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Jean-Jacques Sempe, French Cartoonist Of 'Le Petit Nicolas' Fame, Dies
Jean-Jacques Sempe, who originally wanted to be a jazz pianist and had a difficult childhood, dropped out of school aged 14.
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After Shingles Painfully Infected Her Eye, She Wrote A Musical About It
Lipowicz, who is still recovering from her ordeal, sings along with a jazz pianist and other performers in a show intended to entertain and inspire audiences.
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Jazz-Funk Pioneer Joe Sample Dies at 75
Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died.
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Horace Silver, Legendary Jazz Musician, Dead at 85
He was a pioneer of a rhythmic jazz style known as 'hard bop'
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British jazz great Stan Tracey dies at 86
British jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey, who played with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones in the course of a 70 year-career, has died at the age of 86.
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Hot jazz and the Cold War in 1950s Mumbai
One evening in 1958, the pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet gathered in the home of a jazz-loving industrialist on Mumbai's Malabar Hill to chat with a group of Indian musicians led by the sitar maestro, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan. Then they picked up their instruments and put their new knowledge to work.
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Jean-Jacques Sempe, French Cartoonist Of 'Le Petit Nicolas' Fame, Dies
Jean-Jacques Sempe, who originally wanted to be a jazz pianist and had a difficult childhood, dropped out of school aged 14.
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After Shingles Painfully Infected Her Eye, She Wrote A Musical About It
Lipowicz, who is still recovering from her ordeal, sings along with a jazz pianist and other performers in a show intended to entertain and inspire audiences.
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Jazz-Funk Pioneer Joe Sample Dies at 75
Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died.
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Horace Silver, Legendary Jazz Musician, Dead at 85
He was a pioneer of a rhythmic jazz style known as 'hard bop'
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British jazz great Stan Tracey dies at 86
British jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey, who played with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones in the course of a 70 year-career, has died at the age of 86.
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Hot jazz and the Cold War in 1950s Mumbai
One evening in 1958, the pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet gathered in the home of a jazz-loving industrialist on Mumbai's Malabar Hill to chat with a group of Indian musicians led by the sitar maestro, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan. Then they picked up their instruments and put their new knowledge to work.
