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Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76 NY Times

Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76 NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/arts/music/al-jarreau-singer-who-spanned-jazz-pop-and-rb-worlds-dies-at-76.html
 
Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76
 
By MARGALIT FOXFEB. 12, 2017

 
Al Jarreau in 1986: “I try to be receptive and to be listening, and to not be afraid to try something new.” David Corio
Al Jarreau, a versatile vocalist who sold millions of records and won a string of Grammys for his work in pop and R&B as well as his first love, jazz, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 76.
His death was announced by his manager, Joe Gordon, who said that Mr. Jarreau had been hospitalized for exhaustion two weeks ago. On the advice of his doctors, he had canceled his tour dates and retired from touring.
Mr. Jarreau did not begin a full-time musical career until he was nearly 30, but within a few years he had begun attracting notice for a vocal style that was both instantly appealing and highly unusual. Critics were particularly taken by his improvisational dexterity, in particular his virtuosic ability to produce an array of vocalizations ranging from delicious nonsense to clicks and growls to quasi-instrumental sounds.
Although he made his initial mark in the jazz world, Mr. Jarreau’s style, and his audience, crossed stylistic barriers. His music incorporated elements of pop, soul, gospel, Latin and other genres. It was a mark of his eclecticism that he won six Grammys across three different categories: jazz, pop and R&B. He was also among the performers on a Grammy-winning children’s album, “In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record.”
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If Mr. Jarreau’s highly accessible, intensely personal style defied easy classification, that very accessibility — and, perhaps, the mere fact of his considerable commercial success — left some jazz purists skeptical.

 
Mr. Jarreau performing last year at the 50th Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Anthony Anex/European Pressphoto Agency
Reviewing a concert by Mr. Jarreau at the Savoy in New York in 1981, Stephen Holden of The New York Times encapsulated what many saw as both the pros and the cons of Mr. Jarreau’s singular style:
“Al Jarreau may be the most technically gifted singer working in jazz-fusion today,” Mr. Holden wrote. Of the evening’s performance, however, he continued: “Mr. Jarreau’s concert lacked the emotional range of great jazz. He is such a prodigious talent that the absence of even the slightest blues inflections kept his music from cutting deeply.”
But critics’ reservations never deterred Mr. Jarreau, who prided himself, as he told The Los Angeles Times in 1986, on his “jazz attitude,” which he defined as “the idea of being open to each and every moment as a chance to create something different.”
“I try to be receptive,” he added, “and to be listening, and to not be afraid to try something new.”
Alwin Lopez Jarreau was born in Milwaukee on March 12, 1940, into a musical family. His father, a minister, was a fine singer; his mother played the piano in church. Young Al began singing at 4, harmonizing with his siblings. As a youth he sang in church, as well as with street-corner harmony groups and local jazz bands.
Mr. Jarreau earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1962, and a master’s in vocational rehabilitation from the University of Iowa in 1964. Afterward he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a rehabilitation counselor for people with disabilities.
But Mr. Jarreau found he could not resist the pull of jazz and before long was singing in local nightclubs. By the late ’60s, he had quit his day job and embarked on a nightclub career, first on the West Coast and eventually in New York.
He reached a national audience with the album “We Got By,” released by Warner Bros. in 1975 to critical praise and commercial success.
Though advertised as his debut, it was actually his second album. A decade earlier, Mr. Jarreau had quietly recorded an album, later released on the Bainbridge label under the title “1965.” Though Mr. Jarreau took legal action, without success, to block its belated release in 1982, it is esteemed by jazz connoisseurs today.
Appearances on “Saturday Night Live” and other television shows raised his profile, as did extensive touring. In 1981 he had his biggest hit with the song “We’re in This Love Together,” which reached No. 15 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
 
 
Al Jarreau – We’re In This Love Together (Official Video)
 
 
 
 
 
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Al Jarreau – We’re In This Love Together (Official Video) Video by RHINO
He won his first Grammy in 1978, for best jazz vocal performance, for his album “Look to the Rainbow.” He won his last in 2007, for best traditional R&B vocal performance; the award was shared by Mr. Jarreau, George Benson and Jill Scott for their collaborative performance “God Bless the Child.”
In between, in 1982, Mr. Jarreau earned a Grammy for best pop vocal performance by a male artist for the title track of his album “Breakin’ Away.” That year, he also received the Grammy for best jazz vocal performance by a male artist, for his version of Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” from the same album.
His other Grammys came in 1979 for the album “All Fly Home” (in the jazz category), and in 1993 for the album “Heaven and Earth” (in R&B). A seventh Grammy came in 1981 for “In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record,” a compilation children’s album that featured a range of artists.
Among Mr. Jarreau’s best-known recordings was the theme song for the long-running television series “Moonlighting,” for which he wrote the lyrics to Lee Holdridge’s music. He appeared on Broadway as a replacement in the role of the Teen Angel in the 1994 revival of “Grease.”
Mr. Jarreau’s first marriage, to Phyllis Hall, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, the former Susan Player; a son, Ryan; two brothers, Marshall and Appie; and a sister, Rose Marie Freeman.
Mr. Jarreau canceled a number of concert dates in 2010 after experiencing heart and breathing problems during a European tour. He was hospitalized for 11 days but resumed his touring schedule after his release, and had continued to perform until recently.
Shortly after his 2010 hospitalization, he said in an interview that his health problems had not been as serious as reports suggested, but joked that he appreciated the attention they received in the media because it proved that he was a celebrity. “I figured,” he said, “‘Yeah, maybe I have arrived.’”
 

 
 

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Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76 NY Times

Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76 NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/arts/music/al-jarreau-singer-who-spanned-jazz-pop-and-rb-worlds-dies-at-76.html
 
Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76
 
By MARGALIT FOXFEB. 12, 2017

 
Al Jarreau in 1986: “I try to be receptive and to be listening, and to not be afraid to try something new.” David Corio
Al Jarreau, a versatile vocalist who sold millions of records and won a string of Grammys for his work in pop and R&B as well as his first love, jazz, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 76.
His death was announced by his manager, Joe Gordon, who said that Mr. Jarreau had been hospitalized for exhaustion two weeks ago. On the advice of his doctors, he had canceled his tour dates and retired from touring.
Mr. Jarreau did not begin a full-time musical career until he was nearly 30, but within a few years he had begun attracting notice for a vocal style that was both instantly appealing and highly unusual. Critics were particularly taken by his improvisational dexterity, in particular his virtuosic ability to produce an array of vocalizations ranging from delicious nonsense to clicks and growls to quasi-instrumental sounds.
Although he made his initial mark in the jazz world, Mr. Jarreau’s style, and his audience, crossed stylistic barriers. His music incorporated elements of pop, soul, gospel, Latin and other genres. It was a mark of his eclecticism that he won six Grammys across three different categories: jazz, pop and R&B. He was also among the performers on a Grammy-winning children’s album, “In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record.”
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If Mr. Jarreau’s highly accessible, intensely personal style defied easy classification, that very accessibility — and, perhaps, the mere fact of his considerable commercial success — left some jazz purists skeptical.

 
Mr. Jarreau performing last year at the 50th Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Anthony Anex/European Pressphoto Agency
Reviewing a concert by Mr. Jarreau at the Savoy in New York in 1981, Stephen Holden of The New York Times encapsulated what many saw as both the pros and the cons of Mr. Jarreau’s singular style:
“Al Jarreau may be the most technically gifted singer working in jazz-fusion today,” Mr. Holden wrote. Of the evening’s performance, however, he continued: “Mr. Jarreau’s concert lacked the emotional range of great jazz. He is such a prodigious talent that the absence of even the slightest blues inflections kept his music from cutting deeply.”
But critics’ reservations never deterred Mr. Jarreau, who prided himself, as he told The Los Angeles Times in 1986, on his “jazz attitude,” which he defined as “the idea of being open to each and every moment as a chance to create something different.”
“I try to be receptive,” he added, “and to be listening, and to not be afraid to try something new.”
Alwin Lopez Jarreau was born in Milwaukee on March 12, 1940, into a musical family. His father, a minister, was a fine singer; his mother played the piano in church. Young Al began singing at 4, harmonizing with his siblings. As a youth he sang in church, as well as with street-corner harmony groups and local jazz bands.
Mr. Jarreau earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1962, and a master’s in vocational rehabilitation from the University of Iowa in 1964. Afterward he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a rehabilitation counselor for people with disabilities.
But Mr. Jarreau found he could not resist the pull of jazz and before long was singing in local nightclubs. By the late ’60s, he had quit his day job and embarked on a nightclub career, first on the West Coast and eventually in New York.
He reached a national audience with the album “We Got By,” released by Warner Bros. in 1975 to critical praise and commercial success.
Though advertised as his debut, it was actually his second album. A decade earlier, Mr. Jarreau had quietly recorded an album, later released on the Bainbridge label under the title “1965.” Though Mr. Jarreau took legal action, without success, to block its belated release in 1982, it is esteemed by jazz connoisseurs today.
Appearances on “Saturday Night Live” and other television shows raised his profile, as did extensive touring. In 1981 he had his biggest hit with the song “We’re in This Love Together,” which reached No. 15 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
 
 
Al Jarreau – We’re In This Love Together (Official Video)
 
 
 
 
 
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Al Jarreau – We’re In This Love Together (Official Video) Video by RHINO
He won his first Grammy in 1978, for best jazz vocal performance, for his album “Look to the Rainbow.” He won his last in 2007, for best traditional R&B vocal performance; the award was shared by Mr. Jarreau, George Benson and Jill Scott for their collaborative performance “God Bless the Child.”
In between, in 1982, Mr. Jarreau earned a Grammy for best pop vocal performance by a male artist for the title track of his album “Breakin’ Away.” That year, he also received the Grammy for best jazz vocal performance by a male artist, for his version of Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” from the same album.
His other Grammys came in 1979 for the album “All Fly Home” (in the jazz category), and in 1993 for the album “Heaven and Earth” (in R&B). A seventh Grammy came in 1981 for “In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record,” a compilation children’s album that featured a range of artists.
Among Mr. Jarreau’s best-known recordings was the theme song for the long-running television series “Moonlighting,” for which he wrote the lyrics to Lee Holdridge’s music. He appeared on Broadway as a replacement in the role of the Teen Angel in the 1994 revival of “Grease.”
Mr. Jarreau’s first marriage, to Phyllis Hall, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, the former Susan Player; a son, Ryan; two brothers, Marshall and Appie; and a sister, Rose Marie Freeman.
Mr. Jarreau canceled a number of concert dates in 2010 after experiencing heart and breathing problems during a European tour. He was hospitalized for 11 days but resumed his touring schedule after his release, and had continued to perform until recently.
Shortly after his 2010 hospitalization, he said in an interview that his health problems had not been as serious as reports suggested, but joked that he appreciated the attention they received in the media because it proved that he was a celebrity. “I figured,” he said, “‘Yeah, maybe I have arrived.’”
 

 
 

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Grammy Winners 2017 – The New York Times

Grammy Winners 2017 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/arts/music/grammys-winners-list.html?_r=0
 
