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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...... -
Album review: Joe Lovano Us Five's 'Bird Songs'
Culture MonsterGiven its occasional tendency to revel in its rich past, you could argue that jazz needs another album dedicated to one of its titans about as much as it needs another 19-hour documentary series. But leave it to restless tenor...... -
James Moody dies at 85; jazz saxophonist and flutist
![James Moody, a <a href="http://www.jamesmoody.com/">jazz saxophonist and flutist</a> whose improvised solo on a recording of the song "I'm in the Mood for Love" became a jazz classic, died Thursday in San Diego, where he had lived in recent years. He was 85 and had pancreatic cancer.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58190791-09213016-187105.jpg "James Moody, a <a href="http://www.jamesmoody.com/\">jazz saxophonist and flutist</a> whose improvised solo on a recording of the song \"I'm in the Mood for Love\" became a jazz classic, died Thursday in San Diego, where he had lived in recent years. He was 85 and had pancreatic cancer.")
James Moody, a jazz saxophonist and flutist whose improvised solo on a recording of the song "I'm in the Mood for Love" became a jazz classic, died Thursday in San Diego, where he had lived in recent years. He was 85 and had pancreatic cancer.
His...Tags: Amy Winehouse, Diseases and Illnesses, Bill Cosby, New York City, Walt Disney
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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: Amy Winehouse, History, Timbaland, Black Eyed Peas (music group), Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Buddy Collette dies at 89; L.A. jazz saxophone player, bandleader
Buddy Collette, a Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist, flautist, bandleader and educator who played important roles in Los Angeles jazz as a musician and an advocate for the rights of African American musicians, has died. He was 89.
Collette died Sunday at...Tags: Frank Morgan, Los Angeles, New York, Charles Mingus, Recording Studios
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She Nails The Marilyn Role Right Down To The Mole
Fox 61Rub your eyes and pinch yourself all you want; you'll still swear that you're in the presence of Marilyn Monroe herself. "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" is playing at the Ivoryton Playhouse, and you can color this writer convinced. "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" is...Tags: John F. Kennedy, James Dean, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe
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Live review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Pop & HissIf mainstream jazz has what could be considered an ambassador in 2009, it's Wynton Marsalis. A member of jazz royalty practically from the moment he could hold a horn, Marsalis rolled into the sprawling Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on...... -
Jazz pianist's estate makes musical gifts to UC Berkeley
L.A. NOWMore than twenty-six years after his death, gifts to UC Berkeley from the estate of jazz pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines will help ensure that the music plays on. Hines, who lived in Oakland and once lectured on the Berkeley campus,...... -
In Memory of: A guide to 10 of Guru's greatest moments
Pop & HissA Tribe Called Quest garnered the most critical raves and Wu-Tang Clan swung the hardcore hip-hop pendulum back from the West Coast, but no group defined the sound of '90s New York City rap like Gang Starr. Even 21 years...... -
Jack Nimitz dies at 79; baritone sax player
Times Staff ReportsJack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group "Supersax," died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City. He was 79. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1930, Nimitz...Tags: Woody Herman, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Music Industry
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Edward V. Hanrahan Ex-Illinois prosecutor Edward V. Hanrahan, 88, a former Cook County state's attorney in Illinois whose political career was ruined when Chicago police assigned to his office killed two members of the Black Panther Party in 1969,...Tags: Lawyers, Texas, Chicago Tribune, New York, Death
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