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Pop, jazz and hip-hop artists to play Ravinia
Tribune arts criticJazz legends Chick Corea and McCoy Tyner, cabaret divas Barbara Cook and Sylvia McNair and hip-hop performer Wyclef Jean will headline the Ravinia Festival's pop and jazz season, the Highland Park-based organization has announced. Jean's appearance, on...Tags: Lyle Lovett, Rufus Wainwright, Woody Allen, Alison Krauss, Buddy Guy
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Power to the B-boys
Ask any ballet dancer: There's a ritual to putting away a pair of pointe shoes. First, push the soft satin of the heel forward toward the hard, boxy toe. Fold the sides of the shoe over the flattened heel. Then, take the two long ribbons -- used to secure...Tags: Legs, Dining and Drinking, Anglicanism, Christianity, Entertainment
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'I've got to go back home'
Ten days after the United States invaded this Central American country to oust dictator Manuel Noriega, in 1989, a brilliant Panamanian jazz pianist stepped on stage to calm the nation with music -- or at least to try. Several hundred Panamanians had...Tags: Education, Panama City (Panama), Death, Miramar, Culture
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Red Hot With a Blue Note
Times Staff WriterNikita Khrushchev's eloquent 1950s critique of jazz pretty much summed up the status of that "bourgeois" music in the Soviet Union: He remarked that listening to it gave him gas. The early Russian jazz scene is most memorably explained by the night in...Tags: African Americans, St. Louis Blues, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs
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'On the Sunny Side of the Street: Louis Armstrong's Final Chorus'
Special to The TimesTrumpeter Louis Armstrong is universally considered to be the great progenitor of jazz. Stepping out of the collective sound of King Oliver's New Orleans-style ensemble, he established the importance of the soloist, was one of the creators of the notion...Tags: Columbia University, Movies, Documentary (genre), Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong
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Home-grown virtuosos
Tribune arts criticWithout saying a word, teenager Yamile Cruz seats herself at the grand piano, places her slender fingers on the keyboard and, after a brief pause, unleashes a torrent of sound one might expect from a virtuoso twice her age and size. Though the battered,...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Dining and Drinking, Foreign Aid, Music Theater, Education
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A culture with a lost past
A young woman swathed in a luminous green gown twists and turns onstage, as if possessed. As she sways across the proscenium, bending her body in sinuous and hypnotic ways, a small army of percussionists fires off a flurry of backbeats, their tempo...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Music Theater, Defense, Bars and Clubs, Entertainment
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A hot weekend in cold Gotham
Special to The TimesWinter in Manhattan. The Radio City Rockettes have packed in the Christmas spectacular. The ribbons and lights hung by the cash registers with care have been sold at 50% off. The Bronx may still be up, but the mercury is way down. There's a way to...Tags: LaGuardia Airport, Travel, Dining and Drinking, Music Theater, Ted Turner
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Spotlight on Chicago's legendary South Side
Tribune arts criticThe South Side of Chicago holds a sacred place in the evolution of American music, for jazz, blues and gospel blossomed in this part of the city through most of the 20th Century. Why the South Side? Because great waves of African-Americans migrated...Tags: Baptist, Nat King Cole, Dining and Drinking, Gene Ammons, Erroll Garner
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For Robinson, acting is a whole new ballgame
Sun StaffTonight at 8, Frank Robinson makes his national acting debut on "The Cosby Show" on Channel 2 (WMAR-TV) The episode was taped in New York two months ago. Sun reporter Mary Corey spent the afternoon on the set, interviewing and observing the budding...Tags: The Cosby Show (tv program), Baseball, Television, World Series, Cincinnati Reds
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