Grammy Winners 2017
FEB. 12, 2017
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The complete list of winners:
Record of the Year
“Hello” — Adele
Album of the Year
“25” — Adele (read our review)
Song of the Year
“Hello” — Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele)
New Artist
Chance the Rapper (read our review of “Coloring Book”)
Pop Solo Performance
“Hello” — Adele
Pop Duo/Group Performance:
“Stressed Out” — Twenty One Pilots
Traditional Pop Vocal Album
“Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin” — Willie Nelson
Pop Vocal Album
“25” — Adele
Dance Recording
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“Don’t Let Me Down” — The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya
Dance/Electronic Album
“Skin” — Flume
Contemporary Instrumental Album
“Culcha Vulcha” — Snarky Puppy
Rock Performance
“Blackstar” — David Bowie
Metal Performance
“Dystopia” — Megadeth
Rock Song
“Blackstar” — David Bowie, songwriter (David Bowie)
Rock Album
“Tell Me I’m Pretty” — Cage the Elephant
Alternative Music Album
“Blackstar” — David Bowie
R&B Performance
“Cranes in the Sky” — Solange
Traditional R&B Performance
“Angel” — Lalah Hathaway
R&B Song
“Lake By the Ocean” — Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell) (read our interview)
Urban Contemporary Album
“Lemonade” — Beyoncé
R&B Album
“Lalah Hathaway Live” — Lalah Hathaway
Rap Performance
“No Problem” — Chance the Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
Rap/Sung Performance
“Hotline Bling” — Drake
Rap Song
“Hotline Bling” — Aubrey Graham & Paul Jefferies, songwriters (Drake)
Rap Album
“Coloring Book” — Chance the Rapper
Country Solo Performance
“My Church” — Maren Morris
Country Duo/Group Performance
“Jolene” — Pentatonix featuring Dolly Parton
Country Song
“Humble and Kind” — Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw)
Country Album
“A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” — Sturgill Simpson (read our interview)
New Age Album
“White Sun II” — White Sun
Improvised Jazz Solo
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” — John Scofield, soloist
Jazz Vocal Album
“Take Me to the Alley” — Gregory Porter
Jazz Instrumental Album
“Country for Old Men” — John Scofield
Large Jazz Ensemble Album
“Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom” — Ted Nash Big Band
Latin Jazz Album
“Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac” — Chucho Valdés
Gospel Performance/Song
“God Provides” — Tamela Mann; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
“Thy Will” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family; Bernie Herms, Hillary Scott & Emily Weisband, songwriters
Gospel Album
“Losing My Religion” — Kirk Franklin (read our interview)
Contemporary Christian Music Album
“Love Remains” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family
Roots Gospel Album
“Hymns” — Joey + Rory
Latin Pop Album
“Un Besito Mas” — Jesse & Joy
Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
“iLevitable” — iLe
Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
“Un Azteca En El Azteca, Vol. 1 (En Vivo)” — Vicente Fernández
Tropical Latin Album
“Donde Están?” — Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo
American Roots Performance
“House of Mercy” — Sarah Jarosz
American Roots Song
“Kid Sister” — Vince Gill, songwriter (The Time Jumpers)
Americana Album
“This Is Where I Live” — William Bell
Bluegrass Album
“Coming Home” — O’Connor Band With Mark O’Connor
Traditional Blues Album
“Porcupine Meat” — Bobby Rush
Contemporary Blues Album
“The Last Days of Oakland” — Fantastic Negrito
Folk Album
“Undercurrent” — Sarah Jarosz
Regional Roots Music Album
“E Walea” — Kalani Pe’a
Reggae Album
“Ziggy Marley” — Ziggy Marley
World Music Album
“Sing Me Home” — Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
Children’s Album
“Infinity Plus One” — Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Spoken Word Album
“In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox” — Carol Burnett
Comedy Album
“Talking for Clapping” — Patton Oswalt
Musical Theater Album
“The Color Purple”
Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Miles Ahead” (Miles Davis & Various Artists)
Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” — John Williams, composer
Song Written for Visual Media
“Can’t Stop The Feeling!” — Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Walt Dohrn, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar), Track from: “Trolls”
Instrumental Composition
“Spoken at Midnight” — Ted Nash, composer
Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
“You And I” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)
Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
“Flintstones” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)
Recording Package
“Blackstar” — Jonathan Barnbrook, art director (David Bowie)
Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
“Edith Piaf 1915-2015” — Gérard Lo Monaco, art director (Edith Piaf)
Album Notes
“Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along” — Ken Bloom & Richard Carlin, album notes writers (Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle)
Historical Album
“The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12” (Collector’s Edition), Steve Berkowitz & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Mark Wilder, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan)
Engineered Album, Non-Classical
“Blackstar” — David Bowie, Tom Elmhirst, Kevin Killen & Tony Visconti, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (David Bowie)
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Greg Kurstin
Remixed Recording
“Tearing Me Up” (RAC Remix) — André Allen Anjos, remixer (Bob Moses)
Surround Sound Album
“Dutilleux: Sur Le Même Accord; Les Citations; Mystère De L’instant & Timbres, Espace, Mouvement” — Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, surround mix engineers; Dmitriy Lipay, surround mastering engineer; Dmitriy Lipay, surround producer (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)
Engineered Album, Classical
“Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles” — Mark Donahue & Fred Vogler, engineers (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, LA Opera Chorus & Orchestra)
Producer of the Year, Classical
David Frost
Orchestral Performance
“Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9” — Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Opera Recording
“Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles” — James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus)
Choral Performance
“Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1” — Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir)
Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
“Steve Reich” — Third Coast Percussion
Classical Instrumental Solo
“Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway” — Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony)
Classical Solo Vocal Album
TIE: “Schumann & Berg” — Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist;
and “Shakespeare Songs” — Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker)
Classical Compendium
“Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle” — Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
Contemporary Classical Composition
“Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway” — Michael Daugherty, composer (Zuill Bailey, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)
Music Video
“Formation” — Beyoncé
Music Film
“The Beatles: Eight Days a Week the Touring Years” — Ron Howard, video director; Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Scott Pascucci & Nigel Sinclair, video producers
 

 
 

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Grammy Winners 2017 – The New York Times

Grammy Winners 2017 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/arts/music/grammys-winners-list.html?_r=0
 
Grammy Winners 2017
FEB. 12, 2017
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Matt Sayles/Invision, via Associated Press
 
The complete list of winners:
Record of the Year
“Hello” — Adele
Album of the Year
“25” — Adele (read our review)
Song of the Year
“Hello” — Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele)
New Artist
Chance the Rapper (read our review of “Coloring Book”)
Pop Solo Performance
“Hello” — Adele
Pop Duo/Group Performance:
“Stressed Out” — Twenty One Pilots
Traditional Pop Vocal Album
“Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin” — Willie Nelson
Pop Vocal Album
“25” — Adele
Dance Recording
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“Don’t Let Me Down” — The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya
Dance/Electronic Album
“Skin” — Flume
Contemporary Instrumental Album
“Culcha Vulcha” — Snarky Puppy
Rock Performance
“Blackstar” — David Bowie
Metal Performance
“Dystopia” — Megadeth
Rock Song
“Blackstar” — David Bowie, songwriter (David Bowie)
Rock Album
“Tell Me I’m Pretty” — Cage the Elephant
Alternative Music Album
“Blackstar” — David Bowie
R&B Performance
“Cranes in the Sky” — Solange
Traditional R&B Performance
“Angel” — Lalah Hathaway
R&B Song
“Lake By the Ocean” — Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell) (read our interview)
Urban Contemporary Album
“Lemonade” — Beyoncé
R&B Album
“Lalah Hathaway Live” — Lalah Hathaway
Rap Performance
“No Problem” — Chance the Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
Rap/Sung Performance
“Hotline Bling” — Drake
Rap Song
“Hotline Bling” — Aubrey Graham & Paul Jefferies, songwriters (Drake)
Rap Album
“Coloring Book” — Chance the Rapper
Country Solo Performance
“My Church” — Maren Morris
Country Duo/Group Performance
“Jolene” — Pentatonix featuring Dolly Parton
Country Song
“Humble and Kind” — Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw)
Country Album
“A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” — Sturgill Simpson (read our interview)
New Age Album
“White Sun II” — White Sun
Improvised Jazz Solo
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” — John Scofield, soloist
Jazz Vocal Album
“Take Me to the Alley” — Gregory Porter
Jazz Instrumental Album
“Country for Old Men” — John Scofield
Large Jazz Ensemble Album
“Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom” — Ted Nash Big Band
Latin Jazz Album
“Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac” — Chucho Valdés
Gospel Performance/Song
“God Provides” — Tamela Mann; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
“Thy Will” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family; Bernie Herms, Hillary Scott & Emily Weisband, songwriters
Gospel Album
“Losing My Religion” — Kirk Franklin (read our interview)
Contemporary Christian Music Album
“Love Remains” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family
Roots Gospel Album
“Hymns” — Joey + Rory
Latin Pop Album
“Un Besito Mas” — Jesse & Joy
Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
“iLevitable” — iLe
Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
“Un Azteca En El Azteca, Vol. 1 (En Vivo)” — Vicente Fernández
Tropical Latin Album
“Donde Están?” — Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo
American Roots Performance
“House of Mercy” — Sarah Jarosz
American Roots Song
“Kid Sister” — Vince Gill, songwriter (The Time Jumpers)
Americana Album
“This Is Where I Live” — William Bell
Bluegrass Album
“Coming Home” — O’Connor Band With Mark O’Connor
Traditional Blues Album
“Porcupine Meat” — Bobby Rush
Contemporary Blues Album
“The Last Days of Oakland” — Fantastic Negrito
Folk Album
“Undercurrent” — Sarah Jarosz
Regional Roots Music Album
“E Walea” — Kalani Pe’a
Reggae Album
“Ziggy Marley” — Ziggy Marley
World Music Album
“Sing Me Home” — Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
Children’s Album
“Infinity Plus One” — Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Spoken Word Album
“In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox” — Carol Burnett
Comedy Album
“Talking for Clapping” — Patton Oswalt
Musical Theater Album
“The Color Purple”
Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Miles Ahead” (Miles Davis & Various Artists)
Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” — John Williams, composer
Song Written for Visual Media
“Can’t Stop The Feeling!” — Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Walt Dohrn, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar), Track from: “Trolls”
Instrumental Composition
“Spoken at Midnight” — Ted Nash, composer
Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
“You And I” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)
Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
“Flintstones” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)
Recording Package
“Blackstar” — Jonathan Barnbrook, art director (David Bowie)
Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
“Edith Piaf 1915-2015” — Gérard Lo Monaco, art director (Edith Piaf)
Album Notes
“Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along” — Ken Bloom & Richard Carlin, album notes writers (Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle)
Historical Album
“The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12” (Collector’s Edition), Steve Berkowitz & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Mark Wilder, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan)
Engineered Album, Non-Classical
“Blackstar” — David Bowie, Tom Elmhirst, Kevin Killen & Tony Visconti, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (David Bowie)
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Greg Kurstin
Remixed Recording
“Tearing Me Up” (RAC Remix) — André Allen Anjos, remixer (Bob Moses)
Surround Sound Album
“Dutilleux: Sur Le Même Accord; Les Citations; Mystère De L’instant & Timbres, Espace, Mouvement” — Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, surround mix engineers; Dmitriy Lipay, surround mastering engineer; Dmitriy Lipay, surround producer (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)
Engineered Album, Classical
“Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles” — Mark Donahue & Fred Vogler, engineers (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, LA Opera Chorus & Orchestra)
Producer of the Year, Classical
David Frost
Orchestral Performance
“Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9” — Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Opera Recording
“Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles” — James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus)
Choral Performance
“Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1” — Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir)
Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
“Steve Reich” — Third Coast Percussion
Classical Instrumental Solo
“Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway” — Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony)
Classical Solo Vocal Album
TIE: “Schumann & Berg” — Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist;
and “Shakespeare Songs” — Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker)
Classical Compendium
“Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle” — Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
Contemporary Classical Composition
“Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway” — Michael Daugherty, composer (Zuill Bailey, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)
Music Video
“Formation” — Beyoncé
Music Film
“The Beatles: Eight Days a Week the Touring Years” — Ron Howard, video director; Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Scott Pascucci & Nigel Sinclair, video producers
 

 
 

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Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Vocalist Barbara Carroll Passes Away Age 92

Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Vocalist Barbara Carroll Passes Away Age 92

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jazz-Pianist-Composer-and-Vocalist-Barbara-Carroll-Passes-Away-Age-92-20170212
 
Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Vocalist Barbara Carroll Passes Away Age 92
 
by BWW News Desk Feb. 12, 2017  

 
Musician Barbara Carroll has passed away at age 92. Barbara was an elegant jazz pianist, composer and vocalist, long recognized as one of the premier players of swinging jazz piano and expressive vocals. She can be heard on numerous recordings including 2016 Barbara Carroll Plays at Birdland(Birdland Records). Her passing was confirmed by Adam Feldman on Twitter.
 
Her career began in 1947 when she played opposite Dizzy Gillespie. Carroll quickly established herself as a jazz pianist and one of the first women to play bebop piano. She formed a jazz trio, which featured Chuck Wayne on guitar and Clyde Lombardi on bass, worked briefly with Benny Goodman. Later Charlie Byrd replaced Wayne and Joe Shulman replaced Lombardi. After Byrd’s departure, Carroll decided to have it be a drums, bass, and piano trio.
 
In the same year she landed a job at Tin Pan Alley where she became friends with the up and coming Tony Bennet. In the following years she played numerous clubs around New York and built her career.
 
In the 1950s Carroll and her trio worked on ME AND JULIET by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
 
Her career slowed as she dealt with personal joys and sorrows such as the death of her husband and the birth of a daughter. In 1978 she booked a job at the Carlyle Hotel where she stayed on for 25 years. More recently she played often at the Oak Room at the Algonquin as well as in various concerts.
 
Described by many as one of the most elegant, swinging ladies in her profession, Barbara Carroll was a pioneer in the field of jazz.
 

 
 

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Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Vocalist Barbara Carroll Passes Away Age 92

Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Vocalist Barbara Carroll Passes Away Age 92

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jazz-Pianist-Composer-and-Vocalist-Barbara-Carroll-Passes-Away-Age-92-20170212
 
Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Vocalist Barbara Carroll Passes Away Age 92
 
by BWW News Desk Feb. 12, 2017  

 
Musician Barbara Carroll has passed away at age 92. Barbara was an elegant jazz pianist, composer and vocalist, long recognized as one of the premier players of swinging jazz piano and expressive vocals. She can be heard on numerous recordings including 2016 Barbara Carroll Plays at Birdland(Birdland Records). Her passing was confirmed by Adam Feldman on Twitter.
 
