Word: musician
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...Carmichaels are a middle-class black family living in Brooklyn in the early '70s. The father, Woody (Delroy Lindo), is a jazz musician who doesn't get much work because he only wants to play music he respects. He is easygoing and indulgent of his children, four boys and a girl, Troy (played by the adorable and spirited Zelda Harris in her first major role). The mother, Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), is hardworking and hard-nosed. She loves the kids but believes in discipline and denial...
Born in New Orleans, Blanchard grew up saturated in music. His father was an insurance man and aspiring opera singer, and his early career paralleled that of Wynton Marsalis, another hometown musician. Blanchard studied composition and classical and jazz trumpet at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, then moved to New York City, where he landed one of jazz's most enviable jobs: trumpeter in the Art Blakey Band...
This is a low business, exploiting a musician's notoriety and an audience's star lust. It has reached a nadir of sorts with Backbeat, a homoerotic paean to Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), the fifth Beatle. Or maybe the sixth, if you count pre-Ringo drummer Pete Best and leave out George Martin and Murray...
...movie she portrays the unsophisticated and naive Anaa Mae, who eagerly allows herself to be taken under Ike's wing. As the film progresses, Bassett flawlessly displays Turner's blossoming performances-consciousness and ultimately her development into a self-confident woman who knows her true worth as both a musician and a human being. At different stages in her life, Turner is supposed to look and act like completely different people; Bassett meets this challenge...
Cobain almost did join rock's long list of dreadful mistakes in early March when he unwittingly mixed prescription tranquilizers with some celebratory champagne. After Cobain awoke form his coma, his doctor confirmed that the musician "came close to death." Yet, what would his death have meant as a drug-induced fatality? A suicide? An accident? More likely, with Cobain's ambiguous lyrics, a mystery...