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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: The New York Times, Sidney Poitier, Celebrities, Music Industry, 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: Music Industry, DVDs, Chet Baker, Tom Waits, Allen Ginsberg
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Chica- chica- boom town
Times Staff WriterTurning my back on the discord of the material world, I have made my way not east but south to a land where redemption is only a samba away. And just hours after touching down, salvation is already at hand. Onstage at Claro Hall, on the outskirts of Rio...Tags: Crimes, Dining and Drinking, Vocal Music (genre), Los Angeles International Airport, John Cleese
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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: Bessie Smith, Dave Brubeck, Dick Foran, Music Industry, Science and Technology
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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: Dave Brubeck, Japan, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Marco Polo
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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: Music Industry, Entertainment, Long Island, Music, John Coltrane
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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: Music Industry, Entertainment, Health, U.S. Department of State, Mose Allison
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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: Physiology, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, Cancer, Smashing Pumpkins (music group)
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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, Music Industry, Big Band (genre), Chet Baker, Entertainment
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Pianist Emery Smith To Close 'Baby Grand' Jazz Series
The Hartford CourantAs one of the last living participants in Hartford's exuberant Golden Age of Jazz after World War II — an era when future giants Horace Silver and Gigi Gryce graced the swinging club scene in the North End — pianist Emery Austin Smith is...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Big Band (genre), Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut)
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The Sunday Conversation: Sergio Mendes
![Grammy winner Sergio Mendes, 70, one of Brazil's most famous exports, kicks off his 50th anniversary in the music business with a new album, "Celebration," compiling a half-century of hits; his first film score, the animated film "Rio"; and a special engagement at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood from Thursday through March 13.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-03/59829561-04173142.jpg "Grammy winner Sergio Mendes, 70, one of Brazil's most famous exports, kicks off his 50th anniversary in the music business with a new album, "Celebration,\" compiling a half-century of hits; his first film score, the animated film \"Rio\"; and a special engagement at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood from Thursday through March 13.")
Grammy winner Sergio Mendes, 70, one of Brazil's most famous exports, kicks off his 50th anniversary in the music business with a new album, "Celebration," compiling a half-century of hits; his first film score, the animated film "Rio"; and a special...Tags: Rio (movie), Music Industry, Entertainment, John Legend, Carnegie Hall
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