Charlie Parker called her ‘the lady with the million dollar ears’. Sheila Jordan, who was white, married a member of Parker’s quintet and became a familiar figure on stage in New York’s golden years of jazz, riffing away with the best.
She died in NY yesterday.
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The Hochschule für Musik und Theater München has appointed Simon Mack to be professor of music theory. A German-born crossover composer, Mack could be mistaken for a younger version of Munich’s other Simon. New Simon […]
