sweet, straightforward, honest, positive guy. He was kind of like a Tibetan monk, in a way. He was very Zen, very cool. I never saw him lose his cool ever. I never saw him get mad about anything. We hung out a little bit together. One time after we did “Crying,” David...
sweet, straightforward, honest, positive guy. He was kind of like a Tibetan monk, in a way. He was very Zen, very cool. I never saw him lose his cool ever. I never saw him get mad about anything. We hung out a little bit together. One time after we did “Crying,” David...
sweet, straightforward, honest, positive guy. He was kind of like a Tibetan monk, in a way. He was very Zen, very cool. I never saw him lose his cool ever. I never saw him get mad about anything. We hung out a little bit together. One time after we did “Crying,” David...
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards. —Tablo There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. —Louis L'...
Duke Ellington Duke Ellington’s commitment to the civil rights movement was complicated. Many felt that a Black man of such esteem should be more outspoken, but Ellington often chose to remain quiet on the issue. He even refused to joinMartin Luther King’s1963 march on Washington, D.C. ...
Jazz, described by the notable conductor and violinist,Paul Whitemanreferred to as “The King of Jazz”, (even by jazz greats such as Duke Ellington) deemed Jazz “the folk music of the machine age.” Not only was it popular, it was literally everywhere. ...
Though Van Vechten’s work was condemned by older luminaries like DuBois, it was embraced by Hurston, Hughes and others. Countee Cullen Cootie Williams plays his trumpet in a crowded Harlem ballroom with Duke Ellington's band in the 1930s. The Harlem Renaissance produced groundbreaking contributions...
And so it was that, on the back of a napkin, the most important formula in NBA history was born. It was not the product of a painstaking regression analysis; no lofty arithmetic was required in the process. In fact, they probably didn't even use a calculator. From analyzing box scores...
In 2016 Eterna celebrates its 160th anniversary, a milestone for a company that has a very important place in the history of watchmaking. Just to mention two facts, consider that it was Eterna that introduced the ball bearings solution that is still used today on automatic movements and that...
important big band leader when it “was still a man-dominated world,” she says. “The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra invited four new composers to present their work, and I was the only woman. But I sensed how eagerly the world was waiting to see women emerge. We’re liberated from our...