazz and blues documentarian
Documentary filmmaker Bruce Ricker didn't start out making films.
A native New Yorker who earned a law degree from Brooklyn Law School, he arrived in Kansas City in 1970 as a teaching assistant at the University of Missouri and soon began practicing law....Tags: Movies, Brooklyn (New York City), Tony Bennett, Chicago Sun-Times, Dave Brubeck
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Quincy Jones' long and restless song
It had been a long night — a concert, a reunion with an old friend, a midnight meal — but as the clock ticked past 2 a.m. Quincy Jones sat in a rare state of silence in his estate at the very top of Bel-Air. The man they call Q nodded at the...Tags: Ray Charles, Timbaland, Frank Sinatra, Science and Technology, History
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