Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet musician has been an outspoken defender of artistic freedom in the USSR, and he sheltered novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn prior to the author's exile...
Died. Tyree Glenn, 61, veteran jazz musician equally proficient on trombone and vibraphone; after a brief illness; in Englewood, N.J. A mainstay of Louis Armstrong's All-Stars, Glenn also played with such men as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter. His distinctive trombone style was once described as being "like a great blues singer, like Bill Broonzy in brass...
...later years, the Duke lived a life that for a jazz musician at least, was almost monastic. If wrestling with a new work, he would write all night in his apartment on Manhattan's West Side. Parties? "I just don't have time to be a social cat." Since the death of Strayhorn in 1967, Ellington's closest intimates were his son Mercer, who played trumpet in the band and served as road manager, and his sister Ruth, president of Ellington's publishing firm Tempo Music. Ellington's marriage to Mercer's mother...
...What song did Nixon pick for the wedding of Julie and David? Who is Julie's and David's favorite musician...
...Harder They Come. Those who are reluctant to spend their weekend's music money on a club performance by a singer or musician they have never heard before should consider seeing the return engagement of the Orson Welles Theater's greatest triumph. The Harder They Come is Perry Henzell's film about a poor young black man in Jamaica, a would-be rock star, driven to dealing in drugs by the island's only record company, which refused to pay him fairly for his hit songs. An exciting and beautifully photographed attempt at a film about exploitation and freedom...