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☆ Kids made fun of my unusual name growing up. It shaped my personality, and I've embraced it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Dixie Gillaspie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Growing up in Dixie, surrounded by more common names like Mary and Jane, made me who I am. Mary, Jane, or Ann would do nicely. AdvertisementIn the company of my peers a name like Dixie meant being teased, even tormented, with nowhere to hide. AdvertisementI've embraced my unusual nameKids weren't the only ones to think my name was an invitation to innuendo and amusement. AdvertisementI have to wonder if I would have developed a milder personality if Dad had his way and I'd ended up a Mary, Jane, or Ann.

Persons: Mary, Jane, David, Nobody, didn't, Ann, Dixie Diane, Dixie, Hey Dix, giggles, Richard, it's, I've, Badfinger, Dizzy Gillespie, Dad, I'd, Marys, Janes Locations: Dixie, Jennifers

☆ Quincy Jones, musical titan and entertainment icon, dead at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the Jones family said in the statement. American jazz musician, arranger, and composer Quincy Jones (left) works with singer and actor Frank Sinatra on a soundstage, 1964. His family eventually moved to Seattle, Washington, and Jones began taking lessons from famed horn player Clark Terry. Musician, composer and producer Quincy Jones poses for a portrait in 1981 in Los Angeles. In 1967 he married Swedish model Ulla Andersson, and they had two children, Martina and Quincy Jones III, before divorcing in 1974.

Persons: Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Jones, ”, John Dominis, Michael Jackson’s, Clark Terry, Lionel Hampton, Gladys, “, ” Jones, ‘, We’ll, ’ ” Jones, Schillinger, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Holland, Michael Ochs, Leslie Gore’s, Peggy Lee, Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Jim Henson, Kevin Mazur, Bel, Will Smith, Jeri Caldwell, Jolie, Ulla Andersson, Quincy Jones III, Peggy Lipton, Rashida Jones, Kidada Jones, Rachel, Carol Reynolds, Kenya Kinski, Nastassja Kinski, Rolling Stone, Louie Armstrong, Mr, Sinatra Organizations: CNN, Hampton, National Endowment, Arts, Berklee College of Music, Michael Ochs Archives, Mercury Records, Party, M Records, Qwest, Jim Henson Studios Locations: Bel Air , California, American, Chicago, Seattle , Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, Haiti, Hollywood , California, Swedish, Kenya

☆ 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Wayne Shorter
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Marcus J. Moore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

This month we feature Wayne Shorter, the iconoclastic composer and tenor saxophonist whose work with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Weather Report and through his own solo discography has influenced generations of like-minded visionaries to push the boundaries of jazz. As a member of the quintet, Shorter once said, “it wasn’t the bish-bash, sock-’em-dead routine we had with Blakey, with every solo a climax. “All of us wrote some songs, I wrote a couple of things myself, but the main writer: Wayne,” Hancock told me over the phone recently. But most of the things we recorded were written by Wayne.” The quintet broke up in 1968; Shorter worked with Davis until 1970. In recent years, even though they’d been collaborators for several decades, Hancock and Shorter became best friends.

Persons: Wayne Shorter, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, it’s, Miles, Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams —, Davis “, ”, Ian Carr, Blakey, ” Shorter, Wayne, ” Hancock, ‘, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Davis, Joe Zawinul, Hancock, they’d

☆ Amiri at Paris Fashion Week: How this fashion designer is reinventing American cool
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Alice Pfeiffer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Paris CNN —Few cities have been so adamantly idealized, mythologized and captured on film and in photographs as Los Angeles and Paris. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesThese inspirations translated into pieces in faded, sun-washed teal, blue, gray and vintage-inspired knits. Some models wore Amiri brooches resembling music notes. Designer Mike Amiri of the eponymous Californian brand at the finale of his Paris show. OConnor/Arroyo/AFF-USA/ShutterstockK-pop star Sunwoo (seen here at the brand's June 20, 2024 show in Paris) has been recently announced as an ambassador for Amiri.

