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...elaborate stories that Chicago Mob leader Giancana helped deliver Illinois to the Democrats in 1960. He says the support came largely by helping get out the vote among the rank-and-file in Mob-controlled unions and through "campaign contributions from the corrupt Teamsters Union pension fund." G. Robert Blakey, a Mafia expert and former federal prosecutor, confirmed to TIME what he told Hersh--that FBI bugs picked up Mob conversations about the deal. "The substance of it was that money went to the campaign through [Joe Kennedy]," says Blakey. "There was an expectation [by the mobsters that] life would...
...elder brother Branford is a saxophonist; and one of his younger brothers, Delfeayo, is a trombone player. In New Orleans, a city as overflowing with jazz players as a bubbling pot of gumbo, Wynton was an early standout, a musical prodigy. As a teenager he played with drummer Art Blakey. Before Marsalis turned 22, he recorded a classical album that won a Grammy...
...Elvin Jones Jazz Machine graced Cambridge with its presence the first weekend in February. Following the example of the late drummers Art Blakey and Art Taylor, Jones has turned the drum stool, into a throne from which the imperiously leads a rotating band of young burners under the rubric of The Jazz Machine. While the roster of Jazz Machine veterans is not quite sostar-studded as that of Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Jones has cultivated a consistent level of intensity, swing and sheer volume in his various bands. Even though its members are not very well known, the current edition...
...early career paralleled that of Wynton Marsalis, another hometown musician. Blanchard studied composition and classical and jazz trumpet at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, then moved to New York City, where he landed one of jazz's most enviable jobs: trumpeter in the Art Blakey Band...
Their lawyer, however, is more upbeat. "I lost Round No. 1 on economics," says Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey, who argued before the court. "But I'll win Round No. 2 on innocence." In order to make her newly revived case, Clayton must prove that the pro-lifers engaged twice or more in crimes covered by RICO, and that they did so in connection with the defendants. She claims abundant evidence to this effect. For his part, Blakey brandishes a letter from the explosives chief at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stating that "there...