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Monday's TV Highlights: 'Gene Simmons Family Jewels' on A&E
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies...... -
Influences: Jazz composer and bass player Stanley Clarke
Culture MonsterJazz composer and bass player Stanley Clarke shares his musical influences... -
Herman Leonard dies at 87; photographer chronicled mid-century jazz scene
Herman Leonard, a photographer best known for his iconic images of such jazz greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, has died. He was 87.
Leonard died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a family spokeswoman said. No...Tags: Art Tatum, Dining and Drinking, U.S. Army, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie
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PASSINGS: William Coblentz, Bent Larsen, Carlton Coleman, Juan Mari Bras, Hadley Caliman
William Coblentz
Former University of California regent
William Coblentz, 88, an attorney and former University of California regent who fought against South Africa's apartheid policies and upheld the right of communist philosopher Angela Davis to teach...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Bobby Fischer, Chess Playing, Disc Jockeys, Diabetes
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Are you a 'jazz nerd'? Jason Marsalis revisits and clarifies the term
Pop & HissIn the wake of causing a minor firestorm in the online jazz community last month with a playful video decrying the influence of "jazz nerds," drummer Jason Marsalis e-mailed me a clarification this morning that both expands on the definition,...... -
PASSINGS: Mike Zwerin, Mike Cuellar
Mike Zwerin
Trombonist, jazz critic
Mike Zwerin, 79, a trombonist who got his break jamming with Miles Davis and later became the Paris-based jazz critic for the International Herald Tribune, died Friday in a Paris hospital after a long illness, his...Tags: Jim Palmer, Chicago White Sox, Death, Maynard Ferguson, Awards and Prizes
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Ed Thigpen dies at 79; jazz drummer
Jazz drummer Ed Thigpen, who often was described as "Mr. Taste" for his sensitive accompaniment of instrumentalists and singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell and Billy Taylor, died Wednesday at Hvidovre Hospital in Copenhagen. He was...Tags: Ray Brown, U.S. Army, Copenhagen (Denmark), Music Theater, Death
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'Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963' by Kevin Starr
With the publication of "Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963," Kevin Starr -- now university professor and professor of history at USC and state librarian of California emeritus -- has completed his transformation from the state'...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Cultural Development, History, Heroism, Civil Rights
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Ron Carter Trio plays Yale University's Sprague Hall in New Haven on March 23
One of the best jazz re-issues from last year was Columbia/Legacy's Live in Europe 1967, a 3-CD/DVD package that captured Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet — Davis, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and...Tags: Education, Yale University, Ron Carter Trio (music group), Lena Horne, Sprague
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Beloved jazz pianist Jodie Christian had exceptional ear for harmony
Chicago pianist Jodie Christian accompanied the greatest artists in jazz, from Stan Getz to Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins to Benny Carter, Gene Ammons to Roscoe Mitchell.
In a career that spanned more than 60 years, Christian also co-founded the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Music Theater, Artists, Millennium Park, Fine Artists
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Thousands of famed photos ruined
Tribune arts criticThey rank among the world's most iconic images of jazz: Louis Armstrong lost in a reverie; Duke Ellington bathed in a beam of white light; Ella Fitzgerald caught up in a song, a bead of sweat rolling down her cheek. Stored for more than a decade in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Gaming, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Car Safety Tips and Advice, Duke Ellington
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A sweet mystery
NEW YORK -- Think of Norah Jones as the anti-Mariah. In an age of pop divas, Jones sings with absorbing intimacy and seems refreshingly unaffected by the hoopla around her. On the day her debut album picked up eight Grammy nominations, the petite,...Tags: Ray Charles, Dining and Drinking, Maria Callas, Music Theater, Booker T. Washington
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