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Frank Dawson Chicago Jazz Guitarist/Educator Dies
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Chicago area jazz guitarist and music educator Frank Dawson passed away early on Thursday June 3rd, 2010 in his early 60s. He had been diagnosed with advanced spinal cancer just a few days prior to his death... He originally hailed from Pittsburgh, PA, and began studying music with Victor Lawrence while beginning to play professionally during his high school years. Following graduation from highschool, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy attending the USN School of Music. Frank continued to study ...
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Marvin Isley, Bassist of Isley Bros. Dies
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All About Jazz
Marvin Isley, bassist for the Isley Bros. during their hit-making funk resurgence of the '70s, died June 6 in Chicago. He was 56, and had suffered from diabetes since the late '90s.
With his guitarist sibling, Ernie, Isley joined elder brothers Ronald, Rudolph and O'Kelly in 1969; the Cincinnati-vocal act had already scored such indelible R&B hits as “Twist and Shout" and “This Old Heart of Mine." At the T-Neck label, the Isley's vaulted back to the top of the ...
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Ali Ollie Woodson, Singer in Temptations Dies
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Michael Ricci
Ali Ollie Woodson, who led the Motown quintet the Temptations in the 1980s and 90s and helped restore it to hit-making glory with songs like Treat Her Like a Lady, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 58.
The Temptations: Theo Peoples, Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Ali-Ollie Woodson.
The cause was cancer, said Billy Wilson, president of the Motown Alumni Association. He said Mr. Woodsons wife, Juanita, told him about the death. Mr. Woodson was not an ...
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Remembering Dennis Hopper, Photographer
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Michael Ricci
A self-described compulsive creator, the late Dennis Hopper was as prolific behind a camera as in front of it.
And not just making motion pictures, but still images, by the thousands. He photographed most avidly during the 1960s, chronicling the burgeoning L.A. art scene and its prime movers. His pictures have been included in virtually every book or exhibition about the era and have been featured widely in gallery and museum shows around the world, including numerous retrospectives. Last fall, ...
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Artist Louise Bourgeois Internationally Revered Artist Passes
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Michael Ricci
Louise Bourgeois, an internationally revered artist whose intensely personal work was inspired by psychological conflict, feminist consciousness and a fertile imagination, has died. She was 98.
Bourgeois died Monday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack on Saturday, said Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio in New York. Known for sculptures of giant spiders, women with extra breasts, double-headed penises and rooms that resonate with loneliness and dread, Bourgeois was a fearless ...
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Peter Orlovsky, Poet and Partner of Allen Ginsberg, Has Died
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Michael Ricci
Peter Orlovsky, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg and a poet in his own right, died May 30 in Vermont of lung cancer. He was 76.
Orlovsky met Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1954, before Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem, “Howl." Published in 1956, “Howl" was the subject of a 1957 obscenity trial that became a landmark free-expression case. Afterward, Ginsberg and Orlovsky moved to Paris, where they stayed with Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and others in a boarding house that ...
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Actor Dennis Hopper Dies at 74
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Michael Ricci
Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic “Easy Rider," died on Saturday at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer.
Hopper, the maverick director and costar of the landmark 1969 counterculture film classic “Easy Rider" whose drug- and alcohol-fueled reputation as a Hollywood bad boy preceded his return to sobriety and a career resurgence in the films “ Hoosiers" and “Blue Velvet," died Saturday. He was 74. A longtime ...
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