Nicola Arigliano died he was 86

Nicola Arigliano died he was 86. Arigliano was a singer jazz Italian .

( Squinzano , 6 December 1923 - Calimera , 30 March 2010 )

 . Ran away from home for 11 years for the humiliations also received by relatives because of his stuttering and arrived in Milan , where he was welcomed there by fellow migrants ^[1] .


Si mise in luce, dopo le prime esibizioni a carattere locale, nel 1946 dai microfoni di Radio Bari , partecipando al concorso Il Paradiso dei dilettanti (organizzato dal compositore Vito Vittorio Crocitto e dal maestro Carlo Vitale ). Came to the fore after the first performances in local, in 1946 by the microphones of Radio Bari , for participating in the paradise of amateur (organized by composer Victor Vito Crocitto and teacher Charles Vitale ).

	« Ho cominciato da ragazzo. "I started as a boy. Studiavo un po' di armonia , ero, anzi sono, un bachiano convinto, mi piace tutto di Sebastiano. » I studied a bit 'of harmony , I was, indeed are, a Bach convinced, I like everything about Sebastian. "
	( Nicola Arigliano [1] ) (Nicola Arigliano [1] )

Negli anni successivi emigrò dal Salento , e dopo una lunga gavetta nei locali notturni del Nord Italia fu notato da un produttore televisivo che lo fece debuttare in scenette e numeri musicali in alcuni programmi di varietà . In later years he emigrated from Salento , in the ranks and after a long night clubs Northern Italy was spotted by a television producer who debuted in skits and musical numbers in some programs of variety .


La sua vita si divise tra musica e televisione. Her life was divided between music and television. I primi dischi datavano 1956 ed erano 78 giri , per lo più di canzoni napoletane, registrati per la RCA Italiana ; con il passaggio al 45 giri , ed alla etichetta Columbia , arrivò il primo successo con "Simpatica" , di Garinei , Giovannini e Kramer . The first disc datavano 1956 and were 78's , mostly to Neapolitan songs, recorded on RCA Italian , with the shift to 45 rpm , and the label Columbia , the first success came with "sympathy" of Garinei , Giovannini and Kramer .


Nel 1958 partecipò a Canzonissima e, successivamente, si fece notare in un programma televisivo dal titolo Sentimentale , condotto da Lelio Luttazzi , al quale partecipava come ospite fisso , insieme con Mina . In 1958 he participated in Canzonissima and thereafter was noted in a television program entitled Sentimental, led by Lelio Luttazzi , attended as the guest star, along with Mina . L'omonima sigla divenne un disco di successo, inciso da entrambi i cantanti in due versioni differenti. The initials of the same name became a hit record, recorded by both singers in two different versions.
Nel frattempo, Nicola Arigliano continuò a coltivare la sua grande passione, il jazz , e partecipò a festival ed a manifestazioni dedicate (ad esempio il Festival del jazz del 1959 , insieme a Franco Cerri ), e poté evidenziare il suo stile da " crooner " . Meanwhile, Nicola Arigliano continued to cultivate his passion, jazz, and participated in festivals and exhibitions which (such as the Jazz Festival of 1959 , with Franco Cerri ), and was able to highlight its style from " crooner " .


Di questo periodo sono i maggiori successi discografici: Un giorno ti dirò , Amorevole , I sing ammore , My wonderful bambina , I love you forestiera . Of this period are the most successful record: One day I'll tell you , Loving , ammore I sing , My wonderful little girl , I love you stranger . I titoli bilingui erano un vezzo degli autori di canzoni di fine anni cinquanta , che vedevano nella "canzone-cartolina" un mezzo per propagandare le nostre bellezze turistiche (un noto esempio di questo genere è Arrivederci Roma di Renato Rascel ). The titles had a habit of bilingual songwriters end fifties , who saw in "song-postcard" a means to advertise our tourist attractions (a famous example of this kind is Arrivederci Roma by Renato Rascel ).


Nel 1963 fu protagonista di un altro show del sabato sera, Il cantatutto , con Milva e Claudio Villa , in cui si divertiva a scambiarsi il repertorio con gli altri due colleghi e ad esibirsi in gag e scenette comiche. In 1963 he was involved in another show on Saturday evening, The cantatutto with Milva and Claudio Villa , where he enjoyed exchanging the repertoire with two other colleagues, and performing in skits and gags.

