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...dozen Grammys and artfully guided recordings by musicians who included Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler and, most recently, Norah Jones; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. After his production Good Lovin' became a No. 1 hit for the Young Rascals in 1966, the Turkish-born jazz lover arranged and co-produced two of the Queen of Soul's defining albums--I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Lady Soul--and later suggested that Barry Gibb use the falsetto that came to epitomize the Bee Gees' 1970s disco sound in such hits as Stayin' Alive...
...dozen Grammys and artfully guided recordings by musicians who included Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler and, most recently, Norah Jones; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. After his production Good Lovin' became a No. 1 hit for the Young Rascals in 1966, the Turkish-born jazz lover arranged and co-produced two of the Queen of Soul's defining albums?I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Lady Soul?and later suggested that Barry Gibb use the falsetto that came to epitomize the Bee Gees' 1970s disco sound in such hits as Stayin' Alive...
...attentive to the arcana of the Beatles' biography. In their youth they were fans of BBC Radio's The Goon Show, whose stars, including Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, all recorded comedy albums produced by George Martin. It was his connection to the Goons, not his work on jazz albums, that first endeared Martin to John and the others. Another number in the show, "Eleanor Rigby," which takes place in the wreckage of postwar Liverpool, has a cratered, post-nuclear look reminiscent of Milligan's play The Bed Sitting Room, which was filmed by Richard Lester, who directed the Beatles...
DIED. Hilton Ruiz, 54, classical prodigy turned versatile Latin jazz and bebop pianist who collaborated with Joe Henderson, Tito Puente and Charles Mingus, recorded more than a dozen albums, including Steppin' into Beauty and Enchantment, and saw his elegant, polyrhythmic compositions featured in such films as American Beauty and Crimes and Misdemeanors; after having been found last month with severe head injuries outside a bar in New Orleans' French Quarter; in New Orleans, where he had been working on a project to benefit hurricane victims...
...Lying in the shadow of the Forbidden City, the Icehouse, tel: (86-10) 6522 1389, is[an error occurred while processing this directive] today the Chinese capital's best jazz and blues bar. But it gets its name from the fact that it held ice for the imperial family's exclusive use during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Every winter, ice was collected from the city moat at Dongzhimen and hauled to the Icehouse, filling the 400-sq-m interior. The walls were sufficiently impervious to the elements for the ice to remain there, unthawed, all year round. But while...