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Post by maarts on Jun 11, 2010 18:36:11 GMT -5
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 11, 2010 20:14:10 GMT -5
marvin isley also passed 4-5 days ago, here in chicago.
the isleys bass-playing brother....
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Post by Ayinger on Jul 12, 2010 16:59:55 GMT -5
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 22, 2010 18:58:50 GMT -5
this guy was always wonderful to listen to. the timbre of his voice and he always had something enlightening to say about the music he loved so much, jazz....with no hipster posturing whatsoever. Chicago deejay Dick Buckley dies at 85 Chicago jazz radio legend Dick Buckley (center) with Count Basie (right) and Joe Williams / PhotograHoward Reich - Arts critic
1:58 p.m. CDT, July 22, 2010
Deejay Dick Buckley – the resplendent voice of jazz in Chicago from the 1950s until 2008 – has died at age 85.
Best known for his long tenure on WBEZ 91.5 FM, which began in 1977 and concluded on July 29, 2008, Buckley seduced generations of fans with the plush resonance of his bass-baritone voice.
But it wasn't just the majesty of his pipes that made him a fixture in Chicago radio. Buckley also commanded an encyclopedic knowledge of the music. While other jazz deejays were content merely to recite the names of the artists and the titles of tunes, Buckley routinely shared historical and anecdotal knowledge not available on the jackets of the thousands of CDs and LPs he owned.
His authoritative delivery won him high praise from connoisseurs and casual listeners alike.
Author-broadcaster Studs Terkel once told the Tribune, "Dick is in the tradition of the old-time jazz critics I loved so much. There's always that thread running through Dick's commentary, the connection of past and present, respect for those long gone."
Born the son of a factory worker in Willshire, Ohio, and raised in Decatur, Ind., Buckley discovered jazz on the radio as a child, tuning into live broadcasts of big bands playing across America. After launching his professional career in Ft. Wayne, in 1948, he came to Chicago in 1956 to become an announcer on WAAF-AM. Alongside his radio gigs, he cut radio spots for Schlitz beer, McDonalds burgers and more.
It was his tenure at WBEZ, however, that solidified his reputation as the leading Chicago jazz deejay of the past half century.
Along the way, he routinely rubbed elbows with jazz royalty.
"I'm lucky to have lived and seen the great ones," he told the Tribune in 2001.
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-100722-wbez-dick-buckley-dead,0,332569.column |
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Post by phil on Jul 23, 2010 6:20:01 GMT -5
 R.I.P. |
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 23, 2010 15:05:15 GMT -5
i was like 'who??' then....i have a friend from palo alto who tried to turn me onto the fugs....but i liked them about as much as friggin' beefheart. yuck. brussel sprouts in audio. still, she's a friend with impeccable musical taste so there MUST be something to the fugs... Tuli Kupferberg, Bohemian and Fug, Dies at 86 Tuli Kupferberg, right, with his comrade Ed Sanders in 2003.By BEN SISARIO
Published: July 12, 2010
Tuli Kupferberg, a poet and singer who went from being a noted Beat to becoming, in his words, “the world’s oldest rock star” when he helped found the Fugs, the bawdy and politically pugnacious rock group, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 86 and lived in Manhattan.
He had been in poor health since suffering two strokes last year, said Ed Sanders, his friend and fellow Fug.
The Fugs were, in the view of the longtime Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, “the Lower East Side’s first true underground band.” They were also perhaps the most puerile and yet the most literary rock group of the 1960s, with songs suitable for the locker room as well as the graduate seminar (“Ah, Sunflower, Weary of Time,” based on a poem by William Blake); all were played with a ramshackle glee that anticipated punk rock.
With songs like “Kill for Peace,” the Fugs also established themselves as aggressively antiwar, with a touch of absurdist theater. The band became “the U.S.O. of the left,” Mr. Kupferberg once said, and it played innumerable peace rallies, including the “exorcism” of the Pentagon in 1967 that Norman Mailer chronicled in his book “The Armies of the Night.” (The band took its name from a usage in Mailer’s “Naked and the Dead.”)
The Fugs was formed in 1964 in Mr. Sanders’s Peace Eye Bookstore, a former kosher meat store on East 10th Street in Manhattan. By then Mr. Kupferberg, already in his 40s, was something of a Beatnik celebrity. He was an anthologized poet and had published underground literary magazines with titles like Birth and Yeah.
