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...black writer in recent years. Mda's The Whale Caller, published in August, is a much subtler tale. The Whale Caller (his real name is ignored) has retired from itinerant laboring to Hermanus, a pleasant tourist mecca on the Cape, where he spends his days blowing a kelp horn to attract whales for his own amusement. Then Saluni, the alluring, tempestuous town drunk, moves into his shack, curbs her boozing and tries to civilize his slovenly bachelor ways. But she soon grows jealous of a migrating female that the Whale Caller spends hours serenading. "That stupid fish has castrated...
Surveying the room, Gates turned his attention towards Cornel R. West ’74, who stared down at the room through his black horn-rimmed glasses from the framed, blown-up cover of a 1996 Emerge magazine. Gates asked someone to help him take it down...
...DIED. SHIRLEY HORN, 71, smoky-voiced jazz diva famous for her elegant, achingly slow renditions of songs that she said "painted a picture"; in Washington. After getting her start opening for Miles Davis, Horn made records and played clubs around her native Washington, then largely retreated to spend time with her family. A shining comeback in the late 1980s led to numerous honors, a Grammy, and a popular 1991 album You Won't Forget Me, featuring a cameo from Davis, her lifelong champion, recorded shortly before he died...
DIED. SHIRLEY HORN, 71, smoky-voiced jazz diva famous for her elegant, achingly slow renditions of songs that she said "painted a picture"; in Washington. After getting her start opening for Miles Davis, Horn made records and played clubs around her native Washington, then largely retreated to family life. A shining comeback in the late 1980s, when she signed with Verve, led to numerous honors, a Grammy and a popular 1991 album, You Won't Forget Me, that featured a cameo from Davis, her lifelong champion, recorded shortly before he died...
...album’s fourth track, “Far From Home,” is a spirited trek down memory lane. After an energetic horn intro, Young launches into verses that recall the family sing-a-longs of his youth and his first excursions into Nashville, or “Music City” as he names...