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...selling and most influential jazz recordings of all time. Drummer Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving performer from the celebrated album, which also featured jazz legends John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and Bill Evans. Now 80, Cobb continues recording and is currently touring the world through January with his band to mark the anniversary. He spoke with TIME about Kind of Blue's enduring impact and his decades of performing among the greats...
...were some of the musicians that influenced you as you grew up in Washington? In my teens, I used to listen to Billy Eckstine's band. He had all the great players - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, anyone you can mention probably went through that band. The drummer was Art Blakey. When I was still at home and 18 years old, I had the opportunity to play with Billie Holiday. She had a pianist who was going to college in Washington, and he formed a little quartet when she came to town...
...officials such as Fontaine hope that zinc becomes so standard that it will be "like having Band-Aids at home." A second medical breakthrough should also help. At least one-third of all diarrhea deaths among young children are caused by the rotavirus, which infects the cells lining the small intestine and causes gastroenteritis. In June, the WHO approved the first rotavirus vaccine for global use. The vaccine, which in trials in Latin America, Europe and the U.S. cut rotavirus infections by 85%, could someday be part of routine vaccination programs for children, along with those for polio, measles...
Instead of stanching the blood, the Newhouse family, which owns Advance - a group that includes more than 20 daily newspapers across the country - is using Ann Arbor as a lab subject to see if it might hurt less to tear the Band-Aid off quickly. Fixed costs such as paper, printing and delivery have been drastically reduced. From a staff of 316 at the News in May 2008, AnnArbor.com has a full-time staff of approximately 60, about 35 of them "content creators" (reporters) - plus some 80 from the "preferred blogging community," the majority unpaid - according to AnnArbor.com president...
...your book, you describe the Big Bang theory as having "the feeling of something held together with a Band...