Her career began in 1947 when she played opposite Dizzy Gillespie. Carroll quickly established herself as a jazz pianist and one of the first women to play bebop piano. She formed a jazz trio, which featured Chuck Wayne on guitar and Clyde Lombardi on bass, worked briefly with Benny Goodman. Later Charlie Byrd replaced Wayne and Joe Shulman replaced Lombardi. After Byrd’s departure, Carroll decided to have it be a drums, bass, and piano trio.
 
In the same year she landed a job at Tin Pan Alley where she became friends with the up and coming Tony Bennet. In the following years she played numerous clubs around New York and built her career.
 
In the 1950s Carroll and her trio worked on ME AND JULIET by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
 
Her career slowed as she dealt with personal joys and sorrows such as the death of her husband and the birth of a daughter. In 1978 she booked a job at the Carlyle Hotel where she stayed on for 25 years. More recently she played often at the Oak Room at the Algonquin as well as in various concerts.
 
Described by many as one of the most elegant, swinging ladies in her profession, Barbara Carroll was a pioneer in the field of jazz.
 

 
 

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A Star at the Apollo, Out of Its Spotlight – The New York Times

A Star at the Apollo, Out of Its Spotlight – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/apollo-star-tommy-hunt.html?hp
 
A Star at the Apollo, Out of Its Spotlight
By DAMIEN CAVE and FEB. 11, 2017

 
Tommy Hunt as he prepared for a performance at the Apollo Theater in September 1967. Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
 
Every Sunday in February, we will feature and explore previously unpublished photographs from The New York Times’s archives, with a special focus on the 1960s. Revisit last year’s Unpublished Black History project, sign up for our Race/Related newsletter and share your own experiences with black history in the comments.
 
One of the Apollo Theater’s fans got it almost right when she told Earl Caldwell of The New York Times: “You get two shows at the Apollo. That’s what I like down there. You get the show on the stage and the one in the audience.”
In fact, there’s a third performance that Times reporters and photographers often witnessed: the scene backstage. Check out Tommy Hunt here, gesticulating, arguing, singing — it’s hard to tell exactly what he was doing, but he’d probably done it before. Mr. Hunt was an Apollo regular in the ’60s, alongside Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, the Shirelles, the Supremes and many others.
 
He was also one of soul music’s earliest stars, joining the Flamingos in the ’50s and singing on what was then their biggest hit, “I Only Have Eyes for You.”
 
In this clip from 1959, he’s the one in the dark sweater walking down the snowy hill.
 
 
The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You”
 
 
 
 
 
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In the archival image at the top, it’s September 1967. Don Hogan Charles photographed Mr. Hunt for an article about Harlem and its struggle to draw large crowds to its nightspots at a time of rising crime and racial tension. It was the first and only mention of Mr. Hunt in The Times, whether by oversight or ignorance, but it fit a 1960s pattern in which many news outlets tended to show blacks primarily through a lens of crime and its impact on whites.
 
The Times did, nonetheless, allow for some nuance. The Apollo was held up as an exception, with nightly variety shows and full houses on weekends, and the photographs with the article showed Mr. Hunt onstage as members of the audience danced and pulled at him.
“It was a little bit scary at the time,” said Mr. Hunt, who is now 83 and still performing. “I remember that picture, I remember that night. When you see a bunch of girls running toward you from the stage, they look like a bunch of elephants. I was like, ‘What’s going to happen to me now?’”
 
The backstage image is being published here for the first time. While it never ran in The Times (probably because of the unidentified man with the closed eyes), it seemed to capture Mr. Hunt, who was 34 at the time, in prime form. Though he was not a household name, he was clearly a talented performer.
 
Two years later, Mr. Hunt said, he left New York and the Apollo in search of new audiences. He made his way to England, where he scored several more hit singles (including “Loving on the Losing Side” in 1976) as part of a music and dance movement called Northern Soul. He went on to take his music all over the world, as far away as “Australia, Africa, Iceland,” he said.
 
More recently, Mr. Hunt said, he’s been sticking closer to home, a village in England called Knottingley, where, he said, it is often so cold that he is forced to wear “17 jackets.” Discussing the photo of his younger self in New York, he noted that he was quite a good-looking man back in the ’60s.
 
He suggested that even now he looks as good as he did in 1967, and sounds nearly the same. “I’m still in the business. I’m still as agile as I was then,” he said. “I’m still doing it.”
 

 
 

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A Star at the Apollo, Out of Its Spotlight – The New York Times

A Star at the Apollo, Out of Its Spotlight – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/apollo-star-tommy-hunt.html?hp
 
A Star at the Apollo, Out of Its Spotlight
By DAMIEN CAVE and FEB. 11, 2017

 
Tommy Hunt as he prepared for a performance at the Apollo Theater in September 1967. Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
 
Every Sunday in February, we will feature and explore previously unpublished photographs from The New York Times’s archives, with a special focus on the 1960s. Revisit last year’s Unpublished Black History project, sign up for our Race/Related newsletter and share your own experiences with black history in the comments.
 
One of the Apollo Theater’s fans got it almost right when she told Earl Caldwell of The New York Times: “You get two shows at the Apollo. That’s what I like down there. You get the show on the stage and the one in the audience.”
In fact, there’s a third performance that Times reporters and photographers often witnessed: the scene backstage. Check out Tommy Hunt here, gesticulating, arguing, singing — it’s hard to tell exactly what he was doing, but he’d probably done it before. Mr. Hunt was an Apollo regular in the ’60s, alongside Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, the Shirelles, the Supremes and many others.
 
He was also one of soul music’s earliest stars, joining the Flamingos in the ’50s and singing on what was then their biggest hit, “I Only Have Eyes for You.”
 
In this clip from 1959, he’s the one in the dark sweater walking down the snowy hill.
 
 
The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You”
 
 
 
 
 
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The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You” Video by NRRArchives
 
In the archival image at the top, it’s September 1967. Don Hogan Charles photographed Mr. Hunt for an article about Harlem and its struggle to draw large crowds to its nightspots at a time of rising crime and racial tension. It was the first and only mention of Mr. Hunt in The Times, whether by oversight or ignorance, but it fit a 1960s pattern in which many news outlets tended to show blacks primarily through a lens of crime and its impact on whites.
 
The Times did, nonetheless, allow for some nuance. The Apollo was held up as an exception, with nightly variety shows and full houses on weekends, and the photographs with the article showed Mr. Hunt onstage as members of the audience danced and pulled at him.
“It was a little bit scary at the time,” said Mr. Hunt, who is now 83 and still performing. “I remember that picture, I remember that night. When you see a bunch of girls running toward you from the stage, they look like a bunch of elephants. I was like, ‘What’s going to happen to me now?’”
 
The backstage image is being published here for the first time. While it never ran in The Times (probably because of the unidentified man with the closed eyes), it seemed to capture Mr. Hunt, who was 34 at the time, in prime form. Though he was not a household name, he was clearly a talented performer.
 
Two years later, Mr. Hunt said, he left New York and the Apollo in search of new audiences. He made his way to England, where he scored several more hit singles (including “Loving on the Losing Side” in 1976) as part of a music and dance movement called Northern Soul. He went on to take his music all over the world, as far away as “Australia, Africa, Iceland,” he said.
 
More recently, Mr. Hunt said, he’s been sticking closer to home, a village in England called Knottingley, where, he said, it is often so cold that he is forced to wear “17 jackets.” Discussing the photo of his younger self in New York, he noted that he was quite a good-looking man back in the ’60s.
 
He suggested that even now he looks as good as he did in 1967, and sounds nearly the same. “I’m still in the business. I’m still as agile as I was then,” he said. “I’m still doing it.”
 

 
 

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Jazz Legend Al Jarreau Dead at 76 – EBONY

Jazz Legend Al Jarreau Dead at 76 – EBONY

http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/al-jarreau-dead#axzz4YVYCNBmH
 
Jazz Legend Al Jarreau Dead at 76
Just days after being hospitalized for exhaustion, the incomparable vocalist passed away in Los Angeles

by Britni Danielle, February 12, 2017
 

 
performs during the 62nd edition of the Sanremo Song Festival, in Sanremo, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
 
Just days after announcing that he was retiring from touring after being hospitalized for exhaustion, legendary jazz singer Al Jarreau passed away Sunday morning in Los Angeles.
 
The singer’s manager, Joe Gordon, released a statement–which was shared with EBONY by reporter Darlene Hill–about the singer’s death.
 
Dear friends, family and colleagues,
 
Al Jarreau passed away this morning, at about 5:30am LA time. He was in the hospital, kept comfortable by Ryan, Susan, and a few of his family and friends.
 
Ryan and Susan will hold a small, private service at home, for immediate family only. No public service is planned yet, but I will inform you if that changes.
 
Ryan asks that no flowers or gifts are send to their home or office. Instead, if you are motivated to do so, please make a contribution to the Wisconsin Foundation for School Music, a wonderful organization which supports music opportunities, teachers, and scholarships for students in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin. A donation page is here. Even if you do not plan to contribute, please list that page and give yourself a few minutes to watch a beautiful tribute video that Wisconsin Public Television produced to honor Al when he received his lifetime achievement award in October.
 
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Jarreau’s unique singing style helped to make him one of jazz’s greatest vocalists. During college, where he received a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, Jarreau performed with a local group called The Indigos before moving to San Francisco. There he hooked up with fellow jazz great George Duke to form a trio.
 
Inspired to pursue music full time, Jarreau moved south to Los Angeles, where he caught the eye of Warner Bros. talent scouts, who signed the singer to a recording contract. In Los Angeles, Jarreau’s career would take off after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album We Got By. In 1977, Jarreau would win his first of seven Grammy Awards for his live album, Look to the Rainbow.
 
Dubbed “the voice of versatility” by the Chicago Tribune, Jarreau released 16 studio albums, a host of live albums, and several compilations. The consummate performer, Jarreau constantly toured the world, dazzling audiences with his magical voice.
Jarreau passed away at a Los Angeles hospital early Sunday morning. The singer leaves behind his wife, Susan, and his son, Ryan. He was 76.
 
 
Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/al-jarreau-dead#ixzz4YVYK2CTl
 
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Jazz Legend Al Jarreau Dead at 76 – EBONY

Jazz Legend Al Jarreau Dead at 76 – EBONY

http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/al-jarreau-dead#axzz4YVYCNBmH
 
Jazz Legend Al Jarreau Dead at 76
Just days after being hospitalized for exhaustion, the incomparable vocalist passed away in Los Angeles

by Britni Danielle, February 12, 2017
 

 
performs during the 62nd edition of the Sanremo Song Festival, in Sanremo, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
 
Just days after announcing that he was retiring from touring after being hospitalized for exhaustion, legendary jazz singer Al Jarreau passed away Sunday morning in Los Angeles.
 
The singer’s manager, Joe Gordon, released a statement–which was shared with EBONY by reporter Darlene Hill–about the singer’s death.
 
Dear friends, family and colleagues,
 
Al Jarreau passed away this morning, at about 5:30am LA time. He was in the hospital, kept comfortable by Ryan, Susan, and a few of his family and friends.
 
Ryan and Susan will hold a small, private service at home, for immediate family only. No public service is planned yet, but I will inform you if that changes.
 
Ryan asks that no flowers or gifts are send to their home or office. Instead, if you are motivated to do so, please make a contribution to the Wisconsin Foundation for School Music, a wonderful organization which supports music opportunities, teachers, and scholarships for students in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin. A donation page is here. Even if you do not plan to contribute, please list that page and give yourself a few minutes to watch a beautiful tribute video that Wisconsin Public Television produced to honor Al when he received his lifetime achievement award in October.
 
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Jarreau’s unique singing style helped to make him one of jazz’s greatest vocalists. During college, where he received a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, Jarreau performed with a local group called The Indigos before moving to San Francisco. There he hooked up with fellow jazz great George Duke to form a trio.
 
Inspired to pursue music full time, Jarreau moved south to Los Angeles, where he caught the eye of Warner Bros. talent scouts, who signed the singer to a recording contract. In Los Angeles, Jarreau’s career would take off after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album We Got By. In 1977, Jarreau would win his first of seven Grammy Awards for his live album, Look to the Rainbow.
 
Dubbed “the voice of versatility” by the Chicago Tribune, Jarreau released 16 studio albums, a host of live albums, and several compilations. The consummate performer, Jarreau constantly toured the world, dazzling audiences with his magical voice.
Jarreau passed away at a Los Angeles hospital early Sunday morning. The singer leaves behind his wife, Susan, and his son, Ryan. He was 76.
 
