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...risk-taking and exuberance, eluding easy categorization. That's fitting for a man who remains the only performer to win Grammy Awards in three different styles: pop, R&B and jazz. "He works the cracks between all of those genres," says San Francisco Chronicle pop-music critic Joel Selvin. But most critics agree that Jarreau's roots, ultimately, lie in jazz. "What makes him unique is the jazz current - with its inherent sense of swing and improvisational magic - that courses through everything he does, whether it's pop, R&B or whatever," says Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman...
...Blue Skies," 1926. This slightly jazzy, plenty-perky number earned a #1 for Ben Selvin and registered five other hits in 1927; the same year it was the first song performed in the first talkie, Jolson?s "The Jazz Singer." In 1946, the year the Berlin oldies musical "Blue Skies" was released, the title tune returned to the pop charts, twice: #8 with Count Basie and #9 with Benny Goodman. Finally, Willie Nelson made the song a #1 country hit in 1978 - 52 years after it was written...
DIED. Benjamin B. Selvin, 82, long-playing bandleader and record company executive, who made or produced more discs-some 9,000 titles-than anyone else; in Roslyn, N.Y. Dardanella, a heavy-beat foxtrot that Selvin recorded in 1919, was the first disc to sell 1 million copies. He helped launch many stars, overseeing Bing Crosby's first solo recording; during one instrumental break, Selvin recalled, "I suggested that Crosby whistle. He's been whistling ever since...
Music for Woodwind Quintet; Norman Letvin, Carol Rand, Frank Selvin, Michael Tabak, Cyrus Stewart, and Carl Schialkjer; Eliot Library...
...Selvin's words, Section 26 is an official guarantee to whites: "If you refuse to sell your home to Negroes, the state will do nothing to you." In short, he said, "Racial discrimination in housing is declared to be an inalienable right." But "California cannot secede from the 14th Amendment," he insisted. "If the state encourages, it acts; if it acts, it's responsible." Section 26, he went on to say, clearly violates the meaning of the 14th Amendment "as written in the blood of the Civil War, the concept that once and for all, Negroes have...