Hints and tips:
...Of all her various muses, Janis Joplin haunted Vicuña’s imagination the hardest, popping up as an alter ego....
...His mentor John Cage did much the same for music....
...As I said earlier this week, my father-in-law recently passed away, and listened to Scott Joplin in his last days....
...And for an unorthodox way to take your leave, try this selection by the legendary British disc jockey John Peel....
...Instead the sketchy piece gave us John Selya as a magician mastermind skulking about in a voluminous black coat and fedora pulled low, like Eros in Ashton’s ballet Sylvia, minus the charm....
...On 1974’s New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Cohen’s song “Chelsea Hotel #2” described being given oral sex by Janis Joplin in an “unmade bed”....
...He liked to say that he and Janis Joplin were the only two people ever to get out of there (see Carolee Schneemann’s story below)....
...Independently, but not coincidentally, this was the time too, when something big happened to American art, the moment when, in the critic Leo Steinberg’s perfect phrase, painters such as Jasper Johns and...
...The Plea reads like an idiosyncratic cross between Elmore Leonard and John Grisham, but bursts with its own individual flavour....
...Joplin, son of a slave-born labourer, one of six kids in a Texan shack, still did, and won. How hard can it be? Hard....
...All told, said John Doak, Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner, losses to the industry could well top those that arose from another devastating twister that struck Joplin, Missouri, two years ago....
...When switched on, a Chopin nocturne or a ragtime by Joplin springs to sound. Acceptable or not? I cannot think of anything more unacceptable....
...Film-maker John Waters favours their plaid suits, though the demographic seemed to be a bit younger with a very discerning eye....
...Or maybe they were just not old enough to appreciate Janis Joplin. Bill Emmott is author of ‘Good Italy, Bad Italy’ (Yale University Press)...
...The anthology opens with Dick Hyman’s 1975 reading of Scott Joplin’s written composition “Maple Leaf Rag”, first published in 1899, and Bunk Johnson’s 1945 recreation of the New Orleans marching band “In...
..., John Lennon....
...Alongside Foo Fighters he has a number of side projects (including supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, with Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones); a documentary about his band shot by Oscar-winning director James...
...Add in McCoy Tyner’s work with John Coltrane – A Love Supreme will do nicely – and you have the foundations of what’s going on today. ‘L’Histoire du Piano Jazz’, 25 CDs, Le Chant du Monde....
...Accompanied by John Sanborn’s video projections, nine of those works were introduced last weekend....
...That summer, thousands gathered at the Woodstock music festival to listen to Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and the Grateful Dead....
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