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...label; in New York City. Gabler ran the Commodore Music Shop, widely celebrated as New York City's most comprehensive jazz record store and a hangout for fans and musicians. In the 1930s Gabler began recording such artists as Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee and paired Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald for the first time on vinyl. In 1954 Gabler produced that seminal rock-'n'-roll tune, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock...
...after she had been in New York City for almost 10 years, the Mississippi woman known as Cassandra Wilson made a recording titled Blue Skies and set herself ahead of all other jazz singers, except for the longtime giants Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter. With a sensuality too purely adult and far too lyrical to be confused with either the mush or the vulgarity that defines too much popular singing, Wilson remakes standard songs as though none of the lessons laid down by the greats have been lost...
Monheit grew up on Long Island, N.Y., the child of musicians who discovered her perfect pitch when she was in grade school, and the student of teachers quickly nonplussed by a nine-year-old who wanted to talk about Ella Fitzgerald. At the Manhattan School of Music she fell under the tutelage of singer/arranger Peter Eldridge, who helped her shine her already polished skills...
Despite the mid-season loss to Trinity, the parity between the two teams was evident. Carlin Wing, Katie Gregory, Kristin Wadwha and Ella Witcher all won their individual matches, thriving under highly emotional and competitive conditions. Although the sold-out crowd at the Murr Center's Barnaby Courts would go home disappointed that day, the Crimson's confidence was not shaken...
...preserve his own hold on power. DIED. MORRIS ("MOE") KOFFMAN, 72, flutist, saxophonist and Canadian jazz icon best known for his catchy flute tune Swinging Shepherd Blues, which went to the top of the pop charts in 1958 and was subsequently recorded by more than 100 artists including Ella Fitzgerald; in Toronto. Over a five-decade career, Koffman released more than 30 albums and performed with jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie. He was awarded the Order of Canada...