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Oscar Contender 'On the Road' Burns the Candle on Both Endsentrenched in the world of bebop jazz, a music that was famously gestated during a period when its main proponents, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, worked with Afro-Cuban musicians like Mario Bauzá and Chano Pozo. When Sal Paradise and Dean
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Romney Compares Puerto Rico Win to Massive Pancakethe island. "These pancakes are something else, I'll tell ya," said Romney, standing in the dining room of Charlie Parker 's Diner in Springfield admiring the dish known as a "Charlie's Famous Giant Pancake." "These pancakes are
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'Mummified' Former Playmate Swerved Between Recluse and Storytellerdecades, was married to Vickers briefly in the 1950s. "To me it was such a big thing to meet a lady whose father knew Charlie Parker ," he said. They were rarely in contact after the divorce, their last phone call was about two years ago, he says
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Spike vs. Clint
ever studied the history?" Eastwood recalled that Lee "was complaining when I did 'Bird' [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker ] , 'Why would a white guy be doing that?' I was the only guy who made it, that's why. He could have gone
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Spike Strikes Back: Clint's 'an Angry Old Man'and that's the way it is. When I do a picture and it's 90 percent black, like 'Bird,' [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker ] I use 90 percent black people." He finished his roast with a simple, harsh directive: "A guy like him should
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Clint Eastwood Tells Spike Lee to 'Shut His Face'
and that's the way it is. When I do a picture and it's 90 percent black, like 'Bird,' [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker ] I use 90 percent black people." He finished his roast with a simple, harsh directive: "A guy like him should
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Rob Thomas Answers Your Questions
but I'm more of a fan of instrumental jazz. I'm a big bebop fan. I like a lot of Miles [Davis'] stuff and Charlie Parker . My favorite jazz record is "Sketches of Spain" by Miles Davis. Question: What part of the music industry do
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In Memoriam -- May to August 2005
for peace." Percy Heath , 81 -- Jazz bassist and founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet. He recorded with Charlie Parker , Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. Philip Morrison , 89 -- Physicist who helped create the first
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Jazz Artifacts -- Feb. 20, 2005
Manhattan today, and bids could hit a million dollars for Charlie Parker 's sax, Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet or Benny Goodman's Without John Coltrane being associated with that, or Charlie Parker being associated with it, that Dizzy Gillespie or
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Person of the Week: Simmie Knox
think of painting a president," Knox said. Knox has enjoyed the attention this week, he said, but he is looking forward to getting back to the solitude of his work complete with a little jazz by Charlie Parker playing in the background.
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Myths of Modern Entrepreneurship
eccentric people. This is the junkie theory of entrepreneurship. You know, you can't be a great jazz musician like Charlie Parker unless you're a heroin addict too. Sure, some great entrepreneurs, like Larry Ellison or Bill Gates, are pretty
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Preview -- World News Tonight 05/04/01
We take a Closer Look tonight at the sad tradition of celebrity addiction: F. Scott Fitzgerald to Judy Garland, Charlie Parker to Robert Downey, Jr. Today it was Darryl Strawberry in court again because of his addiction, and his inability
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Does Fame Fuel Celebrities' Addiction?
part of a long, lamentable legacy of celebrities unable to escape the grip of addiction. Judy Garland, jazz great Charlie Parker and actor Robert Downey Jr. are other stars who've battled with drugs and alcohol. Some doctors believe their
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Webcast: Pakistan Elections, Kenya Protests, Icons Who Died in 2007Overwhelming. It was in 1975 He on record with Dizzy Gillespie. The track blues for Byrd was a tribute to their friend Charlie Parker . And I sit down to the piano He says I don't want any scuffling I wanted to be a love affair. You and all find
Gillespie. The track blues for Byrd was a tribute to their friend Charlie Parker . And I sit down to the piano He says I don't want any scuffling I wanted to be a love affair. You
