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Mingus, Carter's senior, was one of the '60s bassists who brought the bass into maturity as a jazz instrument, pioneering its use for improvisation, rather than solely rhythm. Mingus remains the most famous of these bassists, and is one of the few bass players now receiving acclaim for original composition...
Saxophonist Grover Washington will be playing at Paul's Mall Sunday thru Wednesday. Washington's pieces tend toward the funky; and while some of his songs seem uninspired, a few of his compositions--including "Mister Magic"--have gained critical and popular acclaim...
...from Paul Robeson's 1958 autobiography, goes a long way toward explaining what drove and inspired this richly talented, complex man. He is now remembered by many as a sort of martyr-hero, this one-time darling of the pre-War theater and concert world who spurned wealth and acclaim abroad to return home in the early 1940s and take up the grueling, uphill fight for racial equality and justice in his native America. But here, at 60, Robeson is thinking back to his childhood; to what it was to grow up in lily-white, aristocratic Princeton, New Jersey...
...film, which won critical acclaim for its chillingly detached view of the 1950s, will play...
...been humbled by madness-an experience he documented in Life Studies (1959)-but had survived to become America's most distinguished contemporary poet. When Lowell died last week of a heart attack in a New York City taxi at the age of 60, he was enjoying the acclaim that greeted his last book...