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Together--and often working with the brilliant arranging skills of Nelson Riddle--Fitzgerald and Granz then went on to songbooks for the likes of Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, the great composers of the great era of American popular music. Those songbooks became the foundation of a legacy, the single source for a musical standard that Fitzgerald, as much as anyone, helped make timeless. "Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz,'" she recalled. "I thought that was so cute. As long as they...
...achievement and summer jobs, which is crucial for success in both graduate school admissions and recruiting, has risen to new heights every year. Also, the increased influx into concentrations such as economics, applied mathematics and computer science may be attributed to these factors. John Boynton, a senior consultant at Mercer Management Consulting, once summarized this development concisely: "When I was an undergraduate at Harvard in the mid-eighties, Harvard students knew essentially nothing about business and the real world. Nowadays, some of the students I interview know more about the field than...
...POST-CAROLINA ANTHEM?] I Wanna Be Around (to Pick Up the Pieces) Tony Bennett's 1963 hit, penned by Johnny Mercer...
...DIED. MERCER ELLINGTON, 76, musician and the son of jazz great Duke Ellington; of heart failure; in Copenhagen. Mercer led his father's orchestra after Duke's 1974 death and was music director of Sophisticated Ladies, the 1981 Broadway celebration of the elder Ellington's music...
...Bryson or Winter decided to omit the photos on the grounds of obscenity, they would have been within their rights. But instead they decided that the photos cited in the Mercer article were relevant to their students' education...