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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 - May 24, 1974) was a famous jazz pianist and composer, widely considered one of the most influential American musicians in history. (Photo AP)
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 - May 24, 1974) was a famous jazz pianist and composer, widely considered one of the most influential American musicians in history. (Photo AP)
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'Anatomy of a Murder,' 'A Man Escaped': crime and punishment
Rather than concentrate on the execution of the crime, this week’s DVDs focus on what comes afterward: first the trial, then, for the unlucky, time behind bars. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including best picture, 1959’s “...
Tags: Academy Awards, James Stewart, Entertainment Events, George C. Scott, Physiology
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Classical music's spring brings festivals and much more
Spring is, as always, a season for festivals. The big one in Los Angeles this year is the ongoing celebration of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, initiated by Los Angeles Opera. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's weeklong Brooklyn Festival in...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Festive Events, Jean Nouvel, Philip Glass
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New York Fashion Week fall 2013: Kimberly Ovitz
NEW YORK -- Kimberly Ovitz, the daughter of Hollywood power player Michael Ovitz, showed her fall-winter 2013 collection Thursday afternoon at New York Fashion Week. The setting was the now-vacant Cafe Rouge, site of historic performances by such jazz...
Tags: Fashion Shows, Entertainment, Tory Burch, Entertainment Events, Count Basie
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Hal Schaefer dies at 87; musician known for Marilyn Monroe liaison
"The Real Reason for Marilyn Monroe's Divorce from Joe DiMaggio" read the headline on a 1955 Confidential magazine article that exposed a bumbling ambush involving the famous ballplayer and Frank Sinatra. The unlikely duo allegedly had tried to catch...
Tags: Entertainment, Joe DiMaggio, Jane Russell, Music Industry, Mitzi Gaynor
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Appreciation: Pianist Dave Brubeck's gift for timing endures
When thinking about Dave Brubeck, you can't help but also consider time, and not just how much of it fans received from the prolific jazz pianist up to his death Wednesday at age 91. A titan of West Coast jazz, Brubeck was linked with California for...
Tags: Ornette Coleman, Entertainment, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Charles Mingus, Jazz (genre)
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Maria Cole dies at 89; singer was widow of Nat King Cole
Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist for Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s, has died. She was 89. Cole died Tuesday at a hospice in...
Tags: Entertainment, Unforgettable (tv program), Boca Raton, Ed Sullivan, Tuskegee Airmen
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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: Entertainment, Stan Getz, Music Industry, Django Reinhardt, Science and Technology
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Dave Brubeck dies at 91; jazz legend
In the strait-laced Eisenhower 1950s, Dave Brubeck seemed, on one hand, deeply conventional. He didn't drink, smoke or take drugs. He favored expressions like "baloney!" and "you bet" over ruder alternatives. He had a prodigious work ethic that had been...
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Jazz great Dave Brubeck dies at 91
The jazz artist Dave Brubeck died Wednesday at 91, according to his manager, Russell Gloyd. He died of cardiac arrest one day short of his 92nd birthday in Norwalk, Conn. The pianist and arranger, born in Concord, Calif., was one of jazz's first pop...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Popular Music (genre), Jazz (genre), Dave Brubeck
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Selma, Ala.: Crossing a bridge into civil rights history
I like to walk bridges. I've crossed the obvious: The Brooklyn Bridge, with its panorama of Manhattan, makes your heart soar. And I've strolled the obscure, including the Duke Ellington Bridge over Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek. (In a world that generally...Tags: Civil Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice and Rights, Brooklyn Bridge, Riots
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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: Entertainment, Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Arts and Culture, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Rhythm + Blue
LA Times MagazineOld friends Joseph Wambaugh and Michael Connelly talk cops, conflict and the eternal mystery that is Los Angeles...
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