Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan…. …Though most often thought of as a jazz space — among the eminences heard there over the...
I've been working on some thoughts regarding a book I've been reading, but those have been temporarily supplanted by jazz; which is appropriate since jazz has a way of wiggling in. Gabriel listens to it just about every day. I watched him last Friday night when Robin and I took him to hear a trio we know and love, the way he presses himself into the music's loops and curls, even the sharp ends. He...
Art D'Lugoff, the owner of The Village Gate nightclub located in the heart of Greenwich Village for over 40 years, died on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in Riverdale, N.Y. D'Lugoff was 85 years old. After producing concerts around New York...
Johnny MercerClint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me TCM 2009 Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} (Bird, 1988), during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist {{Thelonious Monk...
In the first paragraph of Part 3 of this series, it was not by random choice that I included Red Mitchell's name in the short list of important bassists who emerged in the 1940s. He discovered ways of playing the...
Louis Vuitton fashion house has replaced Madonna as it's main model . The new face of Louis Vuitton will now be Dutch supermodel Lara Stone. This is definitely a mystery. Louis Vuitton fashion brand has replaced Madonna as it's model...
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, by Robin D. G. Kelly, was published in the fall of 2009. It arrived surrounded by buzz that, since the author had unprecedented access to the Monk family, he could finally answer those lingering questions about his "mental illness"--as in, was Thelonious schizophrenic, bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, or something else...
In the days when I was learning to truly listen, Red Kelly gave me a piece of valuable advice. He told me to close my eyes and in my mind isolate and concentrate on the bass player. He said that...
Photographer Roy DeCarava. Photo by triggahappy76 / Flickr.Roy DeCarava : 1919-2009Photographer Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his 60-year career to capturing images of African Americans. His subjects ranged from daily life in his hometown of Harlem to the Civil Rights movement, but his most noted work featured photographs of jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk,
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Robin D.G. Kelley's massive new biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is first and foremost a demystification of the composer's life. Kelley, who holds a chair at the University of Southern California, spent 14 years researching the book, and it's the most comprehensive biography yet of its subject.
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