Nel 1964 partecipò al Festival di Sanremo con Venti chilometri al giorno ed al 12° " Festival della Canzone Napoletana " con il motivo di Nisa e Salerno "Si' turnata" , eseguito in abbinamento con Sergio Bruni . In 1964 he participated in the Sanremo Festival with twenty miles a day and the 12th " Festival of Neapolitan Song "by reason of Nisa and Salerno" This 'turn', run in conjunction with Carlebach . Successivamente iniziò una lunga e fortunatissima carriera come testimonial pubblicitario, che gli assicurò ottimi introiti anche quando i suoi impegni musicali si diradarono, con il cambio generazionale e l'avvento dell'ondata beat . Then began a long and highly successful career as a testimonial advertising revenue that ensures excellent even when his musical commitments are less frequent, with generational change and the coming wave beat .
Nicola Arigliano tornò sorprendentemente in televisione nel 1977 in alcune puntate di Non stop , una trasmissione di Enzo Trapani dedicata al cabaret : era un pistolero vestito di nero che "uccideva" gli artisti a rivoltellate, pronunciando la battuta: « Non voglio noie nel mio locale! ». Nicola Arigliano surprisingly returned on television in 1977 in some point of no sleep, a transmission Enzo Trapani dedicated to comedy : he was a gunman dressed in black who "killed" the artists to revolvers, saying the joke: "I do not want trouble in my local !.
Nel 1985 realizzò un disco dal vivo ( Mario Schiano presenta Nicola Arigliano al night club "Il Sorpasso" - Con l'orchestra "I Primi" ) nel quale, a dispetto del titolo, Mario Schiano non era presente: era, infatti, l'organizzatore di alcune serate musicali presso Castel Sant'Angelo a Roma per festeggiare il "sorpasso" del PCI sulla DC alle elezioni Europee del 1984 (donde il nome night club "Il Sorpasso" ); suonarono però nel disco alcuni tra i più noti jazzisti italiani, come il tastierista dei Marc 4 , Antonello Vannucchi , Gegè Munari alla batteria e Giorgio Rosciglione al contrabbasso. In 1985 released a live album ( Mario Schiano presents Nicola Arigliano the night club "The Overtaking" - With the orchestra "The First" ) in which, despite the title, Mario Schiano was not present: it was, in fact, ' organizer of several musical evenings at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome to celebrate the "overtaking" of PCI on the DC to the European elections of 1984 (hence the name night club "The Overtaking"), but they played hard in some of the most famous Italian jazz musicians as the keyboardist Marc 4 , Antonello Vannucchi , Gege Munari on drums and George Rosciglione bass.
Nel 1996 vinse il Premio Tenco per il suo album I sing ancora . In 1996 he won the Tenco Award for his album I sing again .
Nel 2001 pubblicò Go man! , disco registrato dal vivo a Milano , con la presenza di alcuni tra i più noti jazzisti italiani: Franco Cerri , Enrico Rava , Gianni Basso , Bruno De Filippi , Renato Sellani e Massimo Moriconi . In 2001 he published as Go! , disc recorded live in Milan , with the presence of some of the best known Italian jazz musicians: Franco Cerri , Enrico Rava , Gianni Basso , Bruno De Filippi , Renato Sellani and Massimo Moriconi .
Nel marzo 2002 con la band di Ascolese prese parte ai festival jazz di Capodistria e Fiume . In March 2002 the band took part in jazz festivals Ascolese of Koper and Rijeka .
Nel 2003 prese corpo la proposta, avanzata da Fiorello , di avere Arigliano come ospite al Festival di Sanremo , allora condotto da Pippo Baudo ; poiché però il regolamento vietava ospiti italiani fuori gara, la federazione dei discografici (Fimi) si oppose, e svanì l'idea di un duetto fuori gara con Fiorello per la mancata adesione di quest'ultimo. In 2003 took shape the proposal made by Fiorello , have Arigliano as a guest at the Sanremo Festival , then led by Pippo Baudo , however, because the regulation prohibits Italian guests out of the race, the federation of record (FIMI) objected, and the vanished 'idea of a duet with Fiorello out of the race for any failure by the latter. Arigliano però vi gareggiò due anni dopo. But there Arigliano competed two years later. Nel 2005 , con i suoi ottantuno anni di età, è stato il cantante più anziano a partecipare ad un Festival di Sanremo : nell'occasione vi presentò il brano Colpevole , vincitore del Premio della Critica . In 2005 , with its eighty years of age, was the oldest singer to participate in a Festival of Sanremo : the occasion presents the song Guilty, winner of the Critics Prize . Nella serata del venerdì, quella delle versioni alternative, dopo l'esecuzione del brano in gara, che fu accompagnata da Antonello Vannucchi dei Marc 4 e Franco Cerri , gli fu permessa, grazie all'intercessione del conduttore Paolo Bonolis , una jam session con i suoi colleghi musicisti sulla base di On the sunny side of the street ^[2] . On the evening of Friday, that of alternate versions, after playing a song in the race, which was accompanied by Antonello Vannucchi of Marc 4 and Franco Cerri , he was allowed through the intercession of the conductor Paul Bonolis , a jam session with His fellow musicians on the basis of On the Sunny Side of the Street ^[2] . Il brano fu tuttavia eliminato dalle giurie e non ottenne la serata finale. The song was however deleted by the jury and did not get the final evening. Nell'estate dello stesso anno rivoluzionò il suo gruppo optando per una formazione senza pianoforte , che sostituiva con la fisarmonica e la chitarra : con questa versatile band ha aperto un periodo particolarmente attivo e fervido, riscuotendo dappertutto unanimi consensi. In the summer his group revolutionized opting for training without the piano , which replaced the accordion and guitar : this versatile band opened with a particularly active and ardent, receiving unanimous approval everywhere.
La sua ultima esibizione (con l'inseparabile Frank Antonucci alla chitarra, il Reverendo Otis al contrabbasso, Al Ventura alla fisarmonica e Santi Isgrò alla batteria) risale all' 8 settembre 2007 , in occasione del premio alla carriera che gli ha voluto tributare la sua Squinzano . His last performance (with the inseparable Frank Antonucci on guitar, the Reverend Otis on bass, Al Ventura on accordion and Saints Isgrò on drums) back to ' September 8th 2007 , during the lifetime achievement award that he wanted to bestow its Squinzano .
Nel 2007 , insieme ad un suo staff di collaboratori, ha inaugurato il suo myspace . In 2007 , along with his team of collaborators, has launched its myspace .
A gennaio del 2009 è uscito il primo di 3 CD, che si intitola L'altro Arigliano , ristampa di un suo album uscito nel 1980 , ampliato con alcune registrazioni più recenti. In January 2009 he released the first 3-CD, entitled The other Arigliano, reissue of an album released in 1980 , expanded with some more recent recordings. Un altro CD, My Wonderful Nicola , è uscito l'anno precedente. Another CD, My Wonderful Nicola, was released last year.
Saltuariamente si è anche cimentato come attore cinematografico ( La grande guerra , 1959 ; Ultimo tango a Zagarolo , 1973 ) e televisivo ( L'ispettore Giusti , 1999 ). Occasionally it has also tried his hand as a film actor ( The Great War , 1959 ; Last Tango in Zagarolo , 1973 ) and television ( The inspector Giusti , 1999 ).
È morto all'età di 86 anni nella notte tra il 30 ed il 31 marzo 2010 , presso il centro anziani "Gino Cucurachi" di Calimera , dove era ospitato da quattro anni ^{[3] [4]} . He died aged 86 on the night between 30 and 31 March 2010 , at the senior center "Gino Cucurachi" of Calimera , where he was housed in four years ^{[3] [4]} .

