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DIED. BENNY CARTER, 95, versatile jazz arranger, songwriter and bandleader regarded as one of the three modern masters of the alto sax (with Johnny Hodges and Charlie Parker); in Los Angeles. Idolized by peers for his clean, lilting, meticulous style, he was less famous in the U.S. than fellow bandleaders Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller--all of whom flocked to him for arrangements. The author of such hits as Only Trust Your Heart and the novelty tune Cow Cow Boogie, Carter turned his focus to Hollywood in the early 1940s, arranging and composing for films like...
...Inspired in part by the music they made, I put my fledgling career as a jazz saxophonist on hold and headed with my girlfriend to experience Havana firsthand. Before long I was playing with El Septeto Tipico de la Habana, a talented and remarkably underpaid group of musicians who played weeknights at la Casa de Amistad (The House of Friendship). The casa was a mansion that had been nationalized to become a cultural institute and was now hosting Puerto Rican socialists on solidarity junkets, Cuban black marketeers and bureaucrats, and the occasional stray tourist...
...DIED. HERBIE MANN, 73, pioneering jazz flutist whose experimentation in diverse musical genres won him listeners while alienating jazz purists; in Pecos, New Mexico. Mann helped popularize Brazilian music before venturing forth into the realms of disco, reggae and klezmer...
...DIED. BARRY WHITE, 58, moody, mountainous singer known as the "Black Walrus of Love" whose libidinous baritone and concupiscent lyrics inspired ardor on divans and backseats through the 1970s; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. White took the bawdy jazz ballad and applied a lush varnish of soul to produce such hits as Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe and You're the First, the Last, My Everything. White was rediscovered by younger generations and in 2000 won his first two Grammys for the song Staying Power...
...Since the market started in 1979, it has maintained a rather idealistic, handmade ethos?make it, bake it, grow it, design it?enshrining one-off originality in everything on offer. That goes for entertainment, too: there are Australian bush poetry recitals, didgeridoo players, jazz and folk bands, street theater and even camel rides. The Noosa Heads hinterland is a popular area with those seeking an alternative lifestyle, and the market?which is patronized by up to 10,000 bargain hunters each Saturday?tilts happily away from the mainstream, fusing contemporary culture with traditional rural life in a charming hybrid...