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At 85, Barbara Cook Joins the Supremes

Posted on 05/17/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | PoliticsWhere to hear some great music in the nation’s capital? If you’re a fan of orchestral music, opera, jazz or musical theater, there’s The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Should you prefer a more intimate venue, there’s Blues Alley. But would you ever think of the U.S. Supreme Court? Highly doubtful, to say the least. As it turns out, however, the court’s nine justices aren’t so completely consumed with weighty matters that they can’t take an occasional …

Dave Brubeck: 5 Little-Known Facts About the ‘Take Five’ Jazz Pianist

Posted on 12/5/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyA 1954 cover story in Time magazine described Dave Brubeck as “a wigging cat with a far-out wail,” in a cringe-worthy attempt to approximate the hep lingo of the jazz aficionados who crowded into his performances in the smoky bohemian nightclubs of the day. But audiences flocked to see Brubeck at Carnegie Hall and other highbrow settings, too. Brubeck, who died at age 92 on Dec. 4 in Connecticut, was one of the biggest stars in the history of jazz. His Dave …

Mat Domber: The Lawyer-Turned-Record Producer Who Became a Jazz Preservationist

Posted on 09/21/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyThe history of jazz, that signature American art form, is replete with musicians — from Kid Ory to Ornette Coleman — who’ve dared to improvise and tinker with melody and time signatures, and who’ve continually reinvented the nature of music itself. But there have been other jazz heroes whose big contributions weren’t made in playing the music, but in listening to it and working to give wider audiences a chance to hear it, too. In the mid- to late 1950s, …