 
Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/al-jarreau-dead#ixzz4YVYK2CTl
 
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Leo Diamond – On stage – YouTube

Leo Diamond – On stage – YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpeUGwbCUzI

 

 
 

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Leo Diamond – On stage – YouTube

Leo Diamond – On stage – YouTube


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Unseen footage of Beatles found lying in drawer after 52 years expected to sell for £10,000

Unseen footage of Beatles found lying in drawer after 52 years expected to sell for £10,000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/07/unseen-footage-beatles-found-lying-drawer-52-years-expected/
 
Unseen footage of Beatles found lying in drawer after 52 years expected to sell for £10,000
 
 
 
Watch | Unseen footage of Beatles on first north American tour
 
00:37
 
 
                  Telegraph Reporters
7 FEBRUARY 2017 • 8:43PM
Previously unseen footage of the Beatles performing on their first north American tour is expected to sell for more than £10,000 at an auction.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961546_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZ9XL2X431wTPNFE7gDJFdRIowTHNun16JlY8a9BOm6U.jpg” alt=” Ringo Starr and George Harrison from The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 ” width=”320″ height=”200″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

Ringo Starr and George Harrison from The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964  CREDIT: PA
The 8mm film is from the band’s performance in Montreal, Canada in September 1964 and shows rare colour footage of the Fab Four backstage.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961499_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqdyv8yiRr2SFzJ4Ti1aDsrFnQoZ0OE9mOYSevICj5Paw.jpg” alt=”The rare unseen colour cine film of The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 due to be auctioned for £10,000″ width=”285″ height=”178″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

The rare unseen colour cine film of The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 due to be auctioned for £10,000 CREDIT: PA
Filmed by the father of one of The Four Frenchmen, who were supporting the Beatles, the film also shows part of their performance and a press conference after the show.
 
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The 10-minute recording also reveals a heavy police presence after death threats had been made towards drummer Ringo Starr.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961504_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqRLU6RByDcehJVbJAoDuCGRD1n4kevlguV1NvFjsjA6Q.jpg” alt=”Police presence outside as the Beatles play in Montreal on September 8 1964 ” width=”320″ height=”199″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

Police presence outside as the Beatles play in Montreal on September 8 1964  CREDIT: PA
It was discovered by the cameraman’s grandson, Ron Notarangelo, after his grandfather recently passed away.
The sale of the colour cine footage is part of Omega Auctions’ annual Beatles auction.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961462_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq5o15DP0W_h39LCMR14G1anhA5q1kNVPYvce3e8cC7o0.jpg” alt=”footage from a rare unseen colour cine film of Paul McCartney from The Beatles backstage after playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 ” width=”320″ height=”200″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

A rare unseen colour cine film of Paul McCartney from The Beatles backstage after playing in Montreal on September 8 1964  CREDIT: PA
The event is being held in Warrington on March 18.
Auctioneer Paul Fairweather said: “This is an incredible find of great historical importance as there is no known footage from this performance, together with the fact that it is so clear and in colour, which is rare for the early 60s.”
 

 
 

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Unseen footage of Beatles found lying in drawer after 52 years expected to sell for £10,000

Unseen footage of Beatles found lying in drawer after 52 years expected to sell for £10,000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/07/unseen-footage-beatles-found-lying-drawer-52-years-expected/
 
Unseen footage of Beatles found lying in drawer after 52 years expected to sell for £10,000
 
 
 
Watch | Unseen footage of Beatles on first north American tour
 
00:37
 
 
                  Telegraph Reporters
7 FEBRUARY 2017 • 8:43PM
Previously unseen footage of the Beatles performing on their first north American tour is expected to sell for more than £10,000 at an auction.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961546_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZ9XL2X431wTPNFE7gDJFdRIowTHNun16JlY8a9BOm6U.jpg” alt=” Ringo Starr and George Harrison from The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 ” width=”320″ height=”200″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

Ringo Starr and George Harrison from The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964  CREDIT: PA
The 8mm film is from the band’s performance in Montreal, Canada in September 1964 and shows rare colour footage of the Fab Four backstage.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961499_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqdyv8yiRr2SFzJ4Ti1aDsrFnQoZ0OE9mOYSevICj5Paw.jpg” alt=”The rare unseen colour cine film of The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 due to be auctioned for £10,000″ width=”285″ height=”178″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

The rare unseen colour cine film of The Beatles playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 due to be auctioned for £10,000 CREDIT: PA
Filmed by the father of one of The Four Frenchmen, who were supporting the Beatles, the film also shows part of their performance and a press conference after the show.
 
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The 10-minute recording also reveals a heavy police presence after death threats had been made towards drummer Ringo Starr.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961504_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqRLU6RByDcehJVbJAoDuCGRD1n4kevlguV1NvFjsjA6Q.jpg” alt=”Police presence outside as the Beatles play in Montreal on September 8 1964 ” width=”320″ height=”199″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

Police presence outside as the Beatles play in Montreal on September 8 1964  CREDIT: PA
It was discovered by the cameraman’s grandson, Ron Notarangelo, after his grandfather recently passed away.
The sale of the colour cine footage is part of Omega Auctions’ annual Beatles auction.
<img src=”/content/dam/news/2017/02/07/JS119961462_PA_Beatles-film-for-sale-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq5o15DP0W_h39LCMR14G1anhA5q1kNVPYvce3e8cC7o0.jpg” alt=”footage from a rare unseen colour cine film of Paul McCartney from The Beatles backstage after playing in Montreal on September 8 1964 ” width=”320″ height=”200″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>

A rare unseen colour cine film of Paul McCartney from The Beatles backstage after playing in Montreal on September 8 1964  CREDIT: PA
The event is being held in Warrington on March 18.
Auctioneer Paul Fairweather said: “This is an incredible find of great historical importance as there is no known footage from this performance, together with the fact that it is so clear and in colour, which is rare for the early 60s.”
 

 
 

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Svend Asmussen, an Early Master of Jazz Violin, Dies at 100 – The New York Times

Svend Asmussen, an Early Master of Jazz Violin, Dies at 100 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/arts/music/svend-asmussen-dead-jazz-violinist.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170210
 
Svend Asmussen, an Early Master of Jazz Violin, Dies at 100
By PETER KEEPNEWSFEB. 10, 2017


Svend Asmussen, left, with Benny Goodman in 1950. Allan Moe/Scanpix Denmark, via Reuters
 
Svend Asmussen, a Danish jazz violinist whose collaborators over more than 70 years included Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, the Indian violinist L. Subramaniam and the bluegrass mandolinist David Grisman, died on Tuesday. He was 100.
 
Mr. Asmussen’s son Claus confirmed the death to The Associated Press. He did not say where his father died.
 
Mr. Asmussen was one of the first world-class jazz musicians from Scandinavia and one of the first jazz violinists of note. The jazz writer Doug Ramsey placed him among “the handful (or fewer) of violinists who in the 1930s proved their instrument capable of swing and emotional expression at the highest jazz level.”
 
Inspired by recordings of the American violinists Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith, Mr. Asmussen began leading a small group in Copenhagen in the mid-1930s. By the end of the decade his group was regularly opening for, and impressing, visiting American musicians like Fats Waller.
 
An ebullient performer, Mr. Asmussen was known for his onstage singing and clowning as well as his playing. He rarely performed outside Europe, but he did tour the United States in the late 1950s and early ’60s with the Swe-Danes, a vocal and instrumental trio with the Swedish vocalist Alice Babs and the Danish guitarist Ulrik Neumann.
 
Among his more celebrated recordings were two albums made in the 1960s that teamed him with other great jazz violinists: “Duke Ellington’s Jazz Violin Session,” with Stéphane Grappelli and Ray Nance, and “The Violin Summit,” with Grappelli, Smith and Jean-Luc Ponty. He also recorded with the pianist John Lewis and the vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, as well as with Mr. Subramaniam, on the 1978 album “Garland,” and Mr. Grisman, on the 1987 album “Svingin’ With Svend.”
He continued performing and recording well into the 21st century.
 
Sven Harald Christian Asmussen was born in Copenhagen on Feb. 28, 1916, and began taking piano lessons at 5 before switching to violin. He attended dental school but, he said in a 1955 interview, did not have “the least interest in dentistry” and was playing music professionally before he was out of his teens.
 
Survivors include his wife, Ellen Bick Meier, and three children from his marriage to Annegrethe Thomassen, who died in 2000.
 

 
 

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Svend Asmussen, an Early Master of Jazz Violin, Dies at 100 – The New York Times

Svend Asmussen, an Early Master of Jazz Violin, Dies at 100 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/arts/music/svend-asmussen-dead-jazz-violinist.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170210
 
Svend Asmussen, an Early Master of Jazz Violin, Dies at 100
By PETER KEEPNEWSFEB. 10, 2017


Svend Asmussen, left, with Benny Goodman in 1950. Allan Moe/Scanpix Denmark, via Reuters
 
Svend Asmussen, a Danish jazz violinist whose collaborators over more than 70 years included Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, the Indian violinist L. Subramaniam and the bluegrass mandolinist David Grisman, died on Tuesday. He was 100.
 
Mr. Asmussen’s son Claus confirmed the death to The Associated Press. He did not say where his father died.
 
Mr. Asmussen was one of the first world-class jazz musicians from Scandinavia and one of the first jazz violinists of note. The jazz writer Doug Ramsey placed him among “the handful (or fewer) of violinists who in the 1930s proved their instrument capable of swing and emotional expression at the highest jazz level.”
 
Inspired by recordings of the American violinists Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith, Mr. Asmussen began leading a small group in Copenhagen in the mid-1930s. By the end of the decade his group was regularly opening for, and impressing, visiting American musicians like Fats Waller.
 
An ebullient performer, Mr. Asmussen was known for his onstage singing and clowning as well as his playing. He rarely performed outside Europe, but he did tour the United States in the late 1950s and early ’60s with the Swe-Danes, a vocal and instrumental trio with the Swedish vocalist Alice Babs and the Danish guitarist Ulrik Neumann.
 
Among his more celebrated recordings were two albums made in the 1960s that teamed him with other great jazz violinists: “Duke Ellington’s Jazz Violin Session,” with Stéphane Grappelli and Ray Nance, and “The Violin Summit,” with Grappelli, Smith and Jean-Luc Ponty. He also recorded with the pianist John Lewis and the vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, as well as with Mr. Subramaniam, on the 1978 album “Garland,” and Mr. Grisman, on the 1987 album “Svingin’ With Svend.”
He continued performing and recording well into the 21st century.
 
Sven Harald Christian Asmussen was born in Copenhagen on Feb. 28, 1916, and began taking piano lessons at 5 before switching to violin. He attended dental school but, he said in a 1955 interview, did not have “the least interest in dentistry” and was playing music professionally before he was out of his teens.
 
Survivors include his wife, Ellen Bick Meier, and three children from his marriage to Annegrethe Thomassen, who died in 2000.
 

 
 

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Meet the Warm Tone, the Software-Controlled Record Press Fueling Vinyl’s Comeback | WIRED

Meet the Warm Tone, the Software-Controlled Record Press Fueling Vinyl’s Comeback | WIRED

  • RENE CHUN GEAR

 

  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 02.09.17.02.09.17

 

  • TIME OF PUBLICATION: 8:00 AM.8:00 AM

 
The first new record-pressing machines built in over 30 years are finally online.
 
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/warm-tone-record-press-hand-drawn-records/?mc_cid=de54116028


 

 
 

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Meet the Warm Tone, the Software-Controlled Record Press Fueling Vinyl’s Comeback | WIRED

Meet the Warm Tone, the Software-Controlled Record Press Fueling Vinyl’s Comeback | WIRED

  • RENE CHUN GEAR

 

  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 02.09.17.02.09.17

 

  • TIME OF PUBLICATION: 8:00 AM.8:00 AM

 
The first new record-pressing machines built in over 30 years are finally online.
 
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/warm-tone-record-press-hand-drawn-records/?mc_cid=de54116028


 

 
 

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Big Band star singer Lynn Roberts dies at 82 at home in Bluffton, SC | The Island Packet

Big Band star singer Lynn Roberts dies at 82 at home in Bluffton, SC | The Island Packet

http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/david-lauderdale/article131703824.html


Lynn Roberts performing at The Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island. Darla Campbell Submitted
 
 
 
BY DAVID LAUDERDALE
dlauderdale@islandpacket.com

  •  

The songbird now sings her song in heaven.
 
That simple obituary from Sauls Funeral Home in Bluffton cloaks the real story of Lynn Roberts.
 
She died on Jan. 21 in her “happy place,” her home in Sun City Hilton Head. She was 82, a victim of cancer, but to the end a high-heel-wearing survivor of America’s most elegant era of song.
 
On Hilton Head Island, we knew her as the pretty singer in her neighbor Bob Alberti’s trio when they sold out the Jazz Corner several times a year. Some recall her singing in Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra pops concerts.
For the past couple of years, Lynn jumped into the action with the rock-style praise team at Bluffton’s Lowcountry Community Church.
 
We can all be forgiven for not knowing there was an angel in our midst, because she never tried to tell us so.
 
But Lynn Roberts was “one of the super songbirds of all time,” says Alberti, a friend since childhood in New York City.
 
He said she was the only woman to sing with all the superstars of the Big Band era: Charlie Spivak, Vincent Lopez, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Harry James.
 