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Jaime Escalante, died he was 79,

Jaime Escalante died he was 79. Escalante was a Bolivian-born American school teacher who earned renown and distinction for his work at Garfield High School, East Los Angeles, California in teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

(December 31, 1930 — March 30, 2010)

Jaime Escalante was born in La Paz, Bolivia. While living in Bolivia he taught physics and mathematics for nine years. In 1964 he decided to move to the United States. To prepare, he began studying science and mathematics at University of Puerto Rico. Upon moving from Puerto Rico to California, Escalante could not speak English and had no valid American teaching credentials. He studied at night at Pasadena City College to earn a degree in biology. He took a day job at a computer corporation (Burroughs Corporation), while continuing his schooling at night to earn a mathematics degree at California State University, Los Angeles where he studied calculus.

In 1974 he began teaching at Garfield High School, East Los Angeles. Escalante was initially so disheartened by the lack of preparation of his students that he called his former employer and asked for his old job back. Escalante eventually changed his mind about returning to work when he found 12 students willing to take an algebra class.

Shortly after Escalante came to Garfield High, its reputation had sunk so low that its accreditation was threatened. Instead of gearing classes to poorly performing students, Escalante offered AP (advanced placement) calculus. He had already earned the criticism of an administrator who disapproved of his requiring the students to answer a homework question before being allowed into the classroom. "He told me to just get them inside," Escalante reported, "but I said, there is no teaching, no learning going on".

Determined to change the status quo, Escalante had to persuade the first few students who would listen to him that they could control their futures with the right education. He promised them that the jobs would be in engineering, electronics and computers but they would have to learn math to succeed. He said to his students "I'll teach you math and that's your language. With that you're going to make it. You're going to college and sit in the first row, not the back, because you're going to know more than anybody".

The school administration opposed Escalante frequently during his first few years. He was threatened with dismissal by an assistant principal because he was coming in too early, leaving too late, and failing to get administrative permission to raise funds to pay for his students' Advanced Placement tests. This opposition changed with arrival of a new principal, Henry Gradillas. Aside from allowing Escalante to stay as a math teacher, Gradillas overhauled the academic curriculum at Garfield, reducing the number of basic math classes and requiring those taking basic math to concurrently take algebra. He denied extracurricular activities to students who failed to maintain a C average and new students who failed basic skill tests.^{[citation needed]}

Escalante continued to teach at Garfield, but it was not until 1979 that Escalante would instruct his first calculus class. He hoped that it could provide the leverage to improve lower-level math courses. To this end, Escalante recruited fellow teacher Ben Jimenez and taught calculus to five students, two of whom passed the A.P. calculus test. The following year, the class size increased to nine students, seven of whom passed the A.P. calculus test. By 1981, the class had increased to 15 students, 14 of whom passed.

Escalante placed a high priority on pressuring his students to pass their math classes, particularly advanced calculus. He rejected the common practice of ranking students from first to last and instead frequently told his students to press themselves as hard as possible in their assignments. One of his students said, "If he wants to teach us that bad, we can learn."

In 1982, Escalante came into the national spotlight when 18 of his students passed the Advanced Placement calculus exam. The Educational Testing Service found these scores to be suspicious, because all of the students made the exact same math error on problem #6, and also used the same unusual variable names. Fourteen of those who passed were asked to take the exam again. Twelve of the 14 agreed to retake the test and did well enough to have their scores reinstated. In 1983, the number of students enrolling and passing the A.P. calculus test more than doubled. That year 33 students took the exam and 30 passed. That year Escalante also started teaching calculus at East Los Angeles College.

