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...No sooner had Davis and his sidemen opened new vistas with their experiments in what came to be known as “modal” jazz than Ornette Coleman, a Texan steeped in the rural blues, announced a revolution of his...
...At one of them, Birdland in midtown Manhattan, she saw many of that era’s greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Lester Young....
...During its heyday, Baldwin’s Saint-Paul home was a sanctuary for artists — especially black Americans in the twilight of their lives, from Miles Davis to Josephine Baker....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...If you can look beyond the blacked-up Sammy Davis Jr impersonation, you may still see its appeal. But the landscape has changed. In 1977, Britain had just two broadcasters: the BBC and ITV....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...Additional reporting by Charles Clover in Beijing...
...In 1996, John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president, chose Cumberland Island as the location for his wedding to Carolyn Bessette....
...A second phase, consisting of 13 townhouses, has been designed by architects Paul Davis & Partners....
...The flow of Coleman compositions continued unabated and, in 1965, Coleman, now playing with the classical bassist Dave Izenson and drummer Charles Moffett, signed to Blue Note....
...The names Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop don’t come up too often these days but the Rat Pack’s fourth wall-vaulting onstage explorations of the destructive potential of the male...
...As an insider, Rumsfeld was still a regular guy who took his kids to Redskins games, befriended Sammy Davis Jr and was a fan of Elvis Presley....
...His mother had left a number of paintings, including a pastel drawing by Charles Courtney Curran, which he wanted to donate....
...Sikhtian Charles Baillie Paul Graves John J. McGuire Jr. Gavin Simms Philip R. Berlinski E. Glenn Hadden Milton R. Millman III Marshall Smith Robert A. Berry Jonathan J. Hall Christopher Milner John D....
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