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Newcomers to Broadway usually need a veteran hand to guide them along. Harry Connick Jr., like Mel Brooks, has grabbed hold of the best. The jazz singer, pianist and sometime actor is making his theater debut as the composer and lyricist for the new musical Thou Shalt Not. The show's director--and the reason it's the fall's most eagerly anticipated musical--is Broadway's current miracle maker, director-choreographer Susan Stroman, who won a Tony for staging Brooks' The Producers. It's not hard to see what attracted Connick to the show: it's an adaptation...
...have died in the past six weeks. Music Club has released John Lee Hooker...Is Hip: His Greatest Hits by the legendary Mississippi blues guitarist. Country guitar god Chet Atkins' new release, A Master and His Music, is on the BMG/RCA label. No postmortem releases by trumpeter and Latin-jazz innovator Chico O'Farrill have been announced, but his greatest stuff is on Cuban Blues: Chico O'Farrill Sessions, a 1996 two-disc release from Universal/Verve...
...performed in a blunt, bracing style full of sharp corners and spicy chords and often startlingly reminiscent of his no-nonsense horn playing. What took him so long? You don't need to be a full-time pianist to revel in the part-time playing of this switch-hitting jazz master...
...could use up all the space here (and in the rest of this issue) simply listing the musicians--black and white, jazz and R. and B., rock and beyond--whom Ertegun discovered and set free as prime mover of Atlantic Records. Just as impressive is the tale of a son of the Turkish ambassador to the U.S. who fell in love with black music and co-founded a label that helped Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin redefine American pop. The terrific photos in this handsome, 8-lb. tome induce a vivid synesthesia: looking at Ertegun's artists...
...journalist and former Fascist renowned for his controversial views; in Milan. In 1943 he was jailed by the Fascists and narrowly escaped execution for criticizing the regime in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War. DIED. MILTON GABLER, 90, music producer who founded Commodore Records, the first U.S. independent jazz label; in New York City. He worked with jazz greats Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. DIED. EUDORA WELTY, 92, American author hailed as a master of the short story; in Jackson, Mississippi. Welty's incisive tales, inspired by her observations of Southern life, earned her numerous awards, including...