By 1987, 73 students passed the A.P. calculus AB exam and another 12 passed the BC version of the test. This was the peak for the calculus program. The same year Gradillas went on sabbatical to finish his doctorate with hopes that he could be reinstated as principal at Garfield or a similar school with similar programs upon his return.

Escalante was the ultimate performer in class, cracking jokes, rendering impressions and using all sorts of props -- from basketballs and wind-up toys to meat cleavers and space-alien dolls -- to explain complex mathematical concepts. Sports analogies abounded. A perfect parabola, for instance, was like a sky-hook by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. "Calculus Does Not Have To Be Made Easy -- It Is Easy Already," read a banner Escalante kept in his classroom.

1988 saw the release of a book Escalante: The Best Teacher in America by Jay Mathews (ISBN 0-8050-1195-1) and a movie Stand and Deliver detailing the events of 1982. During this time teachers and other interested observers asked to sit in on his classes. Escalante received visits from political leaders and celebrities, including then-President Ronald Reagan and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Escalante's dramatic success raised public consciousness of what it took to be not just a good teacher but a great one.

Escalante has described the film as "90% truth, 10% drama". He stated that several points were left out of the film:

• It took him several years to achieve the kind of success shown in the film.
• In no case was a student who didn't know multiplication tables or fractions taught calculus in a single year.
• Escalante suffered a gall-bladder attack, not a heart attack. This distinction was clouded over in the film.

Over the next few years Escalante's calculus program continued to grow but not without its own price. Tensions that surfaced when his career began at Garfield escalated. In his final years at Garfield, Escalante received threats and hate mail from various individuals.^[1]

By 1990, he had lost the math department chairmanship. At this point Escalante's math enrichment program had grown to 400+ students. His class sizes had increased to over 50 students in some cases. This was far beyond the 35 student limit set by the teachers' union, which in turn increased criticism of Escalante's work. In 1991, the number of Garfield students taking advanced placement examinations in math and other subjects jumped to 570. That same year, citing faculty politics and petty jealousies,^{[citation needed]} Escalante and Jimenez left Garfield. He immediately found new employment in Sacramento, California's school system.

Angelo Villavicencio took the reins of the program after their departure and taught the remaining 107 A.P. students in two classes for the next year. 67 of Villavicencio's students went on to take the A.P. exam and 47 passed. Villavicencio's request for a third class due to class size was denied and the following spring he followed Escalante and quit Garfield. The math program's decline at Garfield became immediately apparent following the departure of Escalante and other teachers associated with its inception and development. In just a few years, the number of A.P. calculus students at Garfield who passed their exams dropped by more than 80 percent. In 1996, Angelo Villavicencio contacted Garfield's new principal, Tony Garcia, and offered to come back to help revive the dying calculus program. His offer was rejected.^[1]

Unpopular with fellow teachers, Escalante won few major teaching awards in the United States. He liked to be judged by his results, a concept still resisted by the majority of his profession. The results were what mattered to him -- the young minds he held captive three decades ago are engineers, lawyers, doctors, teachers and administrators today.

Escalante didn't just teach math. Like all great teachers, he changed lives. Gang members became aerospace engineers. Kids who had spent their youth convinced their lives didn’t matter discovered that they were leaders.

He exposed one of the most dangerous myths of our time – that inner city students can't be expected to perform at the highest levels. Because of him, that destructive idea has been shattered forever.

In 2001, after many years of preparing teenagers for the A.P. calculus exam, Escalante returned to his native Bolivia. He lived in his wife's hometown, Cochabamba, and taught part time at the local university. He returned to the United States frequently to visit his children.

As of March 2010^[update], he faced financial difficulties from the cost of his cancer treatment. Cast members from Stand and Deliver, including Edward James Olmos, and some of Escalante's former pupils, raised funds to help pay for his medical bills.

Jaime Escalante moved to Sacramento, California, which facilitated the commute to Nevada for his medical treatments.^[2] He died on March 30, 2010, aged 79, at his son's home near Sacramento while undergoing treatment for bladder cancer.^[3][4] He is survived by his wife Fabiola and his sons Fernando and Jaime Jr.^[5]

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David Mills ‘'The Wire’ Writer died he was 49

Just weeks before his latest show Treme debuts on HBO, TV writer and producer David Mills has died of a reported brain aneurysm in New Orleans at the age of 49. Mills was head writer and producer on the show, which is about how a group of people of New Orleans rebuild their lives after Hurricane Katrina.

In additon to Treme, Mills

 (1961–2010)

was an accomplished and award winning writer for such shows as the HBO miniseries The Corner, ER, Homicide: Life on the Street, Kingpin, NYPD Blue and was a story editor on the CBS drama Picket Fences.
Mills also worked closely for years with David Simon, creator of one of the best shows ever to grace television screens The Wire and who is also the creator of Treme. He also wrote for several newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

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Choi Jin-Young died he was 39

Another tragedic news from Korean Entertainment industry. Actor and singer (Sky) Choi Jin-Young was announced dead on March 29th, 2010 around 2:45 PM. He was first found in critical condition in his house and was quickly sent to Yonsei hospital where he was announced dead. There was a bruise around his neck area and it is assumed that he had commited a suicide. Choi Jin-Young was 39.





