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Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, May 10, 2010 - 12:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
RIP Ms Lena.

Stormy Weather (1943)

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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another legend dies. She sure was a strong and innovative woman. She didn't let anything stand in her way.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

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Lena Horne had a beautiful, mellow voice. I like Stormy Weather. (I was born in 1943)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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She always held herself with such class and such grace. A beautiful woman and a sad day today.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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This is so sad. The only possible "plus" you get when a legend like this dies, is the bonus of seeing their work shown on TV. TCM and AMC should be showing some wonderful memories of Lena.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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So many beautiful pictures of her it was hard to choose:



Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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:-( Very sad. She had an ethereal beauty, and a magical talent.

Kookliebird
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08-04-2005

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Whenever you saw her on tv, it was like she glowed.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

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One of my fondest memories is of taking my Grandmother to see Lena Horne at Wolftrap in the early '80's. She was spectacular. An amazing talent.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

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Amazon has a bunch of free jazz music for download at the moment. Lena is on this album: CLICK HERE.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Thanks for that link, Teach ...

Pamy
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01-02-2002

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So ironic. Bill and I were watching The Wiz yesterday and were saying all of the main characters have died except for Diana and Lena.

Blessing to Lena's family. What a beautiful woman

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

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Pro Golfer Found Dead

LPGA player Blasberg dies; police investigating

LAS VEGAS (AP)—LPGA golfer Erica Blasberg died Sunday in a Las Vegas suburb according to police and her agent.

Henderson police spokesman Keith Paul said Monday that authorities were investigating the 25-year-old American’s death. It was not immediately clear whether foul play was involved.

Paul said police responded to a 911 call and were dispatched to Blasberg’s suburban three-bedroom house around 3 p.m. on Sunday. Paul declined to say who made the call, saying it was part of the investigation.

Blasberg’s agent, Chase Callahan, confirmed her death but declined to provide details because of the investigation.

Messages left with the coroner’s office in Las Vegas on Monday were not returned.

Blasberg played her only LPGA Tour event this year two weeks ago in Mexico and tied for 44th.

She found greater success in college, winning six times in two years at the University of Arizona and playing on the Curtis Cup team in 2004. She turned professional that year.

LPGA spokesman David Higdon called Blasberg’s death a “tough hit” for women’s golf.

“She was a very popular player and well-liked and we’re going to miss her,” Higdon said. “This is a very close-knit group of players and tour and we’re saddened by what happened.”

LPGA player Meg Mallon said the news will “hit hard” for tour participants.

“I’m just very sad and just really kind of sick to my stomach that a life ended so young,” Mallon said.

“People in Mexico passed her by or hit balls next to her on the range and everyone’s having their own moments right now,” she said.

Blasberg’s death was first reported by Golfweek magazine.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
I saw it on Nancy Grace last night. Apparently she was leaving Monday morning for a tournament in Atlanta I think...She had made plans Monday night for dinner with some of the other golfers on the LPGA tour.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

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That is so young. Very sad.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

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Last Broadway Ziegfeld Follies Girl dies at 106


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_ziegfeld_girl

Tom McElroy, Associated Press Writer – Wed May 12, 1:22 am ET
NEW YORK – The last Ziegfeld Follies Girl has died.

Doris Eaton Travis, one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies chorus girls, who wore elaborate costumes for the series of lavish Broadway theatrical productions in the early 1900s, died Tuesday at age 106, public relations firm Boneau/Bryan-Brown said. It didn't say where or how she died.

Travis, who was from West Bloomfield, Mich., also was a supporter of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraising organization and appeared often in its Easter Bonnet Competition.

She continued to work long after her Follies days ended, with annual appearances on Broadway, a small role in a Jim Carrey movie and a memoir, "The Days We Danced: The Story of My Theatrical Family From Florenz Ziegfeld to Arthur Murray and Beyond."

Interest in the 5-foot-2 centenarian piqued after a 1997 reunion with four other Ziegfeld Follies Girls for the reopening of the New Amsterdam Theatre, where she danced about 80 years earlier.

"I was the only one who could still dance," she said then.

That led to her involvement in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit, where she caught the eye of Carrey and director Milos Forman, who were making the movie "Man on the Moon," about the life of comedian Andy Kaufman.

She played an actress who was no longer popular.

"I had to ride a stick horse and faint and then get resuscitated," Travis recalled in 2006, laughing as she did a fake gallop.

Even after more than 90 years as a hoofer, dancing still came easy to Travis, whose extravagant Ziegfeld Follies show enchanted Broadway from 1907 into the 1930s.

