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OH, and i loved the Four Rivers so much.:(
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But not 'The Four Rivers' of Piazza Navona:
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but the also called four rivers, in Italian 'La Barcaccia' placed in Piazza di Spagna:
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Trumpeter Clark Terry, Who Played in ‘Tonight Show’ Band, Dies at 94
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February 21, 2015 | 10:29PM PT
Christopher Morris
Music Reporter


Trumpeter Clark Terry, who excelled as a leader and sideman in big bands and small combos during his seven-decade career in jazz, has died at 94.


Terry, a 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, entered hospice care on Feb. 13, suffering from the effects of advanced diabetes.


“He left us peacefully, surrounded by his family, students and friends,” his wife Gwen wrote on his Facebook page Saturday.


Among the most prolific and widely admired instrumentalists in jazz, Terry led or co-led more than 80 recording dates and played on more than 900 sessions by the time of his last session in 2004.


Also proficient on flugelhorn, Terry was best known to the general public as a longtime featured soloist in the house band of NBC’s “The Tonight Show.” In 1960, he became the first African-American staff musician with the network.


Born in St. Louis, Terry began playing in high school, and he played in the U.S. Navy band during World War II. After the war, he began his recording career with R&B saxophonist-singer Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson’s combo and saxophonist Charlie Barnet’s big band (alongside trumpeter Doc Severinsen, later the leader of the “Tonight Show” band).


During the late ’40s and through the ’50s, he held back-to-back gigs with the two most prestigious big bands in jazz: the Count Basie and Duke Ellington orchestras. (In 1959, he was part of the group that performed Ellington’s score for director Otto Preminger’s feature “Anatomy of a Murder.”)


Comfortable in both swing and bebop formats, he also worked during this period as a sideman with Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Stan Getz, Johnny Hodges, Gerald Wilson, Thelonious Monk, Billy Strayhorn, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell and Ray Charles. He also worked in the big band of leader-composer-arranger Quincy Jones, for whom he served as an early mentor (as he did with another celebrated trumpeter, Miles Davis).


During the ’60s, he continued to record as a leader while doing sideman duty with Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Johnny Griffin, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Yusef Lateef, Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson, Wes Montgomery, J.J. Johnson, the Modern Jazz Quartet and Cannonball Adderley, among many others. He appeared on several albums toplined by “Tonight Show” bandleaders Severinsen and Skitch Henderson. He began a fruitful collaboration with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer’s big band in 1961.


In 1964, Terry – known for his sly humor and his trumpet-and-vocal conversations on the bandstand – actually scored something like a pop hit, when he scatted on his composition “Mumbles,” featured on “The Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One” (with Terry the titular “plus one”). The novel collaboration with Canadian pianist Peterson’s group propelled the album to No. 81 on the U.S. album chart.


From the ’70s onward, Terry continued to record but increasingly concentrated on touring, with Peterson and his own Big B-A-D Band. He began mounting his own branded jazz festivals in 2000.


He focused his energy on musical education in later years. A Harlem youth band he founded ultimately helped germinate New York’s celebrated “Jazz Mobile” program for youngsters. He also taught and lectured at a number of high schools, colleges and music camps.


A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, he – like Louis Armstrong and others before him – served as a Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, touring the Middle East and Africa.


Terry published his autobiography “Clark” in 2011. He was featured in the 2014 documentary “Keep on Keepin’ On,” about his relationship with a blind 23-year-old pianist.
 
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This is going to borderline on 'political' so if that's not what you want to read do not bother to...

The U.S. Justice Department released their report on the Mike Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, and determined the whole 'hands up, don't shoot' protests were over an event that never happened.

Mike Brown robbed a store, punched a clerk then walked down the middle of the street with the stolen goods in view of a cop.

When the cop ordered he and his friend to go to the sidewalk (this was August... no snow) Mike Brown assault the cop while the cop that weighed 2/3rds what Mike did was seated in his SUV...

But the story now is there were 15 incidents of racism in the past 5 years and a truckload of statistics that anyone with 8th grade math can refute.

A lot of businesses got burned down (most minority owned... what did the wig shop owner do???) to make a news story about an encounter with a young thug and a cop.

I am sorry Mike Brown died and for his family and friends...

But part of the community I like in and grew up in has been smeared and I will not stand for it...

Tree

If you agree or disagree please start a thread on PM...

A young man died, his fault, my fault, nobody's fault...

Thanks for listening
 
International Women's Day
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International women's day

German poster for International Women's Day, March 8th, 1914; English translation: “Give Us Women’s Suffrage. Women’s Day, March 8, 1914. Until now, prejudice and reactionary attitudes have denied full civic rights to women, who as workers, mothers, and citizens wholly fulfill their duty, who must pay their taxes to the state as well as the municipality. Fighting for this natural human right must be the firm, unwavering intention of every woman, every female worker. In this, no pause for rest, no respite is allowed. Come all, you women and girls, to the 9th public women’s assembly on Sunday, March 8, 1914, at 3pm.” [1]


International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year.[2] In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political, and social achievements. Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily in Europe, especially those in the Soviet Bloc. In some regions, the day lost its political flavor, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. This is a day which some people celebrate by wearing purple ribbons.
 
for me is this a perfect and great day because my wife is back home......................indeed with only one breast, but she is for me still the best woman and perhaps, it looks so, but we only know that about some time free from cancer, but today, womenday 2015, I'm the hapiest guy in this world:rolleyes::beer::clapping:
 
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Alabama State troopers attack civil-rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965

The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and led to the passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery as showing the desire of black American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression.
 
I just learned, on Stakedamsels Fiery Forum, of the passing of the manip artist known as Oberon. I don't know any details like when or how. I am told he was in poor health for some time. His specialty was BATS. I know that's not to everyone's taste around here, but it is one of my kinks. he was one of the first artist I discovered on the internet & one of the best.
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Yep Very sad news Ralphus and Gimpers back March 5: [www.stakedamsels.com] at SD forum it was posted in the "News" section that "Oberon" has passed away. I will miss him dearly. I believe he was one of the best manipulation bats artist ever.
some of our members, like wllowfall and Zorff were used for his manips
 
In the year 2015, Pi Day had special significance on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 a.m. and will have some at p.m., with the date and time representing the first 10 digits of π.[13] That same second will also contain a precise instant corresponding to all of the digits of π.:doh::D
 
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