He had also found notoriety as the inspiration for a character in Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl.” As Ginsberg and Mr. Kupferberg acknowledged, he was the one who “jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten,” a reference to a 1945 suicide attempt (off the Manhattan Bridge, not Brooklyn) that had been precipitated by what he called a nervous breakdown.
The fame that episode earned him caused Mr. Kupferberg a lifetime of chagrin and embarrassment. “Throughout the years,” he later said, “I have been annoyed many times by, ‘Oh, did you really jump off the Brooklyn Bridge?,’ as if it was a great accomplishment.”
The Fugs’ first album, “The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Points of View and General Dissatisfaction,” was released in 1965. The band became a staple of underground galleries and theaters, as well as antiwar rallies. In concert Mr. Kupferberg was often the group’s mascot or harlequin, acting out satirical pantomimes — an American soldier who turns into a Nazi, for example — or sometimes not singing at all.
On subsequent albums the band changed its lineup many times and acquired a more professional sound, though its scatological themes got it kicked off at least one major record label.
With his bushy beard and wild hair, Mr. Kupferberg embodied the hippie aesthetic. But the term he preferred was bohemian, which to him signified a commitment to art as well as a rejection of restrictive bourgeois values, and as a scholar of the counterculture he traced the term back to an early use by students at the University of Paris. Among his books were “1,001 Ways to Live Without Working” — and for decades he was a frequent sight in Lower Manhattan, selling his cartoons on the street and serving as a grandfather figure for generations of nonconformists.
Beneath Mr. Kupferberg’s antics, however, was a keen poetic and musical intelligence that drew on his Jewish and Eastern European roots. He specialized in what he called “parasongs,” which adapted and sometimes satirized old songs with new words. And some of his Fugs songs, like the gentle “Morning, Morning,” had their origins in Jewish religious melodies.
Naphtali Kupferberg was born in New York on Sept. 28, 1923. He grew up on the Lower East Side and became a jazz fan and leftist activist while still a teenager. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1944 and got a job as a medical librarian.
“I had intended to be a doctor at one point, like any good Jewish boy,” he recalled to Mr. Sanders in an audio interview in 2003. Instead he began to write topical poems and humor pieces, contributing to The Village Voice and other publications.
After the Fugs broke up, in 1969, Mr. Kupferberg performed with two groups, the Revolting Theater and the Fuxxons, and continued writing. The Fugs reunited periodically, first in 1984. Recently, Mr. Sanders said, Mr. Kupferberg had completed his parts for a new album, “Be Free: The Fugs Final CD (Part Two),” and had also been posting ribald “perverbs” — brief videos punning on well-known aphorisms — on YouTube.
Mr. Kupferberg is survived by his wife, Sylvia Topp; three children, Joseph Sacks, Noah Kupferberg and Samara Kupferberg; and three grandchildren.
A version of this article appeared in print on July 13, 2010, on page A23 of the New York edition. |
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Post by RocDoc on Aug 10, 2010 15:02:45 GMT -5
From The New York Times --
Lorene Yarnell, who with Robert Shields formed the mime-and-dance comedy team Shields and Yarnell, a familiar presence on television in the 1970s, died on July 29 after suffering a brain aneurysm at her home in Sandefjord, Norway. She was 66.
The death was confirmed by Mr. Shields’s wife, Jennifer.
With Mr. Shields, her husband at the time, Ms. Yarnell starred in the variety show “Shields and Yarnell,” broadcast on CBS in 1977 and 1978. She had originally trained as a dancer, he as a mime; after meeting in the early 1970s, each learned the other’s art. Together they developed a style that was an amalgam of the two.
The result charmed many viewers, though not everyone. Reviewing the first episode of “Shields and Yarnell” in The Washington Post, Tom Shales wrote, “The premiere last week broke the scoop that even the Captain and Tennille can be out-cutesie-wootsie’d.”
In 1981 Mr. Shields and Ms. Yarnell starred in “Broadway Follies,” a musical revue at the Nederlander Theater in New York. The show received poor notices and closed after one performance.
