Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What's your wife's name?" Duke Ellington asked the man who was standing next to the piano. Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, the French ambassador to the U.S., answered, "Yanie." "Well, then," said the 74-year-old musician, "this tune will be called Yanie." He played a few bars for the crowd that had gathered in Manhattan's French consulate to see Ellington presented with the French Legion of Honor-the first to go to a jazz musician. The ambassador answered back on the piano with a few bars of Ellington's Mood Indigo...
...favorite pastimes, eating, even during intermissions. Aside from his steady girl friend, a Manhattan oboist, he has no organized nonmusical interests except the Navajo rugs and dinosaur bones that he collects for his apartment overlooking Central Park. Says he: "I feel there is enough scheduling in a musician's life that I try not to regulate the other things...
...piano so-lo concert at Carnegie Hall brought with it a different mood and audience, and put jazz in an altogether different perspective. To some, playing Carnegie is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a musician, and the older more sophisticated audience, as well as the musicians, were more dignified and restrained than their younger counterparts. The evening was dedicated to the late Art Tatum. Nine pianists, including special guest star Eubie Blake, took their respective turns at the piano...
...words, "taken his work home with him." "Hi, Mrs. Blume," said the work, sulking against the bedroom door, and Nina walked out. There was a quick, acrimonious divorce. Blume reveled briefly in the freedoms of bachelorhood, but turned possessive and desperate when Nina started keeping company with an itinerant musician named Elmo (Kris Kristofferson). Blume, of course, did everything he could to bust them up and reinstate himself...
Benny Goodman, L.H.D., musician. A tiny reed, a long black stick, a steady stream of manmade wind, and loads of God-given musical talent...