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It's Take Two For Latin Jazz And Salsa Festival
"The Ray González Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival," a rousing success in its debut last summer, presents all-star regional and international musicians Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. at Hartford's Mortensen Riverfront Plaza. Last summer several thousand...Tags: Bushnell Park, Dancing, Dance, Tito Puente, Migration
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Drummer alongside jazz greats
New York Times News ServiceBobby Durham, a drummer whose precise, understated style made him much sought after as a sideman by such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, died Monday in Genoa, Italy. He was 71 and had homes near Genoa and...Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Benny Carter, Tommy Flanagan
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Cultural events that shaped '68
LITERATURE "Myra Breckinridge" by Gore Vidal. The clever novel (disguised as a diary) initially derided as pornography ends up making eloquent sport of sex and gender. Also vital to 1968 and beyond: "Soul on Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver. An angry, powerful...Tags: Dancing, Frederick Ashton, Stanley Kubrick, Gore Vidal, Dance
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Bobby Durham, 71, drummer who played with jazz greats
The New York TimesBobby Durham, a drummer whose precise, understated style made him much sought after as a sideman by jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, died Monday in Genoa, Italy. He was 71 and had homes near Genoa and...Tags: Shirley, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Benny Carter
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Low-profile, big-résumé jazz pianist
New York Times News ServiceNEW YORK—Ronnie Mathews, a jazz pianist whose recorded output as a leader was sparse but whose résumé as a sideman with stars of jazz was substantial, died Saturday in Brooklyn. He was 72. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his daughter,...Tags: Spike Lee, Thelonious Monk, Jazz Music, Music Industry, Dexter Gordon
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Ella, In Brief
- Born: 1917, Newport News, Va. Died in 1996. - Married twice: to Benny Kornegay (annulled after 2 years) and bass player Ray Brown. They adopted a child of sister Frances, Ray Brown Jr. - Singer for Chick Webb Orchestra in '30s. - A swinging 1938...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Heart Disease, Cole Porter, Count Basie
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This July 4th weekend, celebrate your right to free jazz
Chicago Tribune criticThe Independence Day weekend may be synonymous with American music, but in Chicago that doesn't necessarily mean marches by John Philip Sousa (glorious though they are). Free jazz, hard-core bebop, American popular song—that's how Chicago marks the...Tags: Popular Music, Green Mill, Country Music, Barbara Cook, Checkerboard Lounge
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PASSINGS
Ronnie Mathews Jazz pianist was a prolific sideman Ronnie Mathews, 72, a jazz pianist best known for his supporting roles in bands led by saxophonist Johnny Griffin and, later, drummer T.S. Monk, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...Tags: Long Island University, Death and Dying, Dexter Gordon
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The List: Music
Critic's Preview Ann Powers Times Pop Music Critic Outernational Tour The Washington, D.C.-based outfit Thievery Corporation ushers in a new era of diplomacy by curating this fine international bill, whose local stop features Brazilians Bebel Gilberto...Tags: Chick Hearn, Abe Vigoda, Popular Music, John Coltrane, Robert Plant
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Radio
TIPS FOR TODAY 6-9 a.m. -- Swingin' Years: Interview (from 1964) with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie (8:10-8:25 a.m.); "Bandstand Jamboree," with Glenn Miller (1939), Stan Kenton (1941) and Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald (1966) (8:30-9 a.m.), KKJZ-FM (88....Tags: Father's Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, George Bush
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