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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Happy birthday to People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director and principal conductor of the Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev. All round, the best Tchaikovsky conductor of his time. Certainly in the ballets and […]
The numbers are in at the Erl winter festival in Tyrol and the backers are happy. When the curtain dropped last night, 94 percent of tickets had been sold, more than ever before. What counted […]
Tickets go on sale today for an October 5 operatic aria recital at the Met by the Italian singer Andrea Bocelli. The one-night stand, organised by the Met, will be accompanied by members of the […]