She performed on Broadway and at the Paramount Theatre, the Coconut Grove, the Palladium, and the Cafe Rouge — starting as one of the boys on the bus at age 15. She toured the globe with Doc Severinsen and voiced one of the spoof “Androoze Sisters” on “Sesame Street.” She sang at President Ronald Reagan’s inaugural ball. And she was the sweet or sassy voice behind some of America’s great advertising jingles for “Mmm, mmm good” Campbell’s Soup, Chiquita bananas, Chantilly perfumes, Pan Am and Camel.
“She had a gift and she never took that gift or any fan for granted,” said her daughter, Darla Campbell of Bluffton. “She thought its purpose was to give joy to others.”
 
‘A canary’
Lynn Roberts was born Leonore Theresa Raisig in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens. Her father played piano and encouraged her in show business, but her mother did not. She was performing on stage at age 8 and was on “The Horn and Hardart Children’s Hour” even earlier.
Alberti was 16 and a pianist with Charlie Spivak’s band when Roberts came aboard.
 
She immediately excelled as a “girl singer,” or what they called “a canary.”
 
“You had to have a very pleasing appearance,” Alberti said. “You had to have an ‘I’m with you’ attitude with the dancers enjoying the band.”
 
Lois Masteller at the Jazz Corner said those band directors were so demanding, you could get fired for breathing wrong.
 
And Lynn Roberts did get fired (and hired back), once for refusing Tommy Dorsey’s demand that she get rid of her ponytail.
 
She married the Spivak band’s lead trumpet player, Daryl “Flea” Campbell, when she was 19. He told a lot about that unusual life in his book, “Don’t Bury Me in a Tuxedo.” They had three children in a 17-year marriage that ended so amicably that, wherever Lynn went, Flea was nearby. When Lynn and her husband, Lewis Hankins, moved a block from the Albertis about a decade ago, Flea came as well and also lived in Bluffton. Lynn was at his side when he died three years ago.
Darla Campbell said her parents were an example of how adults should act.
 
“She would say over and over and over, ‘Be kind to one another. Be kind to everybody.’ ”
 
Darla feels that, if not for the children, her mother’s name would be as well known as contemporaries Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Helen O’Connell or Margaret Whiting.
Alberti says Lynn was every bit as good.
 
‘Stylish time’
At 80, Lynn looked and sounded like she was 40.
 
“She had a pure, mellifluous voice,” Alberti said. “It was pure singing. You understood the lyrics. It was a pleasant sound. She was never a diva. In fact, she was the exact opposite of a diva.”
 
Masteller said Lynn commanded the room but did not inject herself into any of the thousands of lyrics she knew by heart.
 
Lynn’s final performance at the Jazz Corner came last May, and it included her son, Daryl Campbell, and her grandson, drummer Zachary Campbell.
 
She was a soloist in the “First Ladies of Song” performance with the Pasadena (Calif.) Symphony and POPS last June but was pretty sick in her last public song at her grandson’s wedding in September.
 
Her voice lives on through YouTube and a number of albums, including her last one recorded with Alberti, “Just Between Friends.”
 
A memorial service will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in Bluffton. People will be coming from Las Vegas and New York.
 
“Lynn bridged us to such an elegant era, with its big music and ballroom dancing,” Masteller said. “It was a really classy, stylish time. You hate to see that era end.”
 
David Lauderdale: 843-706-8115, @ThatsLauderdale

Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/david-lauderdale/article131703824.html#storylink=cpy
 

 
 

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Big Band star singer Lynn Roberts dies at 82 at home in Bluffton, SC | The Island Packet

Big Band star singer Lynn Roberts dies at 82 at home in Bluffton, SC | The Island Packet

http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/david-lauderdale/article131703824.html


Lynn Roberts performing at The Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island. Darla Campbell Submitted
 
 
 
BY DAVID LAUDERDALE
dlauderdale@islandpacket.com

  •  

The songbird now sings her song in heaven.
 
That simple obituary from Sauls Funeral Home in Bluffton cloaks the real story of Lynn Roberts.
 
She died on Jan. 21 in her “happy place,” her home in Sun City Hilton Head. She was 82, a victim of cancer, but to the end a high-heel-wearing survivor of America’s most elegant era of song.
 
On Hilton Head Island, we knew her as the pretty singer in her neighbor Bob Alberti’s trio when they sold out the Jazz Corner several times a year. Some recall her singing in Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra pops concerts.
For the past couple of years, Lynn jumped into the action with the rock-style praise team at Bluffton’s Lowcountry Community Church.
 
We can all be forgiven for not knowing there was an angel in our midst, because she never tried to tell us so.
 
But Lynn Roberts was “one of the super songbirds of all time,” says Alberti, a friend since childhood in New York City.
 
He said she was the only woman to sing with all the superstars of the Big Band era: Charlie Spivak, Vincent Lopez, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Harry James.
 
She performed on Broadway and at the Paramount Theatre, the Coconut Grove, the Palladium, and the Cafe Rouge — starting as one of the boys on the bus at age 15. She toured the globe with Doc Severinsen and voiced one of the spoof “Androoze Sisters” on “Sesame Street.” She sang at President Ronald Reagan’s inaugural ball. And she was the sweet or sassy voice behind some of America’s great advertising jingles for “Mmm, mmm good” Campbell’s Soup, Chiquita bananas, Chantilly perfumes, Pan Am and Camel.
“She had a gift and she never took that gift or any fan for granted,” said her daughter, Darla Campbell of Bluffton. “She thought its purpose was to give joy to others.”
 
‘A canary’
Lynn Roberts was born Leonore Theresa Raisig in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens. Her father played piano and encouraged her in show business, but her mother did not. She was performing on stage at age 8 and was on “The Horn and Hardart Children’s Hour” even earlier.
Alberti was 16 and a pianist with Charlie Spivak’s band when Roberts came aboard.
 
She immediately excelled as a “girl singer,” or what they called “a canary.”
 
“You had to have a very pleasing appearance,” Alberti said. “You had to have an ‘I’m with you’ attitude with the dancers enjoying the band.”
 
Lois Masteller at the Jazz Corner said those band directors were so demanding, you could get fired for breathing wrong.
 
And Lynn Roberts did get fired (and hired back), once for refusing Tommy Dorsey’s demand that she get rid of her ponytail.
 
She married the Spivak band’s lead trumpet player, Daryl “Flea” Campbell, when she was 19. He told a lot about that unusual life in his book, “Don’t Bury Me in a Tuxedo.” They had three children in a 17-year marriage that ended so amicably that, wherever Lynn went, Flea was nearby. When Lynn and her husband, Lewis Hankins, moved a block from the Albertis about a decade ago, Flea came as well and also lived in Bluffton. Lynn was at his side when he died three years ago.
Darla Campbell said her parents were an example of how adults should act.
 
“She would say over and over and over, ‘Be kind to one another. Be kind to everybody.’ ”
 
Darla feels that, if not for the children, her mother’s name would be as well known as contemporaries Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Helen O’Connell or Margaret Whiting.
Alberti says Lynn was every bit as good.
 
‘Stylish time’
At 80, Lynn looked and sounded like she was 40.
 
“She had a pure, mellifluous voice,” Alberti said. “It was pure singing. You understood the lyrics. It was a pleasant sound. She was never a diva. In fact, she was the exact opposite of a diva.”
 
Masteller said Lynn commanded the room but did not inject herself into any of the thousands of lyrics she knew by heart.
 
Lynn’s final performance at the Jazz Corner came last May, and it included her son, Daryl Campbell, and her grandson, drummer Zachary Campbell.
 
She was a soloist in the “First Ladies of Song” performance with the Pasadena (Calif.) Symphony and POPS last June but was pretty sick in her last public song at her grandson’s wedding in September.
 
Her voice lives on through YouTube and a number of albums, including her last one recorded with Alberti, “Just Between Friends.”
 
A memorial service will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in Bluffton. People will be coming from Las Vegas and New York.
 
“Lynn bridged us to such an elegant era, with its big music and ballroom dancing,” Masteller said. “It was a really classy, stylish time. You hate to see that era end.”
 
David Lauderdale: 843-706-8115, @ThatsLauderdale

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Smokey Robinson at Gershwin’s Piano
 
February 9, 2017 by Nicholas A. Brown
 
(The following is a guest post by Director of Communications Gayle Osterberg. It was originally published on the Library of Congress Blog.) 
 
This Friday (Feb. 10) PBS stations nationwide (9 pm Eastern – check your local listings) will share with America the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song tribute concert honoring Motown legend Smokey Robinson.
 
It was a great pleasure to host Smokey, Berry Gordy, family and friends at the Library the day before the concert was taped back in November. Library of Congress staff shared treasures from Motown and African-American music history, like maps from Detroit in the late fifties with handwritten notes by Alan Lomax, historic recordings of Jelly Roll Morton and the original copyright deposit of “I Cry”, a song Smokey co-wrote with Gordy and his first copyright submission.
 
The highlight of the visit, for me, was to watch Smokey sit down at George Gershwin’s favorite piano – on permanent display in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building – and talk with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
 
To say Dr. Hayden is a Smokey fan is an understatement, and she had a series of questions for the honoree, who tells her about Gershwin’s influence on his childhood, when he decided singing was his passion and what music he’s listening to now. He also opens up in an emotional moment about his relationship with Berry Gordy and Gordy’s impact on his life.
 
We’ve been looking forward to sharing this touching conversation with you ahead of Friday’s broadcast.
 
I hope you enjoy it!

 
 

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Smokey Robinson at Gershwin’s Piano
 
February 9, 2017 by Nicholas A. Brown
 
(The following is a guest post by Director of Communications Gayle Osterberg. It was originally published on the Library of Congress Blog.) 
 
This Friday (Feb. 10) PBS stations nationwide (9 pm Eastern – check your local listings) will share with America the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song tribute concert honoring Motown legend Smokey Robinson.
 
It was a great pleasure to host Smokey, Berry Gordy, family and friends at the Library the day before the concert was taped back in November. Library of Congress staff shared treasures from Motown and African-American music history, like maps from Detroit in the late fifties with handwritten notes by Alan Lomax, historic recordings of Jelly Roll Morton and the original copyright deposit of “I Cry”, a song Smokey co-wrote with Gordy and his first copyright submission.
 
The highlight of the visit, for me, was to watch Smokey sit down at George Gershwin’s favorite piano – on permanent display in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building – and talk with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
 
To say Dr. Hayden is a Smokey fan is an understatement, and she had a series of questions for the honoree, who tells her about Gershwin’s influence on his childhood, when he decided singing was his passion and what music he’s listening to now. He also opens up in an emotional moment about his relationship with Berry Gordy and Gordy’s impact on his life.
 
We’ve been looking forward to sharing this touching conversation with you ahead of Friday’s broadcast.
 
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“Morning Train”- Julius Cheeks & the Knights

“Morning Train”- Julius Cheeks & the Knights

Check this:
 
Thx to WVKR Blues DJ Doug Price:
 
Dig the elbows on the piano about 2/3 in…
 
This is where R & R comes from.
 
Deep in the church.
 
Sanctified to the bone.
 
Move over Jerry Lee and Cecil too!
 
The late Rev. Julius Cheeks, with his group, the Knights of Washington, DC; along with his wife, Mrs. Margie Cheeks, singing “Morning Train.” Play that PIE-YANNA, Margie!
 
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThFMo5fQJm8

 
 

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“Morning Train”- Julius Cheeks & the Knights

“Morning Train”- Julius Cheeks & the Knights

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Thx to WVKR Blues DJ Doug Price:
 
Dig the elbows on the piano about 2/3 in…
 
This is where R & R comes from.
 
Deep in the church.
 
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Move over Jerry Lee and Cecil too!
 
The late Rev. Julius Cheeks, with his group, the Knights of Washington, DC; along with his wife, Mrs. Margie Cheeks, singing “Morning Train.” Play that PIE-YANNA, Margie!
 
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThFMo5fQJm8

 
 

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David Axelrod, Legendary Producer, Dead at 83 | Pitchfork

David Axelrod, Legendary Producer, Dead at 83 | Pitchfork

http://pitchfork.com/news/71396-david-axelrod-legendary-producer-dead-at-83/
 
David Axelrod, Legendary Producer, Dead at 83
The producer, arranger, and composer was sampled by DJ Shadow, Lauryn Hill, Dr. Dre, and more

David Axelrod

Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
David Axelrod—the legendary composer, arranger, producer, and musician—has died. He was 83. Axelrod began working at Capitol Records in the early ‘60s as a producer and A&R person. He worked on a number of jazz and soul records by artists like Cannonball Adderley, Lou Rawls, and the Electric Prunes, and was sampled prominently by DJ Shadow (“Midnight in a Perfect World”), Lauryn Hill (“Every Ghetto, Every City”), Dr. Dre (“The Next Episode”), De La Soul (“I Am I Be”), and others. Shadow, Questlove, El-P, and Flying Lotus were among the artists who mourned Axelrod on social media after his passing.
 
