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BORN. To Sarah Menikides Starkey, 25, receptionist, and her husband since January, Zak Starkey, 19, pop drummer following in the footsteps of his famous father Ringo Starr: a daughter, their first child; in Ascot, England. Name: Tatia Jayne. Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz. Ringo, 45, thus becomes the first grandfather Beatle...
DIED. Jo Jones, 73, innovative jazz drummer known as "the man who plays like the wind" for his new lighter, looser rhythms, dynamic shadings, adroit accents and inventive ad libs, who buoyed the Count Basie band from 1935 to '48, toured with such greats as Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson and led his own small combos, which often included other Basie alumni; of pneumonia; in New York City. He was often confused with "Philly" Joe Jones, 62, drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet in the 1950s and an innovator in the transition from the swing era to the "cool" jazz...
There is a lot of first-string instrumental talent on Empire Burlesque: Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones present and Mick Taylor of the Stones past; Drummer Jim Keltner; and most especially the drum and bass team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, who give the record a funky, rumpled-up, island-inflected, rhythmic drive. With all this professional sheen, Empire Burlesque is still startling, an unexpected flash-forward. Like a sudden cut in a film, this record is disorienting at first -- Where did this come from? What's going on? -- but so well judged and timed that after...
ENGAGED. Carly Simon, 39, prolific pop singer-songwriter (her 13th album, Spoiled Girl, is scheduled for release next month); and Russ Kunkel, 36, rock drummer. The two met when he was playing backup for Simon's ex-husband, Folk Balladeer James Taylor...
...very clear, cold view of her strengths and weaknesses, and those of the wide world too. She got her first training as a dancer (she won a scholarship in dance at the University of Michigan, but she stayed only 1 1/2 years). She became a fairly good rock drummer and guitarist during her knockabout years as a musician in New York City, then turned to rock singing because she realized she wasn't going anywhere in the dance world. She says that she might do another rock tour, if her manager Freddy DeMann "puts a gun to my head...