Persons: “ Jardin des Plantes ”, Mike Amiri, Yussef Dayes, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Amiri, dégradé, Pascal Le Segretain, Ryan, Amiri’s, Kay, Paris Fernandes, ”, Kim Sunwoo, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz —, Ryan Gosling, Omar Sy, Lena Waithe, Barry Keoghan, James Sleaford, “, Arroyo, Shutterstock, Saint Tropez Organizations: Paris CNN, “ Jardin des Plantes, City, South, AFF, Getty Locations: Angeles, Paris, “ Jardin, Hollywood, London, Paris’s, Montaigne, Venice Beach, South Korean, France, OConnor, Dubai, Saint

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quincy Jones, who once embarked on an international diplomatic tour with jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, will receive the U.S. Department of State's inaugural Peace Through Music Award. A ceremony honoring the 28-time Grammy winning producer, musician and arranger will be held Wednesday night and as part of the launch of the State Department's new Global Music Diplomacy Initiative. The tour was part of a Cold War program to spotlight American music and culture and counteract similar efforts by the Soviet Union. “You’re going to see a long-standing partnership between the Academy and the State Department,” Mason said in an interview. We have no more powerful tools in our diplomatic toolkit, and I look forward to seeing – and listening to – the results of this initiative.”The Global Music Diplomacy Initiative was developed following the 2022 Promoting Peace, Education, and Cultural Exchange (PEACE) through Music Diplomacy Act.

Persons: — Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Jones, Antony Blinken, Harvey Mason, Dave Grohl, Mickey Guyton, Herbie Hancock, Jamie Barton, GAYLE, Christopher Jackson, LADAMA, Aimee Mann, Rakim, Armani White, Gillespie, Michael Jackson’s, Oscar, “ You’re, ” Mason, “, ”, Roosevelt, Bruce Springsteen, “ I’ve, ” Blinken Organizations: ANGELES, U.S . Department, State's, State, Music Diplomacy Initiative, Recording Academy, American, U.S . State Department, State Department, Fulbright, Arts and Science, Academy, Inter, American Affairs, AP, Education, Cultural Exchange, Diplomacy Locations: Southern Europe, South Asia, Soviet Union, East Berlin

☆ Clarence Avant, Quiet Force in Black Entertainment, Dies at 92
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Neil Genzlinger | More About Neil Genzlinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Avant, born in a segregated hospital in North Carolina and educated only through the ninth grade, moved easily in the high-powered world of entertainment, helping to establish the idea that Black culture and consumers were forces to be reckoned with. He started out managing a nightclub in Newark in the late 1950s and moved on to representing some of the artists he met there. Joe Glaser, a high-powered agent who handled Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and many other top acts, took Mr. Avant under his wing; perhaps, the documentary suggested, Mr. Glaser, who was white, thought it would be advantageous to have a Black man representing some of his Black clients. In any case, Mr. Avant was soon handling artists including the jazz organist Jimmy Smith and traveling in rarefied circles. Though he knew nothing about the movie business, Mr. Avant worked his brand of magic on the West Coast: Mr. Schifrin has to date been nominated for six Oscars.

Persons: Clarence Avant, Bill Withers, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, ” —, Avant, Joe Glaser, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Glaser, Jimmy Smith, Lalo Schifrin, Dizzy Gillespie, Schifrin Locations: Los Angeles, North Carolina, Newark, Argentine, West

☆ Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Bacharach was both an innovator and throwback, and his career seemed to run parallel to the rock era. He was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for "Promises, Promises" and a three-time Oscar winner. Fellow songwriter Sammy Cahn liked to joke that the smiling, wavy-haired Bacharach was the first composer he ever knew who didn't look like a dentist. Bacharach was essentially a pop composer, but his songs became hits for country artists (Marty Robbins), rhythm and blues performers (Chuck Jackson), soul (Franklin, Luther Vandross) and synth-pop (Naked Eyes). He's everybody's composer ... Burt Bacharach!"

☆ ‘Louis Armstrong: Black & Blues’ Review: Satchmo’s Tangled Legacy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Like Ernest Hemingway locating the birth of modern American literature in “ Huckleberry Finn ,” Miles Davis found the original incarnation of modern American music—jazz—in Louis Armstrong . “You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis hasn’t played,” said Davis. But like many of Armstrong’s practicing black acolytes, Davis was also embarrassed by the man’s persona. Too much smiling, too much “minstrelsy.” Dizzy Gillespie called him a “plantation character.” The image of Armstrong the musical revolutionary was long at war with the image of Armstrong the Uncle Tom. The trumpeter (and singer, lest anyone forget) died in 1971, and it’s hard to imagine a more defining of a generational divide than an awareness of Louis Armstrong, aka Satchmo, aka Pops.

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