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Weekend jazz picks: The Bad Plus, 'Feed the Blue Whale' and more
Culture MonsterThursday-Friday In 10 years of existence, the Bad Plus has somehow become easy to take for granted. Since breaking out with "These Are the Vistas" back in 2003, the group has specialized in a tough-to-categorize and tougher-to-resist brand of acrobatic...... -
Art review: Stop. Move. at Blum & Poe
Culture MonsterWilliam Kentridge wasnât the first artist (by nearly a century) to work in animation, but his poignant, politically-charged, hand-drawn stop-motion films opened eyes wide to the mediumâs potential when they began to be shown in the early '90s. In... -
Bela Fleck on taking holiday music to new places
Pop & HissMusicians who explore the fringes of music as we know it often seem to operate in a parallel dimension with few points of reference for the average music fan. This historically has been true in jazz, where such innovators as...... -
Ticket Replay: Obama plays the technology dunce card again
Top of the TicketBarack Obama claims during a commencement speech that he doesn't know how to work iPods, iPads, Xboxes or PlayStations.... -
'Beatles in Mono' CD box set: a lesson in collecting
Pop & HissJudging the market for big-ticket music box sets continues to be at least as much art as it is science. Record company executives I spoke to recently said that even though the Internet has given labels unprecedented ability to target...... -
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: All Stars, University of Miami, Sports, Death, Cy Young
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Guru dies at 43; influential rapper
Associated PressGuru, the influential rapper known for his conscious and intellectual themes, his monotone delivery, and his combination of jazz sounds with hip-hop beats, has died after battling cancer, collaborators said. He was 43. The world has lost "one of the best...Tags: Gang Activity, Jamiroquai (music group), The Associated Press, Charlie Parker, Macy Gray
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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: Entertainment, Korean War (1950-1953), Theater, Ray Brown, Death
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Obama plays the technology dunce card again
Top of the TicketBarack Obama claimed during a Hampton University commencement speech that he doesn't know how to work iPods, iPads, Xboxes or PlayStations.... -
Jim Marshall dies at 74; iconic photographer shot music greats
Jim Marshall, celebrated in music circles for his iconic, attitude-laced images of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones and other '60s rock luminaries as well as equally revered portraits of Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and...Tags: Popular Music (genre), James Marshall, Newspaper and Magazine, Festive Events, Family
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'Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong' by Terry Teachout
In 1947, jazz great Louis Armstrong got himself a new gadget -- a tape recorder, fresh out on the consumer market. It was a big, boxy machine that he set up in concert halls and jazz joints to record his six-piece All Stars so he could listen to each show...Tags: Entertainment, Hotels and Accommodations, Biography (genre), Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie
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Roy DeCarava dies at 89; art photographer depicted the African American experience
Roy DeCarava, an art photographer whose pictures of everyday life in Harlem helped clarify the African American experience for a wider audience, has died. He was 89.
He died Tuesday in New York City, his daughter Wendy DeCarava said. The cause was not...Tags: Entertainment, Sports Illustrated, Museum of Modern Art, Radio, Demonstration
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