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DIED. JOE HENDERSON, 64, lyrical modern-jazz saxophonist and composer; of heart failure; in San Francisco. Henderson, who started out in his high school band, made his recording debut in 1963 on trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas, now a Blue Note classic. He went on to play with pianists Horace Silver and Herbie Hancock, and recorded a string of his own successful albums. In the 1990s, Henderson won four Grammy awards, two for best jazz instrumental solo for Lush Life and Miles Ahead...
...speak often of the Americas as una gran familia, a great family. We are, after all, related through our experiences in this hemisphere, by our painstaking struggle to build shared institutions and by our shared vision of a prosperous and democratic future. Like members of any family, the peoples and countries of the hemisphere face challenges that will surely test us. And like members of a true family, it is the depth of our commitment to common values and purposes that gives us strength and makes it possible for us to go forward and to develop and prosper together...
...Growing up, they listened to everything from ABBA (of course) to jazz, and their own discography reflects that eclecticism. They've done pop ballads (Because of You, for 98 Degrees) but they've also gone Latin (Una Noche, also for 98 Degrees) and sampled rhythm and blues (Gotta Tell You, co-written with Irish sensation Samantha Mumba...
...Alberto reads popular magazines, complex novels and hometown news in whatever spare time he finds. "I like W," he declared. "You figure out what styles arecoming out." He recently finished Cronica de Una Muerta Anunciada (Chronicle of A Death Foretold), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "He's Columbian," Luis explained, "but heis lived in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. He told Fidel he was going to help, and he did. Fidel adores and admires him. He started a school of cinema there and has a house." Many stores in the area sell publications from El Salvador. "I keep up with the sports...