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Message in a Bottle: Sting's Vineyard to Sell 'Rock Star Wine'
The rock star Sting – whose best known songs include Message in a Bottle – is to produce 30,000 bottles of Chianti a year from his 300-hectare estate in Tuscany. The singer, 57, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, made the announcement at a public meeting called at Figline Valdarno, south of Florence, to “defend Tuscan ...
The Playboy Sells His Other Mansion
Hugh Hefner's home next to Playboy mansion for sale for $27,995,000 The two-story, 7,300-square-foot English Manor-style home was built in 1929 and bought by the Hefners in 1998. OK, no more proverbial pressing your nose up against the gates hoping to catch a glimpse of what goes on at the Playboy mansion. Now, you can live ...
ObliqSound Signs Vocalist and Songwriter Somi
ObliqSound is pleased to announce the signing of its newest artist, vocalist and songwriter Somi, whose label debut will release this fall. A finalist in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her single “Ingele" from her critically acclaimed album Red Soil In My Eyes (2007, Harmonia Mundi), Somi will perform at the 2009 SXSW Festival ...
Johnny Mercer Project
LEGENDARY LYRICIST/COMPOSER CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY Johnny Mercer The Johnny Mercer Foundation and the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University are presenting the fourth annual Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project on Northwestern's Evanston, IL. campus, June 21 to 27. The no-fee, weeklong workshop led by Tony and Grammy award-winning artists is seeking talented young songwriters or writing ...
Zeitlin in the Journal
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, I write about Denny Zeitlin. The piece is pegged to the simultaneous releases of his new trio CD on the Sunnyside label and a Mosaic box set with nearly all of Zeitlin's Columbia trio recordings. The article begins: In October 1963, a 25-year-old Johns Hopkins medical student sat at a concert ...
Best Jazz Songs of Spring (PT. 1)
New York experienced 70-degree weather over the weekend. Not bad, considering that the soaring temperatures came a week after a blizzard dumped 10 inches of snow on the region. So yesterday, with the warm breeze coming in over the Hudson River and the clocks pushed forward an hour, thoughts naturally turned to spring. And songs of ...
Best Jazz Songs of Spring (PT. 2)
I don't trust Phil--the groundhog. This year, on February 2nd, under a bright sky, Phil saw his shadow, signifying six more weeks of winter. In New York, that would make the warming trend just a week away--on March 16th. But if Phil's track record (and today's chilly temperature) is any indication, that vernal prediction must be ...
Best Jazz Songs of Spring (PT. 3)
Sick of winter? Based on the e-mails I've been receiving from readers over the past two days, you're not alone. To help cheer you up, I offer you my final top-10 list of jazz songs with spring in the title. This brings my total number of favorites to 30. Which means you can now fire away ...
Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late
On Monday in London, Stanley Wells, the chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, unveiled what he claims is the only picture of William Shakespeare painted during the playwright’s lifetime. The trust explains the significance in a statement on its Web site: Up to now only two images have been accepted as authentic representations of what Shakespeare ...
Bernstein’s Workroom Will Head to Indiana
Leonard Bernstein’s children have donated the carefully preserved contents of his main composing studio to Indiana University, which has promised to recreate the space. Contents of the home studio in Fairfield, Conn., where Leonard Bernstein composed will be displayed in a re-creation of the room at Indiana University in Bloomington. The items run from the deeply ...
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