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...School of Business, and he continues to speak to business groups and university students. "I tell them that failure is part of the learning process," Peterman says. "If you're afraid to take a risk and make a mistake, you'll never create anything. It was only F. Scott Fitzgerald who said there were no second acts in American lives...
...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...
Prosecutor Jim FitzGerald finds such speculation "inflammatory" and not relevant to the court's goals regarding Oakley. He says the order by Banales is too narrowly drafted to be of much use to other prosecutors and is, in any case, a weapon against intentional dereliction, not a "financial litmus test" for parenthood. "What it really means," he says, is "if you have a kid, you have to pay support to your best ability and not just blow...
...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...