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Parking meters: In the Dec. 6 LATExtra section, an article about a Los Angeles City Council vote upholding a policy making it illegal to park in spaces with broken meters said that tickets issued at non-working meters generate about $5 million a year in...Tags: Debra Paget, Celebrities, Angus T. Jones, Dolores Hart, Two and a Half Men (tv program)
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Talking with Al Jarreau: Jazz legend looks back -- and forward -- at career
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIn many ways, jazz singer Al Jarreau has found his future by looking back. The first piece of evidence is Jarreau’s most recent album, “Al Jarreau and The Metropole Orkest Live” released in June. The singer, best known for his...... -
Jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck died Wednesday morning of heart failure after...
Tags: Cardiologists, Heart Failure, Colleges and Universities, NASA, Music
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12/6/2012-Dave Brubeck
I'm a big Dave Brubeck fan. I say am, not was, because his music lives on in my collection. He and Ramsey Lewis turned me on to jazz when I was a teenager with "Take Five" and "The In Crowd" and I've been turned on ever since. Many years ago, Dave...
Tags: Ramsey Lewis, Music, Entertainment, West Hartford
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Jam
Our Town CorrespondentI contemplated how George Martin must have felt while in the recording studio with The Beatles, listening to four beautiful men make beautiful music. Although I wasn’t surrounded by John, Paul, George and Ringo, the intimate space in which I found myself...Tags: Music, The Beatles (music group), Entertainment
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Celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah, through jazz
For those who prefer holiday music that's performed at a high artistic level, this will be a noteworthy weekend – as well as an historic one. Specifically, a Christmas-music tradition in Chicago is coming to an end, while a Hanukkah musical...
Tags: Jazz (genre), Holidays, Religion and Belief, Religious Festivals, Christmas Music (genre)
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City Lights: Brubeck played here right after 9/11
One day in my high school philosophy class, the teacher gave us a list of different methods of expression and asked us to determine which ones constituted language. Among those that ended up in the "no" stack was music, since, we decided, it worked on a...
Tags: The Pentagon, Arts and Culture, Music, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Entertainment
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Movie awards: Unusual joins usual
More cinema awards. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has a reputation for sometimes picking unusual choices. This year, the critics honored "Amour" (picture and female actor Emmanuelle Riva), "The Master" (director P.T. Anderson, actors Joaquin...
Tags: Mad Men (tv program), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie), The Wire (tv program), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Entertainment Events
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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...Tags: Jazz (genre), Theater, Leonard Bernstein, Entertainment Events, Concerts
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Bacon Is Getting Its Own TV Series
The Hartford CourantIt's not like there weren't big things going on in politics this past week, what with the fiscal cliff looming and the state deficit seemingly growing by the minute. Oh, and tea party honcho Jim DeMint leaving the Senate. But sometimes a story that falls...Tags: Heritage Foundation, Allergies, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, France, Butch Cassidy
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Dave Brubeck, Jazz Pianist and Longtime Connecticut Resident, is Dead at 91
Jazz legend Dave Brubeck, perhaps best known for his 1959 album Take Five, which reached the second highest slot on the Billboard Pop Album chart in 1961, died at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn., according to the Chicago Tribune. Tomorrow would have...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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2013 Grammy Award nominees
Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...Tags: Rebecca Pidgeon, Entertainment Events, Bryn Terfel, John Legend, Nero (music group)
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