Choi Jin-Young is famous for being a younger brother of a Korean actress Choi Jin-Shil who also ended her life with her own will on October of 2008. Choi Jin-Young was very close with his sister Choi Jin-Shil. He was suffering from depression after her death and was taking the same anti-depression pills that his sister had taken. It is being told that Choi Jin-Young had committed to suicide at least once after his sister passed away. However, the assumed suicide seems to be a spontaneous one because Choi Jin-Young had an appointment to meet someone on the day of his death.

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ELLIOT A. WILLENSKY died he was 66

ELLIOT A. WILLENSKY Acclaimed Composer and Lyricist Elliot, passed away on Monday, March 29, 2010 in Summit, New Jersey, at age 66, after suffering a stroke.

Elliot Willensky, who composed songs for the late Michael Jackson solo smash hit, 'Got To Be There".Willensky wrote songs for dozens of musical luminaries, including Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Thelma Houston, Syreeta and Jerry Butler.

Willensky's duet, "If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful," sung by Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston, became, according to People Magazine, one of the top 10 songs performed at weddings.

"He was a romantic," Steven Willensky said. "He had a love and passion for song writing."

After graduating from Bayonne High School, Willensky earned a Bachelors' degree in
biology from Boston University and did post-graduate studies at BU and the University of Massachusetts.

He was a research scientist in Maryland when he followed his passion for music and became a songwriter in 1969.

He was 27 and living in Los Angeles when Motown Records accepted his song as Michael Jackson's first solo single, "Got To Be There."

The song went gold and later became a hit for Chaka Khan.

His TV credits include The Bell Telephone Hour, music coordinator of Tony Orlando and Dawn Show, and jingles for Hertz, Fresca, and Chrysler.

His last project before he died was writing "When It's Time To Say Goodbye" for an upcoming documentary about the life of Karen Ann Quinlan.

He is survived by his mother Gertrude Berlin Willensky Sussman, brothers Fred and Steven, and nieces Rona and Marisa and nephew David.

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Bill McIntyre died he was 81

William McIntyre, who was often credited as Bill McIntyre,  was an American actor, whose credits included roles in Newhart, Dallas and Murphy Brown died he was 81.^[1] He also had a long career in theater, including Off Broadway and in regional productions.^[1]

(September 2, 1929 - March 19, 2010)

McIntyre was born in Rochester, New York, but raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan.^[1] He toured with numerous regional theater companies, including the Guthrie Theater company in Minnesota, Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut, and the McCarter Theatre of Princeton, New Jersey.^[1] He also toured with the national company of The Great White Hope.^[1]
His Broadway theater credits included The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, opposite actress Maureen Stapleton.^[1] McIntyre appeared in The Fantasticks off Broadway.^[1]
McIntyre's last public performance was in the New York City production of You Can't Take It with You.^[1] He died of natural causes in Englewood, New Jersey, at the age of 80.^[1] He had been staying at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood.

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Peter Herbolzheimer died he was 74,

Peter Herbolzheimer died he was 81. Herbolzheimer was a German jazz trombonist and bandleader.

(31 December 1935 - 27 March 2010)

Herbolzheimer was born in Bucharest and migrated from communist Romania to West Germany in 1951. In 1953 he moved to the United States of America, where he worked as guitarist.

He returned to Germany in 1957, took up the trombone and for one year studied at the Nuremberg Conservatory. In the 1960s he played with the Nuremberg radio dance orchestra and with Bert Kämpfert's orchestra. In 1968 he became member of the pit orchestra of Hamburg theater (Deutsches Schauspielhaus) directed by Hans Koller. In 1969 Herbolzheimer formed his Rhythm Combination and Brass (RC&B) for which he wrote most of the arrangements. This big band was unique in that it had an international lineup of eight brass, but originally only one saxophone, with Herb Geller in that chair. The list of brass players included Allan Botschinsky (Denmark), Art Farmer (USA), Dusko Goykovich (Bosnia), Palle Mikkelborg (Denmark), Ack van Rooyen (Netherlands) and Jiggs Whigham (USA). The rhythm section consisted of two keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and percussion and included renowned musicians such as Dieter Reith (Germany), Philip Catherine (Belgium), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (Denmark), Bo Stief (Denmark), Alex Riel (Denmark), Grady Tate (USA), and Nippy Noya (Indonesia). For special events the group was augmented as necessary, but the basic combination remained as such for several years. In the late 1970s the band toured successfully with a "jazz gala" program featuring guest stars such as Esther Phillips, Stan Getz, Nat Adderley, Gerry Mulligan, Toots Thielemans, Clark Terry (( Tony Lujan)) and Albert Mangelsdorff. In later years the RC&B played many concert tours, television shows and jazz festivals. It was later replaced by a regular sized big band that is still active today.

