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DIED. Joseph ("Big Joe") Turner, 74, Kansas City, Mo.-born blues "shouter" of huge girth (300 lbs.) and voice, whose long career and 200 record albums reflected black music's migration into cities in the 1930s, its influence on jazz in the '40s and its transformation into rhythm and blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
DIED. Harold Arlen, 81, popular composer with a distinctively bluesy, jazz-based style who created some of America's most durable and cherished songs, ranging from the bubbling Get Happy, his first hit, in 1929, to the sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk...
...Park with George” and explored his feminine side in two of the past four Hasty Pudding Shows as Lilah Kedog and Pocahotness. Lowe’s musical career at Harvard included a stint with the Veritones and guest performances with the Harvard Pops Orchestra in everything from jazz to pop to classical music. “I think he likes just being in front of people,” says Michael T. Drake ’08, drummer for “Tommy and the Tigers...
Gillespie spent her college years as a member of Mainly Jazz and City Step, and also choreographed and stage-managed a number of shows around campus. This summer, she also interned with the Irish Modern Dance Theater in Dublin...
...early 1990s, Maxwell was introduced to classical and jazz composer Ornette Coleman, with whom she felt she could connect musically...