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ELLA FITZGERALD CELEBRATES HER 75TH birthday this month, and it ought to be a state occasion. The received wisdom is that there has been no better jazz singer since Billie Holiday, but the trouble with such accolades is that they tend to become academic. A good introduction to the vibrancy, perpetual immediacy and -- bet on it -- the greatness of the birthday girl is Ella Fitzgerald First Lady of Song (Verve), a three-CD anthology from her peak years, the late '40s through the mid-'60s. There are 51 songs, 20 previously unavailable on CD and seven never released before, including...
...long ago they had a party. A poster near Au Bon Pain (presumably placed there illegally) read "Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution. Saturday, November 7." (Imperial Russia used the old-style Julian calendar, so the "October" Revolution actually occurred in November...
...side from the aforementioned locals and some diehard ex-Communists in Russia, practically no one noticed the 75th anniversary of the coup which for seven decades gave the Bolsheviks and their progeny control of the world's largest country. My core class on the Russian Revolution joylessly began its midterm 75 years to the hour after the coup got underway. Almost no one there even sensed the timing...
Those are pretty American events, so it might be an unfair to expect Americans to notice this supposedly Russian event. However, Americans probably should have been more aware of the 75th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup. Of all 20th century events, none had more profound long-range consequences...
...Cosby's routines and performing them so well at assemblies that when classmates heard the actual recordings they joked that Cosby was stealing Crystal's material. The three brothers, including Joel, the oldest, who teaches at the high school they all attended, did the old routines at a surprise 75th birthday party for their mother back in their Long Beach living room...