Ms. Yarnell’s other credits include the robot Dot Matrix (with a voice supplied by Joan Rivers) in “Spaceballs,” Mel Brooks’s 1987 film comedy.
Ms. Yarnell was born in Inglewood, Calif., on March 21, 1944. After she married Mr. Shields in 1972 — the ceremony was performed in mime — the couple worked as street performers in San Francisco before breaking into television as a duo.
Mr. Shields and Ms. Yarnell divorced in the mid-1980s. Survivors include her fourth husband, Bjorn Jansson, and a brother, Richard, The Los Angeles Times reported.
i saw just the name 'yarnell' and i was like 'where the heck do i know that name from?'...then my brain linked it to some sorta comedy ala stiller & meara, cheech & chong, yadda yadda. so they did mime, so what, it was the 70s...she was also pretty damned cute too. 
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Post by Ayinger on Aug 11, 2010 16:35:45 GMT -5
DAMN - she was 66??? I just don't want to even think it,,,,,
Used to watch the show all the time (and variety spots that they'd pop up on)...and yeah, she was a bit cute!
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Post by RocDoc on Aug 13, 2010 11:49:31 GMT -5
DAMN - she was 66??? I just don't want to even think it,,,,, Used to watch the show all the time (and variety spots that they'd pop up on)...and yeah, she was a bit cute! yeah, i never would've guessed 66 already either...tho those dancers don't age like normal folks. in 1977 (when the show just came on) she was in her mid 30s and looking quite good. i was just 22 and probably going 'mmmm-mmmm-MMM!'.... shit, where DOES it go?  |
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Post by phil on Aug 16, 2010 14:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by RocDoc on Aug 16, 2010 14:43:42 GMT -5
rest in peace mr leonard.
nice pics.
he didn't die of smoking-related causes, did he?
i ask because 4 out of the 5 pictures use smoke (cigarette presumably) to nice photographic/compositional effect.
wondering if respiratory compromise could've been an added vocational hazard to the guy.
i'm just sayin'.
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Post by Ayinger on Aug 16, 2010 16:28:35 GMT -5
The classic shot of Dexter Gordon there is hanging right now on the wall just to the right of me....I would to have the last one,,,,Ellington it looks to be.
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Post by phil on Aug 16, 2010 17:31:00 GMT -5
Jazz photographer Herman Leonard dies at 87
(AP) – 5 hours ago
LOS ANGELES — Jazz scene photographer Herman Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87.
Leonard, who moved to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina flooded his New Orleans home and destroyed thousands of his prints, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, family spokeswoman Geraldine Baum said on his website. The cause of death wasn't disclosed.
Leonard was considered one of the great mid-century jazz scene photographers. He started in the late 1940s and left a rich chronicle of a musical era with photos taken in New York, Paris and London through the 1960s.
The Smithsonian has more than 130 Leonard photographs in its permanent collection.
He was studying photography at Ohio University when he was called to duty in the U.S. Army during World War II. He returned to college and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1947.
He moved to New York the following year, after an apprenticeship with famed portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh taking pictures of Albert Einstein, Martha Graham and other cultural icons.
He then became immersed in the jazz scene, making deals with club owners to photograph rehearsals and giving them photos for their marquees.
Using a large 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera, he shot Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan and countless other jazz greats in the smoky haze of jazz clubs. In 1956, he was Marlon Brando's personal photographer on a trip to the Far East.
While his prints were lost in the New Orleans hurricane, his 60,000 negatives were safe, having been sent before Katrina to the Ogden Museum. His return to New Orleans was chronicled in the 2006 BBC/Sundance documentary "Saving Jazz."
In 2008, he was the first photographer to be granted a Grammy Foundation Grant for Preservation and Archiving, enabling him to digitize, catalog and preserve his collection of nearly 60,000 jazz negatives.
Last year, Leonard was the official photographer for the Montreal Jazz Festival, photographing legends such as Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck.
Leonard is survived by children Valerie, Shana, Michael and David; and six grandchildren.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Post by JACkory on Aug 20, 2010 14:01:22 GMT -5
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Post by RocDoc on Aug 20, 2010 14:52:48 GMT -5
shit, the walls DID come down...i wonder what happened.
helluva singer-songwriter.
rest in peace.
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