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...Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...
...wasn't long before Blades joined the roster of young Latin musicians at Fania records, the leading salsa label. In 1978 he and trombonist Willie Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...
...DIED. Fania Fénelon, 75, singer in the all-female inmate orchestra at the Auschwitz death camp, who recounted her ordeal in the memoir Playing for Time; of a heart attack; in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Fénelon's 1976 book was made into a television movie four years later, with Vanessa Redgrave portraying Fénelon despite objections because of pro-Palestine Liberation Organization statements...
...about a working-class mother of three who with her Catholic conscience whether to have an abortion, what would you choose? Right: Vanessa Redgrave. And if you were English-speaking drama's greatest actress - if you played Mary Queen of Scots and Isa Duncan and Jean Brodie and Fania Fenelon - and you were offered the part a Nashville housewife, what would you do? Right: you'd take...
...Fords sprouted an extra head with the formation of a new agency called Fame. Its president is Jerry Masucci, 41, a onetime New York City policeman who made a fortune with the Fania record company. The Fords own one-third of Fame and handle the financial operations. Fame's first famous enlistee was Esme. Echoing the Casablancas philosophy, Lawyer Richard Talmadge, another part owner of Fame (and the Fords' attorney), notes that a model is "more than a pretty face selling a product." Says he: "A model is negotiated for now like an actor in a film series...