Wednesday, December 4, 2013

DownBeat Magazine

Somewhere in the background, by the piano in the living room, Lennie Hayton sat with coffee in hand, filling the air with that pregnant, Van Dyked Lennie Hayton brand of dignified silence. In the smaller music room Lena, quiet and conservative in the …  
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The question “Whatever became of Louis Jordan?” may seem relevant or ridiculous, depending on where you live.
“Some people haven’t kept track,” Jordan said, “because for the last several years I’ve been stuck in the same places. I work about ei …  
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Poncho Sanchez follows his heart. His heart has guided him over the past 20-plus years to the point where he’s a royalty figure in Latin jazz. The charismatic conguero’s band plays large clubs, throws special concerts in nice halls and works the fest …  
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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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