"I'm the last of the Ziegfeld Follies Girls now," she said when she was 102. "It's an honor in a way. I certainly didn't think that would happen."

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Doris Eaton Travis

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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Wow she led quite an amazing life!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

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RIP Ronnie James Dio. I loved Dio back in the day. That horned symbol he made with his hand was something his Italian grandmother did in the old country to ward off evil. He passed away at 67 from stomach cancer.

Panda
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07-15-2005

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sorry to hear about Ronnie!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, May 17, 2010 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Who is Dio?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, May 17, 2010 - 11:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
When Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath, Dio replaced him. He was with them off and on through the years and in between the Black Sabbath years was a solo artist.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

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Oh no! ...

Hank Jones Has Died
NY Times


Hank Jones, whose self-effacing nature belied his stature as one of the most respected jazz pianists of the postwar era, died on Sunday in the Bronx. He was 91.

His death, at Calvary Hospital Hospice, was announced by his longtime manager, Jean-Pierre Leduc. Mr. Jones lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and also had a home in Hartwick, N.Y.

Mr. Jones spent much of his career in the background. For three and a half decades he was primarily a sideman, most notably with Ella Fitzgerald; for much of that time he also worked as a studio musician on radio and television.

His fellow musicians admired his imagination, his versatility and his distinctive style, which blended the urbanity and rhythmic drive of the Harlem stride pianists, the dexterity of Art Tatum and the harmonic daring of bebop. (The pianist, composer and conductor André Previn once called Mr. Jones his favorite pianist, “regardless of idiom.”)

But unlike his younger brothers Thad, who played trumpet with Count Basie and was later a co-leader of a celebrated big band, and Elvin, an influential drummer who formed a successful combo after six years with John Coltrane’s innovative quartet, Hank Jones seemed content for many years to keep a low profile.

That started changing around the time he turned 60. Riding a wave of renewed interest in jazz piano that also transformed his close friend and occasional duet partner Tommy Flanagan from a perpetual sideman to a popular nightclub headliner, Mr. Jones began working and recording regularly under his own name, both unaccompanied and as the leader of a trio. Listeners and critics took notice.

Reviewing a nightclub appearance in 1989, Peter Watrous of The New York Times praised Mr. Jones as “an extraordinary musician” whose playing “resonates with jazz history” and who “embodies the idea of grace under pressure, where assurance and relaxation mask nearly impossible improvisations.”

Mr. Jones further enhanced his reputation in the 1990s with a striking series of recordings that placed his piano in a range of contexts — including an album with a string quartet, a collaboration with a group of West African musicians and a duet recital with the bassist Charlie Haden devoted to spirituals and hymns. In 1998, he appeared at Lincoln Center with a 32-piece orchestra in a concert consisting mostly of his own compositions. [...]

“People heard me and said, ‘Well, this is not just a boy from the country — maybe he knows a few chords,’ ” he told Ben Waltzer in a 2001 interview for The Times. He abandoned the freelance life in late 1947 to become Ella Fitzgerald’s accompanist and held that job until 1953, occasionally taking time out to record with Charlie Parker and others.

He kept busy after leaving Fitzgerald. Among many other activities, he began an association with Benny Goodman that would last into the 1970s, and he was a member of the last group Goodman’s swing-era rival Artie Shaw led before retiring in 1954. But financial security beckoned, and in 1959 he became a staff musician at CBS. He also participated in a celebrated moment in presidential history when he accompanied Marilyn Monroe as she sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy, who was about to turn 45, during a Democratic Party fund-raiser at Madison Square Garden in May 1962. [more at link]

Mr Jones was one of the great remaining jazz musicians from the Great Era of jazz. He played with all the legends...and he was amazing with all of them, too. I can't overstate how compassionate his accompaniment was with the great singers and how how melodic sense strengthened the recordings of the great instrumentalists.

We have lost a legend.

Here's Mr Jones with Charlie Parker, the legendary Ray Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Lady Ella, and more... youtube

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqbid4dYmwA&feature=related

Very articulate.. took me a second to realize the subtitles were to be ignored.

What a delightful lesson..

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 7:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I almost never watch Leno, but I watched some last night because Bill Cosby was a guest. I'm so glad I did. He is wonderful. (He said racism is such a waste of time. I really love that guy.) That aside, he talked about Lena Horne in such an endearing and lovely way. Funny too, she was a guest on the Cosby show because she wanted to see the Huxtables kitchen! He talked about the first time he saw her, he stood there with his mouth open...the way he talked about this was very very funny. Maybe there is a you tube of Cosby from Leno last night. (For once Leno did not interrupt or make it about himself. He actually said very little.)