Axelrod also had a long career as a solo artist, releasing two William Blake-inspired records—1968’s Song of Innocence and 1969’s Songs of Experience—and more environmentally-focused work like 1970’s Earth Rot. After taking a hiatus from recording in 1980, Axelrod’s music would surface as a major influence on dance and hip-hop acts. A retrospective compilation, 1968 to 1970: An Axelrod Anthology, was released in 1999.
 
“I’ve had such a great life. It’s just been one great adventure,” Axelrod said in a 2001 interview, “Maybe I haven’t left big footsteps, but I’ve left something. People all over the world seem to be listening to my music. So, what the hell?”
DJ Shadow shared this statement with Pitchfork:
 
David Axelrod was not a familiar name to most vinyl enthusiasts when I first discovered his music in 1989 (through a sealed copy of his classic LP “Song Of Innocence.”)  Perhaps it’s because he wasn’t interested in seeking the zeitgeist of fame; indeed, during his most productive era between the mid ’60s and mid ’70s, he was essentially a workaday producer, seemingly content to lend his energies into making others sound better.  What separates him from his contemporaries in striking fashion is that he refused to specialize, and was willing to tackle a wide breadth of genres in an era when most producers strove to establish brand recognition within the rock, jazz, or vocal field.  Axelrod did them all, usually with best friend H.B. Barnum arranging:  Soul (Lou Rawls), jazz (Cannonball Adderly), pop (David McCallum), even hard rock (Hardwater). 
 
Of course it was through his solo albums that he wielded his greatest potency.  Albums like “Songs Of Experience” (1969) and “Earth Rot” (1970) were challenging, intellectual social critiques and meditations on the failures of man disguised as easy-listening (On the latter point, perhaps this is why it took so long for collectors to recognize their brilliance.)  As a producer just beginning to chart my path, I was hugely inspired by the audaciousness of the subject matter, and the sober singularity of his musical vision.  He urged L.A.’s finest session players to create a melancholic world which felt like my world, and reflected the dread and disappointment society inevitably inspires in its emotionally vulnerable.   
David Axelrod’s output remains totally unique and uncommonly cohesive, which is a testament to his vision as a composer.  As a producer, I count him as one of my biggest influences.  He is missed and loved by all of his family, friends, and fans.        
-DJ Shadow, February 6

 
 

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David Axelrod, Legendary Producer, Dead at 83 | Pitchfork

David Axelrod, Legendary Producer, Dead at 83 | Pitchfork

http://pitchfork.com/news/71396-david-axelrod-legendary-producer-dead-at-83/
 
David Axelrod, Legendary Producer, Dead at 83
The producer, arranger, and composer was sampled by DJ Shadow, Lauryn Hill, Dr. Dre, and more

David Axelrod

Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
David Axelrod—the legendary composer, arranger, producer, and musician—has died. He was 83. Axelrod began working at Capitol Records in the early ‘60s as a producer and A&R person. He worked on a number of jazz and soul records by artists like Cannonball Adderley, Lou Rawls, and the Electric Prunes, and was sampled prominently by DJ Shadow (“Midnight in a Perfect World”), Lauryn Hill (“Every Ghetto, Every City”), Dr. Dre (“The Next Episode”), De La Soul (“I Am I Be”), and others. Shadow, Questlove, El-P, and Flying Lotus were among the artists who mourned Axelrod on social media after his passing.
 
Axelrod also had a long career as a solo artist, releasing two William Blake-inspired records—1968’s Song of Innocence and 1969’s Songs of Experience—and more environmentally-focused work like 1970’s Earth Rot. After taking a hiatus from recording in 1980, Axelrod’s music would surface as a major influence on dance and hip-hop acts. A retrospective compilation, 1968 to 1970: An Axelrod Anthology, was released in 1999.
 
“I’ve had such a great life. It’s just been one great adventure,” Axelrod said in a 2001 interview, “Maybe I haven’t left big footsteps, but I’ve left something. People all over the world seem to be listening to my music. So, what the hell?”
DJ Shadow shared this statement with Pitchfork:
 
David Axelrod was not a familiar name to most vinyl enthusiasts when I first discovered his music in 1989 (through a sealed copy of his classic LP “Song Of Innocence.”)  Perhaps it’s because he wasn’t interested in seeking the zeitgeist of fame; indeed, during his most productive era between the mid ’60s and mid ’70s, he was essentially a workaday producer, seemingly content to lend his energies into making others sound better.  What separates him from his contemporaries in striking fashion is that he refused to specialize, and was willing to tackle a wide breadth of genres in an era when most producers strove to establish brand recognition within the rock, jazz, or vocal field.  Axelrod did them all, usually with best friend H.B. Barnum arranging:  Soul (Lou Rawls), jazz (Cannonball Adderly), pop (David McCallum), even hard rock (Hardwater). 
 
Of course it was through his solo albums that he wielded his greatest potency.  Albums like “Songs Of Experience” (1969) and “Earth Rot” (1970) were challenging, intellectual social critiques and meditations on the failures of man disguised as easy-listening (On the latter point, perhaps this is why it took so long for collectors to recognize their brilliance.)  As a producer just beginning to chart my path, I was hugely inspired by the audaciousness of the subject matter, and the sober singularity of his musical vision.  He urged L.A.’s finest session players to create a melancholic world which felt like my world, and reflected the dread and disappointment society inevitably inspires in its emotionally vulnerable.   
David Axelrod’s output remains totally unique and uncommonly cohesive, which is a testament to his vision as a composer.  As a producer, I count him as one of my biggest influences.  He is missed and loved by all of his family, friends, and fans.        
-DJ Shadow, February 6

 
 

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1940’s 8 mm film Hoosier Hotshots..I Like Banana’s (because they have no bones).wmv – YouTube

1940’s 8 mm film Hoosier Hotshots..I Like Banana’s (because they have no bones).wmv – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HctWBcPxaw
 
A 1940’s 8 mm film promoting Banana’s, Hoosier Hotshots recorded this song in 1941. Castle Films made the Film for Chiquita. Castle Films went out of business in 1984. 

 
 

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1940’s 8 mm film Hoosier Hotshots..I Like Banana’s (because they have no bones).wmv – YouTube

1940’s 8 mm film Hoosier Hotshots..I Like Banana’s (because they have no bones).wmv – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HctWBcPxaw
 
A 1940’s 8 mm film promoting Banana’s, Hoosier Hotshots recorded this song in 1941. Castle Films made the Film for Chiquita. Castle Films went out of business in 1984. 

 
 

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Roy Budd At Newport (w/ Dave Holland) – March Past- YouTube

Roy Budd At Newport (w/ Dave Holland) – March Past- YouTube

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“March Past” composed by Oscar Peterson. 

Roy Budd – Piano
Dave Holland – Bass
Chris Karan – Drums


 

 
 

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Roy Budd At Newport (w/ Dave Holland) – March Past- YouTube

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“March Past” composed by Oscar Peterson. 

Roy Budd – Piano
Dave Holland – Bass
Chris Karan – Drums


 

 
 

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Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize – The New York Times

Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/music/sting-and-wayne-shorter-win-polar-music-prize.html?mc_cid=8643f2f01d
 
Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize
By ANDREW R. CHOWFEB. 7, 2017

 
Sting, performing in Oslo, in December.
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Sting and Wayne Shorter are this year’s recipients of Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, which comes with a cash prize of one million Swedish krona (about $113,000).
The two are no stranger to awards: they have 26 Grammys between them. Both are expected to attend a gala to accept their prizes in Stockholm on June 15.
“As a composer, Sting has combined classic pop with virtuoso musicianship and an openness to all genres and sounds from around the world,” the award committee wrote in a statement. He released the album, “57th and 9th” last year, and is on a world tour.
Mr. Shorter, 83, a hugely influential jazz saxophonist over his storied career, played at the White House for 2016 International Jazz Day (Sting did, too), and appeared on the Norah Jones album “Day Breaks” last year. He has shows scheduled throughout this year. The Polar prize committee noted, “Without the musical explorations of Wayne Shorter, modern music would not have drilled so deep.”
Stig Anderson, the lyricist and manager for Abba, established the prize in 1989, aiming to “celebrate music in all its various forms.” Past recipients include Ray Charles, Elton John, Bob Dylan and Renée Fleming.
 

 
 

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Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize – The New York Times

Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/music/sting-and-wayne-shorter-win-polar-music-prize.html?mc_cid=8643f2f01d
 
Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize
By ANDREW R. CHOWFEB. 7, 2017

 
Sting, performing in Oslo, in December.
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Sting and Wayne Shorter are this year’s recipients of Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, which comes with a cash prize of one million Swedish krona (about $113,000).
The two are no stranger to awards: they have 26 Grammys between them. Both are expected to attend a gala to accept their prizes in Stockholm on June 15.
“As a composer, Sting has combined classic pop with virtuoso musicianship and an openness to all genres and sounds from around the world,” the award committee wrote in a statement. He released the album, “57th and 9th” last year, and is on a world tour.
Mr. Shorter, 83, a hugely influential jazz saxophonist over his storied career, played at the White House for 2016 International Jazz Day (Sting did, too), and appeared on the Norah Jones album “Day Breaks” last year. He has shows scheduled throughout this year. The Polar prize committee noted, “Without the musical explorations of Wayne Shorter, modern music would not have drilled so deep.”
Stig Anderson, the lyricist and manager for Abba, established the prize in 1989, aiming to “celebrate music in all its various forms.” Past recipients include Ray Charles, Elton John, Bob Dylan and Renée Fleming.
 

 
 

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Unheard of Instruments in the Saxophone Family – YouTube

Unheard of Instruments in the Saxophone Family – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-b6I1ihh2s
 
Dr. Paul Cohen shares with us his unique collection of historical saxophones that highlight the evolution of the instrument. 

For more information about Dr. Cohen and his collection check out his website at http://totheforepublishers.com

Also be sure to check out The Saxophone Standard, a full length educational video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE8c_…


 

 
 

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Unheard of Instruments in the Saxophone Family – YouTube

Unheard of Instruments in the Saxophone Family – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-b6I1ihh2s
 
Dr. Paul Cohen shares with us his unique collection of historical saxophones that highlight the evolution of the instrument. 

For more information about Dr. Cohen and his collection check out his website at http://totheforepublishers.com

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Herb Oscar Anderson, Crooning D.J. for WABC-AM, Dies at 88 – The New York Times

Herb Oscar Anderson, Crooning D.J. for WABC-AM, Dies at 88 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/nyregion/herb-oscar-anderson-obituary-wabc-disc-jockey-dead.html?mabReward=R1
 
Herb Oscar Anderson, Crooning D.J. for WABC-AM, Dies at 88
By RICHARD SANDOMIR  FEB. 1, 2017

Herb Oscar Anderson in 1957 with Carole Bennett before the start of his weekday radio show on the ABC Radio Network. Gary Wagner 
 
Herb Oscar Anderson, the morning D.J. for the New York Top 40 station WABC-AM during most of the 1960s, died on Sunday in Bennington, Vt., near Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where he had a home. He was 88.
 
The cause was kidney failure, said his son John James, an actor who played Jeff Colby on the prime-time soap opera “Dynasty.”
 
When Mr. Anderson arrived at WABC in 1960, the station was in the early stages of a battle for listeners with WMCA, WINS and WMGM. He was one of the station’s “Swingin’ 7” air personalities, a group that included Scott Muni and was known as the All Americans. But Mr. Anderson was a throwback in a changing music scene, a fan of the big band sound, not necessarily the rock ’n’ roll he was playing on a 50,000-watt station that reached well beyond the city limits.
 
“My father walked into his job at WABC wearing wingtips and a suit and left in wingtips and a suit,” Mr. James said.
 
As the station’s low-key “morning mayor,” Mr. Anderson had a mandate: to appeal to adults whose buying power was critical to advertisers, more than to the teenagers who were already tuning in. Each morning, his booming, melodic voice crooned his lyrics to his signature song, “Hello Again”:
“Hello again, here’s my best to you. Are your skies all gray? I hope they’re blue.”
 
He recorded that song, as he did a few others, and wrote lyrics to instrumentals by Nelson Riddle and Bert Kaempfert.
 
Mr. Anderson’s old-fashioned approach set him apart from other D.J.’s at the station, like the exuberant Bruce Morrow (a.k.a. Cousin Brucie), who courted teenagers. In effect, Mr. Anderson had said, there were two WABCs: one in the morning, and one for the rest of the day.
 
“We had to make money,” Mr. Anderson told MusicRadio77.com, a website devoted to the Top 40 legacy of the station, which switched to a talk format in 1982. “No question about it. I was for the housewife, mother and children. It was a combination that had to be done.”
 
