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...ah’s”) he mentioned that he used to be part of Boston’s once vibrant jazz scene and even wrote a song about the Mystic River. It was from these beginnings that he started to play with the likes of Mongo Santamaria, Stan Getz and Miles Davis. Moving on to assemble many famed groups (including Circle, Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, the Akoustic Band and Origin) and having played with nearly every jazz great of the modern era (from Herbie Hancock to Gary Burton), Corea’s career reads like a jazz...
...DIED. MONGO SANTAMARIA, 80, Cuban-born percussionist who fused American jazz, funk and R. and B. with Afro-Cuban sounds in such standards as Afro Blue, made famous by John Coltrane, and a popular 1963 rendition of Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man; following a stroke; in Miami. A veteran of the Tito Puente Orchestra, Santamaria recorded albums ranging from salsa and contemporary soul to congo-driven percussion and chanting...
...during a forbidding journey that begins in Istanbul and then carries him through bleak Russia, bleaker Kazakhstan and into the finality of Mon-golia, a swept land that "made the sky ... seem crowded and fussy." Inspired by what he perceives as the Arcadian freedom of the nomads?the word Mongo-lian, he writes, "evokes the scent of grass and of fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name is Khan. Those he encounters along the way are sure...
...with fake calf muscles, but many of the body-distorting items in this exhibition are recent fashion misstatements. Categorized by anatomy--feet, waist, chest--this show is most surprising not when comparing Victorian support garments to the 2000 Issey Miyake bustier (above) but in its cross-cultural references. The Mongo women of Zaire, for example, wore a belt that looks like the tail of a Playboy Bunny...
...legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin' Joe in the 1975 "Thrilla' in Manila" bout against Muhammad Ali. DIED. ALEXANDRE BYIDI-AWALA, 69, one of Africa's best-known authors; in Douala, Cameroon. Under the nom de plume Mongo Beti, he wrote novels and essays denouncing colonization and its effects on African societies. Beti's most popular work, The Poor Christ of Bomba, was published in 1956. DIED. NIE MINZHI, 71, longtime activist and founder in 1998 of the outlawed China Democracy Party; after a stroke in a reform...