In 1972 Herbolzheimer wrote music for the Edelhagen Band's opening of the Olympic Games in Munich. Later he worked for German television as leader and arranger, and accompanied visiting American musicians such as Al Jarreau and Dizzy Gillespie. Between 1987 and 2006 Herbolzheimer was the musical director of Germany's national youth jazz orchestra, the BundesJazzOrchester (BuJazzo). He conducted regular workshops and clinics for big band jazz.

In 1974 Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass entered an annual television competition held in the Belgian seaside resort Knokke, winning the coveted Golden Swan Award. He also won the International Jazz Composers Competition 1974 in Monaco. Herbolzheimer's arrangements are a distinctive amalgam of swing, latin and rhythmic rock music.

Herbolzheimer died aged 74 in his hometown of Cologne, Germany on 27 March 2010.

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Herb Ellis died he was 88

Mitchell Herbert (Herb) Ellis was an American jazz guitarist died he was 88.

(August 4, 1921 - March 28, 2010[1])

Growing up on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, Ellis first heard the electric guitar performed by George Barnes on a radio program. This experience is said to have inspired him to take up the guitar. He became proficient on the instrument by the time he entered North Texas State University as a music major. Ellis majored in music, but because they did not yet have a guitar program at that time, he studied the string bass. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, his college days were short lived. In 1941 Herb dropped out of college and toured for 6 months with a band from the University of Kansas.
In 1943 joined Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and it was with Gray's band that he got his first recognition in the jazz magazines. After Gray's band, Ellis joined the Jimmy Dorsey band where he played some of his first recorded solos. Ellis remained with Dorsey through 1947, traveling and recording extensively, and playing in dance halls and movie palaces. Then came a turnabout that would change Ellis's career forever. Then, as pianist Lou Carter told journalist Robert Dupuis in a 1996 interview, "The Dorsey band had a six-week hole in the schedule. The three of us had played together some with the big band. John Frigo, who had already left the band, knew the owner of the Peter Stuyvesant Hotel in Buffalo. We went in there and stayed six months. And that's how the group the Soft Winds were born."





The Soft Winds was fashioned after the Nat King Cole Trio. They stayed together until 1952. Herb Ellis then joined the Oscar Peterson Trio (replacing Barney Kessel), forming what Scott Yanow would later on refer to as "one of the most memorable of all the piano, guitar, and bass trios in jazz history".



Ellis became prominent after performing with the Oscar Peterson Trio from 1953 to 1958 along with pianist Peterson and bassist Ray Brown. He was a somewhat controversial member of the trio, because he was the only white person in the group in a time when racism was still very much widespread.
In addition to their great live and recorded work as the Oscar Peterson Trio, this unit served as the virtual "house rhythm section" for Norman Granz's Verve Records, supporting the likes of tenormen Ben Webster and Stan Getz, as well as trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, and Sweets Edison and other jazz stalwarts. With drummer Buddy Rich, they were also the backing band for popular "comeback" albums by the duet of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
The trio were also the mainstays of Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts as they swept the jazz world, almost constantly touring the United States and Europe. Ellis left the Peterson Trio in November 1958, to be replaced not by a guitarist, but by drummer Ed Thigpen. The years of 1959 through 1960 found Ellis touring with Ella Fitzgerald.
The three provided a stirring rendition of "Tenderly" as a jazz improvisational backdrop to John Hubley's 1958 cartoon The Tender Game, Storyboard Film's version of the age-old story of boy falling head over heels for girl.^[2]
With fellow jazz guitarists Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd and Joe Pass, he created another ensemble, the Great Guitars.




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Johnny Maestro, Brooklyn Bridge Singer, Dies at 70

Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge (or simply The Brooklyn Bridge) is an American musical group, best known for their rendition of Jimmy Webb’s "The Worst That Could Happen" (1968).

(born John Mastrangelo; May 7, 1939 – March 24, 2010)

Brooklyn-born Johnny Maestro began his career in 1957 as the original lead singer of The Crests, one of the first interracial groups of the recording industry. ^{[1] [2]} Patricia VanDross, older sister to famed R&B singer Luther Vandross sang with Johnny Maestro during his tenure as lead vocalists with The Crests. After a regional hit with "My Juanita"/"Sweetest One" on the Joyce label, and two years of chart success on Coed Records with "16 Candles", "Step by Step", "The Angels Listened In", and "Trouble in Paradise", Maestro left the Crests for a solo career. Maestro was unable to reach his former chart heights with the Crests, but did have Top 40 hits with "What A Surprise" and "Model Girl" in 1961 and 1962.

