Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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Metamorphosis: Abbey Lincoln
Published 9/14/1961
“One day I looked up, and I saw that they had wiped off my face. I didn’t recognize me at all. I was neither fish nor fowl—me nor them. I was really nothing. Right then I decided to walk away,” so said Anna Marie Woolridge, who has been known p …  
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Quiet as it’s kept, Houston Person is among the most steadily employed players on the jazz scene.
“We haven’t been off for the last three years,” he says, without a trace of smugness. “Working with a trio (organist Jimmy Watson, who’s been with …  
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From outward appearances, Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden might not seem to have a lot in common. Guitarist Pat (b. 1954) has a bushel of hair and a tan that won’t quit. Bassist Charlie (b. 1937) is pale, with closely cropped hair. But closer examinati …  
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“My kid brother is nuts!” —Musician Charlie Palmieri, from the cover of younger brother Eddie’s first LP.
Above all, Eddie Palmieri is nuts about music, specifically the marvelous Cuban music which made Havana of the ’30s–’50 …  
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