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...Ella Fitzgerald The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books (Verve). Porter, Ellington, Berlin, the Gershwins: Fitzgerald honored them all and set herself up not only as a great jazz vocalist but as a trusted custodian of some of American pop's richest treasure. This elegantly turned-out set collects all eight Fitzgerald songbooks for the first time. Singly they were remarkable. Together they're a monument...
...Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum). Combining upscale jazz and proletarian hip hop, Digable Planets has brought two sides of the black experience together, uniting buppies and b-boys from Howard University to Howard Beach...
Reiner's cabaret sideline didn't start until she was 65. As a teenager, she haunted the jazz clubs of New York City. Billie Holiday once encouraged her to try singing and gave her the name of an agent. Reiner didn't think she was "special enough" to be a singer. Instead, she became a painter so she could work at home while raising children. In 1980 Anne Bancroft, a friend, gave her a small role in the film Fatso. "I took some classes in acting. I studied with Lee Strasberg and other people," Reiner says. "But I realized what...
DIED. LEN DRESSLAR, 80, booming voice behind advertising's leaf-clad Jolly Green Giant, the Rice Krispies' Snap and other pitchmen; in Palm Springs, Calif. The jazz baritone often joked that his tuneful rendition of the vegetable-peddling giant's "Ho, ho, ho!" put his two daughters through college...
Steven K. Ridgill ’06 set the tone for the night with a reading by Louis Armstrong, after which the Harvard Jazz Quintet kicked off the show’s performances with their own rendition of John Coltrane’s “Moment’s Notice...