By 1967, another New York group called the Del-Satins, who had made several non-charting recordings between 1959 and 1967 under their own name (and backing up Dion on his post-Belmonts recordings), were looking for a new lead singer to replace original lead Stan Ziska. Other members were brothers Fred and Tom Ferrara (baritone and bass), Les Cauchi (first tenor) and Bobby Failla (second tenor). According to Cauchi, members of the group ran into Maestro at a local gym, playing his guitar, and approached him with the offer to join the group. After initially turning them down, Maestro's manager called Cauchi and told him Maestro had changed his mind.^{[citation needed]}

In 1968, after touring locally and playing in clubs and small venues, the Del-Satins attended a "Battle of the Bands" and encountered a seven piece brass group named the Rhythm Method. Impressed with each other's skills and talents, the groups decided to try to join forces. The name supposedly came from the joke that the group would be "harder to sell than the Brooklyn Bridge".^{[citation needed]}

Johnny and the Bridge rehearsed their unusual combination of smooth vocal harmonies and full horns, and signed a recording contract with Buddha records. Their first release, a version of the Jimmy Webb song "The Worst That Could Happen" (a note-for-note cover of the version previously recorded by The 5th Dimension on the album The Magic Garden, which had not been released as a single), reached No. 3 on the Billboard pop chart. The follow up, "Welcome Me Love", and its flip side, Blessed is the Rain — both by Tony Romeo —^[3] each reached the Top 50. A dramatic version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" and the controversial "Your Husband, My Wife" also reached the middle ranges of the charts. The group sold over 10 million records by 1972, including LP sales, mostly produced by Wes Farrell. Appearances on Ed Sullivan, The Della Reese Show and other programs helped to bring the group to the national stage.

After its heyday, The Brooklyn Bridge downsized to a five-man group, with the vocalists playing their own instruments. For example, Maestro could be seen on stage playing rhythm guitar, while former Rhythm Method bassist Jim Rosica picked up a vocal part. Later in the 1970s, as the Rock and Roll Revival evolved from a nostalgic fad to a respected genre, the group began to add members, retaining its core vocalists. By 1985, the group had solidified into an eight piece group, including original Del Satins Cauchi and Fred Ferrara and original Bridge member Rosica, and augmented by a horn section for special occasions. The drummer for the current line up Lou Agiesta, was the drummer for the original American touring company of Jesus Christ Superstar.

The later version of the Brooklyn Bridge released a Christmas EP in 1989 and a greatest hits compilation in 1993, re-recording Maestro's hits with The Crests. In the early 1990s, Maestro moonlighted as the background tenor on Joel Katz's studio project CD "Joel & the Dymensions" (which also featured baritone-bass Bobby Jay). In 1994, The Brooklyn Bridge recorded a 10-song a cappella CD.

Recently, the Brooklyn Bridge was featured in one of PBS's biggest fundraising events ever, "Doo Wop 50", performing both "Sixteen Candles" and "The Worst That Could Happen" (the entire program was released on VHS and DVD). In 2005, the Brooklyn Bridge released a full concert-length DVD as part of the "Pops Legends Live" series. They continue to tour and in 2004 released a CD titled "Today", featuring more re-recordings of their hits and versions of other groups' songs of the 1950s and 60's.

The Brooklyn Bridge was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall Of Fame with the class of 2005.

The Brooklyn Bridge were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006. On March 31, 2009 Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge released Today Volume 2.

Johnny Maestro died on March 24, 2010 from cancer in Cape Coral, Florida at age 70.^[4]

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Chet Simmons died he was 81

Chester Robert "Chet" Simmons died he was 81. Simmons was an American sports executive, working at three different television networks sports divisions (first ABC, later becoming President of NBC Sports, and then in 1979 becoming the first President of ESPN) before becoming the first Commissioner of the United States Football League in 1982.

(July 11, 1928 – March 25, 2010)

Born in New York City on July 11, 1928, Simmons was raised in Ossining, New York and Pawtucket, Rhode Island.^[1] His love for sports began when he was a child listening to Brooklyn Dodgers games on the family car's radio.^[2] He graduated first with a bachelor's degree in broadcasting from the University of Alabama in 1950, then a Master of Science in television from Boston University.^[3] He served in the United States Coast Guard after completing his graduate studies.^[4] His first employment following his military stint was at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample.^[1]
Simmons' television broadcasting management career began in 1957 when he accepted an invitation from Edgar Scherick to join Sports Programs Inc.,^[1] which would evolve into ABC Sports four years later.^[4] Called by colleague Roone Arledge "the sanest of my office mates," Simmons played a major role in laying the groundwork for establishing ABC as American television's leading network for sports.^[1]
Simmons also worked for NBC Sports of which he was also the president at one time.
Slightly more than five weeks prior to ESPN's official launch on September 7, 1979, Simmons became its founding president and chief operating officer on July 31.^[5] He left ESPN in 1982 over differences with executives from Getty Oil, at the time the network's parent company which was losing millions of dollars a year on the venture.^[1]
Simmons was appointed the first commissioner of the United States Football League a month after its formation in 1982. Due to his background in the medium, a drawback of the hiring was that it further fueled the perception that the new circuit was a "made for television" entity. One of the USFL's first accomplishments under his watch was the signing of a two-year contract with ESPN. It was the cable network's first-ever agreement with a sports league to televise select regular-season games. The USFL also had a two-year deal with ABC, but it was consummated before Simmons' hiring.^[6][7]
The league incurred heavy financial losses in its first two campaigns. Even though he worked closely to help promote each of the franchises, Simmons increasingly came under fire from some club owners for failing to negotiate a more lucrative network television deal. Prior to the 1985 season, the contract with ESPN was renewed for three years. ABC, knowing that the USFL was moving to an autumn schedule in 1986 in direct competition with the more-established National Football League, picked up only one of its two one-year options.^[6]
Simmons resigned as USFL commissioner on January 14, 1985. He was succeeded by Harry Usher, an attorney who had served as the executive vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.^[6]
Simmons resided in Savannah, Georgia from 1986 until his move to Tybee Island in the mid-1990s.^[2] He was an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina, where he taught and mentored students in its Department of Sport & Entertainment Management.^[3] Simmons died of natural causes in Atlanta, Georgia on March 25, 2010.^[8]