An Interview With Herb Oscar Anderson (May 29, 2000) 
 
Steve Malzberg and Allan Sniffen interviewed Mr. Anderson on “WABC Rewound” Music Radio 77
 
Allan Sniffen, who runs MusicRadio77.com, said, “His job was to come in and sound like a grown-up, not like Cousin Brucie.”
 
Mr. Anderson left the station in early 1969 because he could not abide acid rock, he told Scott Benjamin for a profile on MusicRadio77.com. But Mr. James said that his father resigned because he believed that ABC, the owner of WABC, had reneged on a promise to give him a television talk show.
He would later host shows on the New York radio stations WOR and WHN in the 1970s.
 
Herbert Oscar Anderson was born on May 30, 1928, in South Beloit, Ill. His mother, the former Frieda Munson, a maid who was born in Sweden, placed Herb and her four other children in the Odd Fellows orphanage in Lincoln, Ill., after the deaths of two husbands left her too poor to raise them. He would later reunite with her.
 
Mr. Anderson’s radio career began in Janesville, Wis., and continued in Illinois, Florida and Iowa. He found success with a Top 40 format in the mid-1950s at WDGY in St. Paul, Minn., where he was known as 235 pounds of genial joviality.
 
After a brief stint in Chicago, he moved to New York in 1957. He hosted a morning radio show on WABC and a variety show on the ABC Radio Network where he sang with a live band.
 
He moved to WMCA in 1958 and returned to WABC in 1960.
 
“The battle helped both stations,” Mr. Anderson told MusicRadio77.com. “They were great battles, weren’t they?”
 
In addition to Mr. James, Mr. Anderson is survived by his second wife, Terry Kirkoff, a film editor; another son, Herb Oscar Anderson II; a daughter, Carla Anderson; and four grandchildren.
 
In recent years, he hosted a weekly radio show in Vero Beach, Fla., near his home on Hutchinson Island, on which he reminisced, played music and sang.
 
 

 
 

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Herb Oscar Anderson, Crooning D.J. for WABC-AM, Dies at 88 – The New York Times

Herb Oscar Anderson, Crooning D.J. for WABC-AM, Dies at 88 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/nyregion/herb-oscar-anderson-obituary-wabc-disc-jockey-dead.html?mabReward=R1
 
Herb Oscar Anderson, Crooning D.J. for WABC-AM, Dies at 88
By RICHARD SANDOMIR  FEB. 1, 2017

Herb Oscar Anderson in 1957 with Carole Bennett before the start of his weekday radio show on the ABC Radio Network. Gary Wagner 
 
Herb Oscar Anderson, the morning D.J. for the New York Top 40 station WABC-AM during most of the 1960s, died on Sunday in Bennington, Vt., near Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where he had a home. He was 88.
 
The cause was kidney failure, said his son John James, an actor who played Jeff Colby on the prime-time soap opera “Dynasty.”
 
When Mr. Anderson arrived at WABC in 1960, the station was in the early stages of a battle for listeners with WMCA, WINS and WMGM. He was one of the station’s “Swingin’ 7” air personalities, a group that included Scott Muni and was known as the All Americans. But Mr. Anderson was a throwback in a changing music scene, a fan of the big band sound, not necessarily the rock ’n’ roll he was playing on a 50,000-watt station that reached well beyond the city limits.
 
“My father walked into his job at WABC wearing wingtips and a suit and left in wingtips and a suit,” Mr. James said.
 
As the station’s low-key “morning mayor,” Mr. Anderson had a mandate: to appeal to adults whose buying power was critical to advertisers, more than to the teenagers who were already tuning in. Each morning, his booming, melodic voice crooned his lyrics to his signature song, “Hello Again”:
“Hello again, here’s my best to you. Are your skies all gray? I hope they’re blue.”
 
He recorded that song, as he did a few others, and wrote lyrics to instrumentals by Nelson Riddle and Bert Kaempfert.
 
Mr. Anderson’s old-fashioned approach set him apart from other D.J.’s at the station, like the exuberant Bruce Morrow (a.k.a. Cousin Brucie), who courted teenagers. In effect, Mr. Anderson had said, there were two WABCs: one in the morning, and one for the rest of the day.
 
“We had to make money,” Mr. Anderson told MusicRadio77.com, a website devoted to the Top 40 legacy of the station, which switched to a talk format in 1982. “No question about it. I was for the housewife, mother and children. It was a combination that had to be done.”
 
An Interview With Herb Oscar Anderson (May 29, 2000) 
 
Steve Malzberg and Allan Sniffen interviewed Mr. Anderson on “WABC Rewound” Music Radio 77
 
Allan Sniffen, who runs MusicRadio77.com, said, “His job was to come in and sound like a grown-up, not like Cousin Brucie.”
 
Mr. Anderson left the station in early 1969 because he could not abide acid rock, he told Scott Benjamin for a profile on MusicRadio77.com. But Mr. James said that his father resigned because he believed that ABC, the owner of WABC, had reneged on a promise to give him a television talk show.
He would later host shows on the New York radio stations WOR and WHN in the 1970s.
 
Herbert Oscar Anderson was born on May 30, 1928, in South Beloit, Ill. His mother, the former Frieda Munson, a maid who was born in Sweden, placed Herb and her four other children in the Odd Fellows orphanage in Lincoln, Ill., after the deaths of two husbands left her too poor to raise them. He would later reunite with her.
 
Mr. Anderson’s radio career began in Janesville, Wis., and continued in Illinois, Florida and Iowa. He found success with a Top 40 format in the mid-1950s at WDGY in St. Paul, Minn., where he was known as 235 pounds of genial joviality.
 
After a brief stint in Chicago, he moved to New York in 1957. He hosted a morning radio show on WABC and a variety show on the ABC Radio Network where he sang with a live band.
 
He moved to WMCA in 1958 and returned to WABC in 1960.
 
“The battle helped both stations,” Mr. Anderson told MusicRadio77.com. “They were great battles, weren’t they?”
 
In addition to Mr. James, Mr. Anderson is survived by his second wife, Terry Kirkoff, a film editor; another son, Herb Oscar Anderson II; a daughter, Carla Anderson; and four grandchildren.
 
In recent years, he hosted a weekly radio show in Vero Beach, Fla., near his home on Hutchinson Island, on which he reminisced, played music and sang.
 
 

 
 

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Music Director, Linda Yohn Announces Retirement Effective December 2017 | WEMU

Music Director, Linda Yohn Announces Retirement Effective December 2017 | WEMU

http://wemu.org/post/music-director-linda-yohn-announces-retirement-effective-december-2017#stream/0
 
Music Director, Linda Yohn Announces Retirement Effective December 2017
By EDITOR • FEB 6, 2017
89.1 Jazz with Linda Yohn
Linda Yohn in the 89.1 WEMU studio
COURTESY PHOTO 


 


For immediate release: 89.1, WEMU’s Linda Yohn, is hanging up the headphones and calling it a career after 30 years as music director at the NPR/Jazz station at Eastern Michigan University. Her last day on-air will be December 4, 2017, which will also mark the end of a year-long celebration of WEMU’s 40th anniversary of featuring a jazz format.
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Yohn began at WEMU in April of 1987, after stints at WKSU in Kent, OH, and a career as a jazz publicist in New York City.   She began as host of Café Du Jazz on weekday evenings but quickly moved into the morning jazz slot where she has been a mainstay at 9:00 a.m. for over 25 years.  During that time, she oversaw a massive growth in WEMU’s jazz audience and mentored countless on-air music staffers including current hosts Jessica Webster, Wendy Wright, Nik Thompson, and Daniel Long.  Yohn has been named National Jazz Programmer of the Year five out of the eight years she was nominated, was given the Duke Dubois national award for service, and last summer won the Willis Conover/Marian McPartland Award for Jazz Broadcasting from the Jazz Journalists Association.  She has worked tirelessly on behalf of jazz in thecommunity as a board member for the Southeast Michigan Jazz Association, as a panelist at numerous conferences and conventions, and with her stage presence as emcee at countless jazz shows that include the Detroit Jazz Festival, the Michigan Jazz Festival, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and many others.  Yohn’s dedication to jazz and the local community earned her a special award from former Michigan 54th District Representative, David Rutledge, as Ypsilanti’s Ambassador for Jazz.
 “Nobody has done more for jazz in southeast Michigan than Linda Yohn,” said WEMU’s General Manager, Molly Motherwell.  “While Linda is well known and beloved in our area, I don’t know how many know of her impact on the national industry as well, both as a broadcaster and through her relationships with musicians, record labels, promoters, and other industry professionals.  I don’t think there has been a jazz presenter in this area who hasn’t consulted with Linda before bringing in national acts because they know that she knows who is hot and who will draw.  Everybody who enjoys live jazz in this community owes her a debt of gratitude.”
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“This decision was not made lightly,” said Yohn.  “But it’s time.  I’ll miss working at WEMU and serving listeners with my heart and soul.  I have never felt so fulfilled and inspired by my work as I have at WEMU, thanks to our wonderful listeners and the incredible SE Michigan jazz community.”A search for Yohn’s successor will be announced at a later date.
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89.1, WEMU, is a listener-supported, NPR affiliate with a format of jazz, local news, and blues in addition to NPR news, information, and cultural programming.  The station broadcasts to an eight county area that includes all or part of Washtenaw, Wayne, Oakland, Livingston, Lenawee, Monroe, and Lucas (OH), streams live 24 hours a day at wemu.org, and has a free downloadable app for iPhone and Android. 
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Contact: Molly Motherwell (734) 487-2231  
 

 
 

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Music Director, Linda Yohn Announces Retirement Effective December 2017 | WEMU

Music Director, Linda Yohn Announces Retirement Effective December 2017 | WEMU

http://wemu.org/post/music-director-linda-yohn-announces-retirement-effective-december-2017#stream/0
 
Music Director, Linda Yohn Announces Retirement Effective December 2017
By EDITOR • FEB 6, 2017
89.1 Jazz with Linda Yohn
Linda Yohn in the 89.1 WEMU studio
COURTESY PHOTO 


 


For immediate release: 89.1, WEMU’s Linda Yohn, is hanging up the headphones and calling it a career after 30 years as music director at the NPR/Jazz station at Eastern Michigan University. Her last day on-air will be December 4, 2017, which will also mark the end of a year-long celebration of WEMU’s 40th anniversary of featuring a jazz format.
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Yohn began at WEMU in April of 1987, after stints at WKSU in Kent, OH, and a career as a jazz publicist in New York City.   She began as host of Café Du Jazz on weekday evenings but quickly moved into the morning jazz slot where she has been a mainstay at 9:00 a.m. for over 25 years.  During that time, she oversaw a massive growth in WEMU’s jazz audience and mentored countless on-air music staffers including current hosts Jessica Webster, Wendy Wright, Nik Thompson, and Daniel Long.  Yohn has been named National Jazz Programmer of the Year five out of the eight years she was nominated, was given the Duke Dubois national award for service, and last summer won the Willis Conover/Marian McPartland Award for Jazz Broadcasting from the Jazz Journalists Association.  She has worked tirelessly on behalf of jazz in thecommunity as a board member for the Southeast Michigan Jazz Association, as a panelist at numerous conferences and conventions, and with her stage presence as emcee at countless jazz shows that include the Detroit Jazz Festival, the Michigan Jazz Festival, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and many others.  Yohn’s dedication to jazz and the local community earned her a special award from former Michigan 54th District Representative, David Rutledge, as Ypsilanti’s Ambassador for Jazz.
 “Nobody has done more for jazz in southeast Michigan than Linda Yohn,” said WEMU’s General Manager, Molly Motherwell.  “While Linda is well known and beloved in our area, I don’t know how many know of her impact on the national industry as well, both as a broadcaster and through her relationships with musicians, record labels, promoters, and other industry professionals.  I don’t think there has been a jazz presenter in this area who hasn’t consulted with Linda before bringing in national acts because they know that she knows who is hot and who will draw.  Everybody who enjoys live jazz in this community owes her a debt of gratitude.”
break
“This decision was not made lightly,” said Yohn.  “But it’s time.  I’ll miss working at WEMU and serving listeners with my heart and soul.  I have never felt so fulfilled and inspired by my work as I have at WEMU, thanks to our wonderful listeners and the incredible SE Michigan jazz community.”A search for Yohn’s successor will be announced at a later date.
break
89.1, WEMU, is a listener-supported, NPR affiliate with a format of jazz, local news, and blues in addition to NPR news, information, and cultural programming.  The station broadcasts to an eight county area that includes all or part of Washtenaw, Wayne, Oakland, Livingston, Lenawee, Monroe, and Lucas (OH), streams live 24 hours a day at wemu.org, and has a free downloadable app for iPhone and Android. 
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Contact: Molly Motherwell (734) 487-2231  
 

 
 

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Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 – The New York Times

Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/irwin-corey-comedian-and-foremost-authority-dies-at-102.html?_r=0
 
Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102
By RON WERTHEIMERFEB. 7, 2017

Irwin Corey performing in 1966. ABC Photo Archives, via Getty Images
Irwin Corey, the cunningly befuddled comedian who spent more than 70 years perfecting his portrayal of “the world’s foremost authority,” died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102.
His death was confirmed by his son, Richard Corey.
Although he inhabited other characters in stage and film roles, Mr. Corey was best known as his alter ego, the professor of some unspecified discipline who could foment clouds of inspired nonsense.
Dressed in his trademark outfit — black swallowtail coat, string tie and sneakers — with his hair marching in several directions at once, Mr. Corey was a caricature of every windbag who ever emptied his lungs. He was also taking aim at everyone who did not share his unrepentant leftist’s view of the world.
Still, when he declared, “If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going,” who could disagree?
“What I do is deflate the coat of righteousness that people wrap themselves in,” he once said offstage, adding that his target was “the guy who gives his opinions as if they were handed down from the Mount.”
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No question was too simple that Mr. Corey couldn’t complicate it. His response to “Why do you wear tennis shoes?” was a classic example: “Actually, that is two questions. The first is ‘Why?’ This is a question that philosophers have been pondering for centuries. As for the second question, ‘Do you wear tennis shoes?,’ the answer is yes.”

