Ergebnis für "The Race" in Komponisten & Musiker

Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along with Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis) to have won a Pulitzer Prize. In Easily Slip into Another World, Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family life and education, and his brilliant career in music.

In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law.

Im Winter 1955/56 begann Gene eine Rock'n'Roll-Band zusammen zu stellen, da er im Februar 1956 an der Talent Show des Radiosenders WCMS teilnehmen wollte. Gene konnte überzeugen und bekam in der Radio Show "Country Showroom" regelmäßige Airplays mit seiner Version des Songs "Heartbreak Hotel". Im Frühjahr 1956 war Gene schon so populär, dass die Live-Aufnahmen für die Radiosendung vom Gates Theatre in Portsmouth in einen wesentlich größere Veranstaltungsraum in Norfolk verlegt werden musste, weil immer mehr Leute ihn sehen wollten.