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Joe Sample, Iconic Jazz Pianist & Composer, Is Dead at 75 | The Jazz Line - News
Joe Sample, the critically acclaimed pianist and composer that spent more than five decades creating awe-inspiring music that transcended genres and inspired countless musicians, died on Friday, September 12 in his hometown of Houston, TX. He was 75.
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Joe Sample, Iconic Jazz Pianist & Composer, Is Dead at 75 | The Jazz Line - News
Friday, September 12, 2014
Jazz Arranger Gerald Wilson Dies At 96 : NPR
Bandleader, composer and arranger Gerald Wilson died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. Wilson's career stretched from the swing era of the 1930s into the 21st century.
Jazz Arranger Gerald Wilson Dies At 96 : NPR
Jazz Arranger Gerald Wilson Dies At 96 : NPR
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Jazz Pianist, Composer Horace Silver Dies At 85 : The Two-Way : NPR
One of the truly greats of modern jazz is gone. His compositions and recordings will last forever.
Jazz Pianist, Composer Horace Silver Dies At 85 : The Two-Way : NPR
Jazz Pianist, Composer Horace Silver Dies At 85 : The Two-Way : NPR
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Jazz Articles: 1966 Coltrane Concert to Have 1st Official Release - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles
John Coltrane’s Nov. 11, 1966 concert at Philadelphia’s Temple University will be released officially for the first time on Sept. 23—Trane’s 88th birthday—by Impulse!/Resonance Records. The recently discovered tapes, here titled Offering: Live At Temple University, will be available in both two-CD and two-LP configurations. The band accompanying Coltrane on the date included his wife Alice Coltrane on piano plus Pharoah Sanders (reeds and flute), Rashied Ali (drums) and Sonny Johnson (bass).
Jazz Articles: 1966 Coltrane Concert to Have 1st Official Release - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles
Jazz Articles: 1966 Coltrane Concert to Have 1st Official Release - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles
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Amiri Baraka's Legacy Both Controversial And Achingly Beautiful : NPR
Amiri Baraka's Legacy Both Controversial And Achingly Beautiful : NPR
Amiri Baraka was a complex brilliant but somewhat bitter man. Was he an anti-semite. Yes, many of his poems clearly demonstrate this. Did he believe he was one? No, I know this from personal conversations with him. His talent was matched by his bitterness over oppression. We shared a love for jazz. My politics were far too conservative for him. I rejected communism in high school after reading Richard Wright's the Outsider. Black Cultural Nationalism, which he exposed when I first encountered his writings had some attractions but clearly was nihilistic at it's core. It was a pseudo religious cult birthed out of a justified anger but limited by it's tribalism. Barack never lost his love for Alan Ginsburg, the great beat poet.
Baraka's love for Ginsburg, who was born Jewish and adopted Buddhism proves the truism that an anti-semite, a racist, a homophobe or any other bigot can still have friends and care about people from the group they despise. In this sense despite his obvious talent Amiri Baraka's life is a cautionary lesson in human frailty.
John H. Armwood