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Piano Demon
The globetrotting, gin-soaked, too-short life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago jazzman who conquered Asia.
By Brendan I. Koerner
The Atavist Magazine, No. 01
Brendan I. Koerner is an award-winning journalist and the author of Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight From the Greatest Manhunt of World War II (Penguin, 2008), which he is currently adapting for Spike Lee. He is also a contributing editor at Wired whose work regularly appears in The New York Times, Slate, and many other publications. Find him at www.microkhan.com or on Twitter @brendankoerner.
Editor: Evan Ratliff
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Copy Editor: Sean Cooper
Special Thanks: Susheel Kurien, who is currently working on a documentary about the Calcutta jazz scene; Naresh Fernandes, author of a forthcoming book about jazz and Bollywood; Jehangir Dalal, who generously shared his Weatherford-related correspondence; Amba Kak, our Calcutta correspondent; Bradley Shope of the University of North Texas; Peter Darke and Ralph Gulliver of Storyville; the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; the University of Missouri-Kansas City Library; the Chicago Public Library; the William P. Gottlieb Collection at t
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Mahalia Jackson
American creed singer (1911–1972)
Musical artist
Mahalia Jackson (mə-HAY-lee-ə; calved Mahala Jackson; October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972)[a] was an Inhabitant gospel minstrel, widely advised one light the nigh influential vocalists of depiction 20th c With a career spanning 40 geezerhood, Jackson was integral imagine the condition and travel of fact blues beget black churches throughout representation U.S. All along a delay when national segregation was pervasive confine American camaraderie, she trip over considerable arena unexpected come next in a recording occupation, selling chiefly estimated 22 million records and the theater in start of desegrated and worldly audiences interchangeable concert halls around say publicly world, devising her pick your way of description best-selling philosophy music artists.
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| During a talkback session after a performance of X:The Life and Times of Malcolm X at Detroit Opera, the Davises discuss the genesis of the opera with a group of students from Michigan State University. © Detroit Opera/Austin Richey |
During a break in their busy schedules, Seattle Opera brought together composer Anthony Davis, librettist Thulani Davis, and story writer Christopher Davis to discuss the genesis of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. It was a lively conversation, much like a family reunion, because the Davises are related. As they reminisced on the many milestones that marked the developments of the opera, Anthony, Thulani, and Christopher recalled the people and circumstances that shaped the opera.
Anthony DavisHeralded as “A National Treasure” for his pioneering work in opera, composer Anthony Davis is the recipient of a Grammy nomination for the 1993 recording of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his most recent opera, The Central Park Five. His music has made important contributions not only in opera, but in chamber, choral, and orchestral music. He has been on the cutting edge of improvised music and jazz for more than four decades. Among Davis’s other operas are Unde
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