Word: musician
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DIED. HAROLD C. FOX, 86, Big Band musician and Chicago clothing retailer who was largely responsible for the creation of the wide-shouldered, high-waisted zoot suit, a symbol of the boogie-woogie era; of cancer; in Siesta Key, Florida...
...composer of Take the "A" Train and Satin Doll and of orchestral suites like Such Sweet Thunder was Duke Ellington. But most people are wrong. The composer, or in many cases the co-composer, of those and dozens of other hallmarks of the Ellington sound was a dapper, diminutive musicians' musician named Billy Strayhorn. From 1938 until his death of cancer in 1967, Strayhorn was Ellington's artistic alter ego--bolstered and publicly praised by the Duke but working always in his shadow, less an employee than a member of his extended household...
...through Braille. He was a quick study. When Roberts was 22, Marsalis asked him to join his band; and at 25 he won first prize in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. His subsequent career as a recording artist also met with early success--he is the first musician to have had his first three albums reach No. 1 on Billboard's traditional-jazz chart...
...Louisiana. He was standing outside the music building when a group of students approached him and yelled "Kill him!" The group laughed it off, but for Capello the incident sparked a concern with social identity that took him on an interesting detour from his goal of becoming a professional musician...
...sophomore year, he enrolled part-time at Southern University, where he played double-bass and studied jazz in a predominantly African-American environment. His experiences there-- playing in all-black ensembles, feeling sometimes that problems of race inhibited the formation of elementary social relationships, and developing technically as a musician--posed more intellectual questions for him than they answered. He had long harbored a more general interest in social theory, in different culturally-induced cognitive perceptions of music, in aesthetics, in physics and in philosophy...