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...Pekar: What happened was that in 1962 I met Robert Crumb. He moved to Cleveland, and initially we had in common jazz record collecting. He showed me some of the stuff he was working on including this graphic novel called "The Big Yum Yum Book." I was very impressed with [the book] and it started to dawn on me that you could do anything in comics that you could do in other mediums. And I started to wonder, 'Why hasn't this been done before? Why haven't they done realistic comics?' It's just because people had no confidence...
...Master of Jazz Potpourri Musician Herbie Mann, who died in July [MILESTONES, July 14], fused the music of different cultures to create new kinds of contemporary jazz. We described the talents of this versatile flutist in a Dec. 18, 1964, report...
...This week [Herbie Mann] was voted the top musician in his field for the eighth consecutive year in the Down Beat magazine readers' poll... With a canny eye on the box office, Mann has attracted a devoted following from the 'lay and fringe public' with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof...
...GOOD THIEF. The guardian of a young woman plans to steal rare paintings instead of cash. As an aging thief, the heist will be that last big crime he commits with his multicultural crew. Director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, The Butcher Boy) adds jazz undertones to this remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob Le Flambeur. The Good Thief screens Wednesday, August...
DIED. ELISABETH WELCH, 99, American-born expatriate cabaret and jazz singer, adored by Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Paris cafe society; outside London. A hit on the London stage, she later took her mellow voice to New York City; she made a splash in Porter's New Yorkers by singing Love for Sale, a song about prostitution. In the 1980s she won acclaim for her one-woman show A Time to Start Living and the musical revue Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood...