Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand. Ella is 46 now. Countless other singers have entered and left the scene during the span of Ella's career. A British magazine recently conducted a poll to determine the second best female singer; it was understood that the first was Ella. As a true jazz musician, she has never sung a song twice the same way. She still makes her old classics like How High the Moon sound fresh and new, and in recent years she has reached out to include anthologies of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin...
...Shankar is India's most famed traditional musician. In the past half-dozen years, through a series of recordings and globe-girdling tours, Shankar has proved to jazz fans that his improvisational flights have an exciting kinship to modern jazz. Joy, Eroticism. Part of the appeal is the extraordinary range of sounds that can be coaxed out of the awkward- looking sitar, from deep guttural sighs to piercing cries. Fashioned 700 years ago, the sitar has six or seven playing strings, 19 "sympathetic" resonating strings, so sensitive that they must be retuned while being played, and two bulbous gourds...
...ominous cloud remained. There is a threat that the musician's union will call a strike on Nov. 1 if contract demands are not met. With no easy solution in sight, there is a very real possibility that the curtain may ring down on the Met before it is really...
Pierre was born in San Francisco on June 14, 1925. His father, a New York-born mining engineer and a devoted amateur musician, died in a 1941 auto crash. His mother, daughter of a minor French politician-journalist, was and remains, in her sixties, an effervescent, amiable busybody with a penchant for supporting liberal causes. She now lives in Carmel, Calif., enjoys nothing more than regaling reporters with clinical details regarding the problems she had nursing little Pierre...
...helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also, of course, a brilliant musician, frequently playing his harp in serious concerts and always using it as a soothing counterpoint to his impish movie imagery...