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krj
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Musical Obituaries
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Nov 25 21:22 UTC 2001 |
Continued from item 63 in the old music conference (item:music2,63)
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krj
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Nov 25 21:25 UTC 2001 |
Today's news reports the death of Norman Granz, 83. Granz' most important
work was the development of the Verve jazz label, which made many of the
key recordings of Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald. After he sold Verve
to a conglomerate, in the 1970s or so he started the Pablo label, which
was still active when I got into jazz. Pablo had lots of late small-group
recordings with Basie, and Duke Ellington, and still more
Ella Fitzgerald.
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mcnally
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response 2 of 106:
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Nov 25 22:00 UTC 2001 |
I'm not a big jazz fan, but Verve seems to have been quite an
important label during its heyday..
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krj
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Nov 30 16:58 UTC 2001 |
By now everyone who has looked at a news web site probably has
learned that George Harrison is dead. (The inner grump says:
so much for this summer's vigorous denials of how sick Harrison was...)
I dug out the chintzy BEST OF GEORGE HARRISON cd that Capitol/EMI put
out some years ago: seven of his Beatles songs, and just six songs
from his early solo career. So we had a little memorial listening party
on the drive to work this morning. That compilation lacks my
favorite Harrison Beatles song, a single B-side called "Old Brown
Shoe" which is on the PAST MASTERS v.2 set. I also need to dig out
the Travelling Wilburys discs.
Harrison's fall from commercial favor is kind of surprising;
IIRC, several of his solo albums were never released on CD and
most seem currently out of print. (I'll have to dust off the
turntable if I want to hear "33 1/3" which was highly regarded
among my friends when it was released.) Maybe Capitol can put
together a nice tombstone set, a 2-cd compilation including *all*
of Harrison's Beatles recordings, and a more generous selection
of his solo work including the CLOUD NINE singles.
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bruin
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response 4 of 106:
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Nov 30 19:48 UTC 2001 |
For more discussion and rememberance of George Harrison, please go to
the Music Conference, item 59.
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richard
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response 5 of 106:
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Dec 1 04:05 UTC 2001 |
Of course George Harrison's best friend was fellow guitar god Eric Clapton,
and there is the famous story how how they were both in love with the same
woman. She married Harrison. Clapton went on a drug binge and wrote
a song about his heartbreak over losing her, that of course being "LAYLA"
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tpryan
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response 6 of 106:
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Dec 1 15:57 UTC 2001 |
Harrison knew and married Patty Boyd before both meet Clapton.
With Olivia, I think Harrison got the best of deal of Patty being
stolen from him.
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krj
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response 7 of 106:
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Dec 18 03:10 UTC 2001 |
The Guardian reports the death of Stuart Anderson, the (former?)
leader of the band Big Country. He was found dead in a hotel in
Hawaii. Age, 43.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,620182,00.html
and that leads to a number of other links.
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