 
Mr. Corey in 2004. Jim Cooper/Associated Press
Among his admirers was the critic Kenneth Tynan, who called Mr. Corey “Chaplin’s clown with a college education.”
Mr. Corey never wavered in his left-leaning political views. He was outspoken in his admiration for Fidel Castro, although he was glad to find a joke in United States tensions with Cuba. “What you have to do to prevent conflict with Cuba,” he said in 1970, “is to shove Florida up the Mississippi, where she’ll be 500 miles away.”
One of Mr. Corey’s best-remembered routines was staged not in a club or broadcast studio but at Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan, at the National Book Awards ceremony in 1974. That year the fiction prize was shared by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Thomas Pynchon. No one in the crowd had any idea what the reclusive Mr. Pynchon looked like, and when Mr. Corey arrived to accept the award for him (the novelist had approved the stunt), many people thought they were getting their first look at Mr. Pynchon.
They soon learned otherwise. Beginning his remarks, as he often did, “However,” Mr. Corey referred to the author as “Richard Python” and said, “Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.” He continued: “Marx, Groucho Marx, once said that religion is the opiate of the people. I say that when religion outlives its usefulness, then opium will be the opiate. Ah, that’s not a bad idea.”
The Times reported the next morning that Mr. Corey’s “series of bad jokes and mangled syntax” left “some people roaring with laughter and others perplexed.”
Irwin Corey was born Irwin Eli Cohen on July 29, 1914, in Brooklyn. Along with five of his siblings, he became a ward of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which released him to his own devices when he was 13. The future “professor” had one year of high school.
Irwin Corey still likes the spotlight after eight decades in comedy.
April 13, 2008. Photo by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »
Before drifting into performing in the late 1930s, he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps, becoming its boxing champion in the 112-pound class, then hanging up his gloves after he knocked an opponent out cold. He was also a button maker and an enthusiastic member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
In 1938 he was hired to help write and appear in the union’s musical show “Pins and Needles,” and he soon began to develop his signature comedy style of zany improvisation. (“I ad-lib it,” he explained. “I don’t need new material.”)
He appeared in the revue “New Faces of 1943” and in nightclubs like the Village Vanguard. The folk singer Richard Dyer-Bennet awarded Mr. Corey the rank of professor after hearing his fractured lecture on Shakespeare.
Mr. Corey and his wife, the former Frances Berman, lived for many years in Great Neck, on Long Island, and later in the East 30s in Manhattan. Frances Corey died in 2011. In addition to their son, Mr. Corey is survived by two grandsons and two great-grandchildren. His daughter, Margaret, died in 1997.
During World War II, Mr. Corey served briefly in the Army. He later said he had been discharged after about six months when an Army psychiatrist asked him if he was homosexual and he replied, “That’s none of your business.” He immediately resumed his civilian career.
Mr. Corey appeared in stage productions, including works by Molière and Chekhov, a U.S.O. tour of “Oklahoma!” (as the Persian peddler) and seven Broadway shows. He said he once played Jesus in Boston: “It was a piece of typecasting for a short Jewish atheist.”

 
Mr. Corey panhandling in 2011 for money to donate to Cuban charities. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
In 1974 he played Marlo Thomas’s father in Herb Gardner’s Broadway comedy “Thieves.” In his review in The New York Times, Clive Barnes called Mr. Corey “a clown of shining absurdity” and said he had “manic moments of near genius.” Reviewing Mr. Corey’s performance in a 2004 revival of “Sly Fox,” Ben Brantley wrote in The Times, “The nonagenarian Professor Irwin Corey makes a winningly precise art of being addled.”
His feature films included “How to Commit Marriage” (1969), starring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason; the hit comedy “Car Wash” (1976), whose cast also included Richard Pryor and George Carlin; and Woody Allen’s “Curse of the Jade Scorpion” (2001).
Mr. Corey perfected his portrayal of the professor in clubs like the hungry i in San Francisco and Le Ruban Bleu, Upstairs at the Downstairs and the Playboy Club in New York. On radio, his professor was a tutor to Edgar Bergen’s dummy Charlie McCarthy. He then made the transition to television, becoming a familiar figure alongside talk-show hosts from Steve Allen to David Letterman, even though some network executives were leery of his political views.
He kept performing into his 90s and beyond, and not always in typical show-business locales. As The Times reported in 2011, for many years he would stand in traffic on East 35th Street, near the Manhattan exit of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and a short walk from his home, almost every day, soliciting change from drivers. Some recognized him, but most apparently assumed he was just another homeless panhandler.
He said he donated whatever money he was given to a charity that buys medical supplies for children in Cuba. But that was not really the point.
“This is not about money,” Mr. Corey’s longtime agent, Irvin Arthur, told The Times. “For Irwin, this is an extension of his performing.”
He eventually became too frail to continue panhandling, but he remained in the public eye a while longer. In April 2014 he spoke at a screening of “Irwin & Fran,” a documentary feature about him and his wife, at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village. That summer he spoke at a party for his 100th birthday at the Actors Temple in Midtown, where the festivities included a statement from the Manhattan borough president, Gale Brewer, declaring July 29 Irwin Corey Day.
Even as his health declined, Mr. Corey’s spirit remained strong. As he himself put it more than once, “I feel more like I do now than when I first got here.”

 

 
 

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Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 – The New York Times

Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/irwin-corey-comedian-and-foremost-authority-dies-at-102.html?_r=0
 
Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102
By RON WERTHEIMERFEB. 7, 2017

Irwin Corey performing in 1966. ABC Photo Archives, via Getty Images
Irwin Corey, the cunningly befuddled comedian who spent more than 70 years perfecting his portrayal of “the world’s foremost authority,” died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102.
His death was confirmed by his son, Richard Corey.
Although he inhabited other characters in stage and film roles, Mr. Corey was best known as his alter ego, the professor of some unspecified discipline who could foment clouds of inspired nonsense.
Dressed in his trademark outfit — black swallowtail coat, string tie and sneakers — with his hair marching in several directions at once, Mr. Corey was a caricature of every windbag who ever emptied his lungs. He was also taking aim at everyone who did not share his unrepentant leftist’s view of the world.
Still, when he declared, “If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going,” who could disagree?
“What I do is deflate the coat of righteousness that people wrap themselves in,” he once said offstage, adding that his target was “the guy who gives his opinions as if they were handed down from the Mount.”
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No question was too simple that Mr. Corey couldn’t complicate it. His response to “Why do you wear tennis shoes?” was a classic example: “Actually, that is two questions. The first is ‘Why?’ This is a question that philosophers have been pondering for centuries. As for the second question, ‘Do you wear tennis shoes?,’ the answer is yes.”

 
Mr. Corey in 2004. Jim Cooper/Associated Press
Among his admirers was the critic Kenneth Tynan, who called Mr. Corey “Chaplin’s clown with a college education.”
Mr. Corey never wavered in his left-leaning political views. He was outspoken in his admiration for Fidel Castro, although he was glad to find a joke in United States tensions with Cuba. “What you have to do to prevent conflict with Cuba,” he said in 1970, “is to shove Florida up the Mississippi, where she’ll be 500 miles away.”
One of Mr. Corey’s best-remembered routines was staged not in a club or broadcast studio but at Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan, at the National Book Awards ceremony in 1974. That year the fiction prize was shared by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Thomas Pynchon. No one in the crowd had any idea what the reclusive Mr. Pynchon looked like, and when Mr. Corey arrived to accept the award for him (the novelist had approved the stunt), many people thought they were getting their first look at Mr. Pynchon.
They soon learned otherwise. Beginning his remarks, as he often did, “However,” Mr. Corey referred to the author as “Richard Python” and said, “Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.” He continued: “Marx, Groucho Marx, once said that religion is the opiate of the people. I say that when religion outlives its usefulness, then opium will be the opiate. Ah, that’s not a bad idea.”
The Times reported the next morning that Mr. Corey’s “series of bad jokes and mangled syntax” left “some people roaring with laughter and others perplexed.”
Irwin Corey was born Irwin Eli Cohen on July 29, 1914, in Brooklyn. Along with five of his siblings, he became a ward of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, which released him to his own devices when he was 13. The future “professor” had one year of high school.
Irwin Corey still likes the spotlight after eight decades in comedy.
April 13, 2008. Photo by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »
Before drifting into performing in the late 1930s, he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps, becoming its boxing champion in the 112-pound class, then hanging up his gloves after he knocked an opponent out cold. He was also a button maker and an enthusiastic member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
In 1938 he was hired to help write and appear in the union’s musical show “Pins and Needles,” and he soon began to develop his signature comedy style of zany improvisation. (“I ad-lib it,” he explained. “I don’t need new material.”)
He appeared in the revue “New Faces of 1943” and in nightclubs like the Village Vanguard. The folk singer Richard Dyer-Bennet awarded Mr. Corey the rank of professor after hearing his fractured lecture on Shakespeare.
Mr. Corey and his wife, the former Frances Berman, lived for many years in Great Neck, on Long Island, and later in the East 30s in Manhattan. Frances Corey died in 2011. In addition to their son, Mr. Corey is survived by two grandsons and two great-grandchildren. His daughter, Margaret, died in 1997.
During World War II, Mr. Corey served briefly in the Army. He later said he had been discharged after about six months when an Army psychiatrist asked him if he was homosexual and he replied, “That’s none of your business.” He immediately resumed his civilian career.
Mr. Corey appeared in stage productions, including works by Molière and Chekhov, a U.S.O. tour of “Oklahoma!” (as the Persian peddler) and seven Broadway shows. He said he once played Jesus in Boston: “It was a piece of typecasting for a short Jewish atheist.”

 
Mr. Corey panhandling in 2011 for money to donate to Cuban charities. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
In 1974 he played Marlo Thomas’s father in Herb Gardner’s Broadway comedy “Thieves.” In his review in The New York Times, Clive Barnes called Mr. Corey “a clown of shining absurdity” and said he had “manic moments of near genius.” Reviewing Mr. Corey’s performance in a 2004 revival of “Sly Fox,” Ben Brantley wrote in The Times, “The nonagenarian Professor Irwin Corey makes a winningly precise art of being addled.”
His feature films included “How to Commit Marriage” (1969), starring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason; the hit comedy “Car Wash” (1976), whose cast also included Richard Pryor and George Carlin; and Woody Allen’s “Curse of the Jade Scorpion” (2001).
Mr. Corey perfected his portrayal of the professor in clubs like the hungry i in San Francisco and Le Ruban Bleu, Upstairs at the Downstairs and the Playboy Club in New York. On radio, his professor was a tutor to Edgar Bergen’s dummy Charlie McCarthy. He then made the transition to television, becoming a familiar figure alongside talk-show hosts from Steve Allen to David Letterman, even though some network executives were leery of his political views.
He kept performing into his 90s and beyond, and not always in typical show-business locales. As The Times reported in 2011, for many years he would stand in traffic on East 35th Street, near the Manhattan exit of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and a short walk from his home, almost every day, soliciting change from drivers. Some recognized him, but most apparently assumed he was just another homeless panhandler.
He said he donated whatever money he was given to a charity that buys medical supplies for children in Cuba. But that was not really the point.
“This is not about money,” Mr. Corey’s longtime agent, Irvin Arthur, told The Times. “For Irwin, this is an extension of his performing.”
He eventually became too frail to continue panhandling, but he remained in the public eye a while longer. In April 2014 he spoke at a screening of “Irwin & Fran,” a documentary feature about him and his wife, at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village. That summer he spoke at a party for his 100th birthday at the Actors Temple in Midtown, where the festivities included a statement from the Manhattan borough president, Gale Brewer, declaring July 29 Irwin Corey Day.
Even as his health declined, Mr. Corey’s spirit remained strong. As he himself put it more than once, “I feel more like I do now than when I first got here.”

 

 
 

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