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Dick Giordano died he was 77

Dick Giordano died he was 77. He was born Richard Joseph Giordano; ^[2]) Giordano was an American comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes, and serving as executive editor of then industry-leader DC Comics. As an inker, Giordano is well known for his pairings with penciler Neal Adams in a series of critically acclaimed comics featuring Batman, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow.

(July 20, 1932[1] – March 27, 2010)

Dick Giordano was born in New York City, in the borough of Manhattan. Beginning as a freelance artist at Charlton Comics in 1952, Giordano rose to editor-in-chief by 1965.^[3] He made his first mark in the industry with Charlton, overseeing the revamping of its few existing superheroes and having his artists and writers create new such characters for what he called the company's "Action Hero" line. (Many of these artists included new talent Giordano brought on board, featuring such names as Jim Aparo, Denny O'Neil, and Steve Skeates.)^[3]

DC Comics' then-publisher Carmine Infantino hired Giordano as an editor in 1967, with Giordano also bringing over to DC many of the creators he had nurtured at Charlton.^[3] While none of his titles (such as Bat Lash and Deadman) were a commercial hit, they were critical successes.

By 1971 Giordano had left DC to partner with artist Neal Adams for their Continuity Associates studios, which served as an art packager for comic book publishers, including such companies as Giordano's former employer Charlton Comics,^[4] Marvel Comics, and the one-shot Big Apple Comix. Continuity served as the launching pad for the careers of a number of professional cartoonists, many of whom were mentored by Giordano during their time there.

As a penciller, he drew numerous Batman and Wonder Woman stories for DC, as well as the martial arts feature "Sons of the Tiger" in Marvel's black-and-white comics magazine The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.

In 1980 new DC publisher Jenette Kahn brought Giordano back to DC.^[5] Initially the editor of the Batman titles, Giordano was named the company's new managing editor in 1981,^[6] and promoted to Vice President/Executive Editor in 1983 (a position he held until 1993).^[3] With Kahn and Paul Levitz, Giordano helped relaunch such major characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, the Justice League of America, and the Teen Titans. By the end of the 1980s, they had also created the critically acclaimed, mature-audience Vertigo imprint, under initial editor Karen Berger, and began an influx of British talent such as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman.

During this period, until he left the company, Giordano wrote a monthly column published in DC titles called "Meanwhile..." which (much like Marvel's "Bullpen Bulletins") featured news and information about the company and its creators. (Giordano closed each "Meanwhile..." column with the characteristic words, "Thank you and good afternoon.") Giordano also continued to ink, such as over George Pérez's pencils on the 1986 crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths, and John Byrne's pencils on The Man of Steel and Action Comics.

Beginning in 1985, Giordano was in the middle of an industry-wide debate about the comics industry and creators' rights. Veteran writers Mike Friedrich, Steven Grant, and Roger Slifer all cited Giordano in particular for his hard-line stance on behalf of DC.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} This debate led in part to the 1988 drafting of the Creator's Bill of Rights.

Giordano left DC and went into semi-retirement in 1993, still doing the occasional inking job.^[12] In 1994 Giordano illustrated a graphic novel adaptation of the novel Modesty Blaise released by DC Comics (ISBN 1-56389-178-6), with creator/writer Peter O'Donnell.

In 2002, Giordano helped launch Future Comics with writer David Michelinie and artist Bob Layton. Future Comics closed down after only two-and-a-half years in business in 2004.

Since 2002 he has also drawn several issues of The Phantom published in Europe and Australia. In the mid-2000s, he began sitting on the board of directors of the comic industry charity A Commitment To Our Roots (ACTOR), renamed in 2006 the Hero Initiative. In 2005, F+W Publications Inc. published Drawing Comics with Dick Giordano (which he wrote and illustrated), a book in which he shares his drawing methods and techniques that he used in comics.

[edit] Personal life

Giordano was married for many years to the former Marie Trapani (sister of fellow comics artist Sal Trapani), who died from stomach cancer in 1993.^[13] Marie's death, combined with Giordano's increasing hearing loss, hastened his decision to retire from DC.^[14]

Giordano split time between homes in Florida and Connecticut.^[3]

As an artist, Giordano is best-known as an inker. His inking is particularly associated with the pencils of Neal Adams, for their run in the late 1960s and early 1970s on the titles Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow for DC Comics. Giordano also inked the large-format, first DC/Marvel Comics intercompany crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man (1976), over the pencils of Ross Andru. Giordano also inked Adams on the one-shot Superman vs. Muhammad Ali in 1978. Throughout the late 1970s and the 1980s, Andru and Giordano were DC's primary cover artists, providing cover artwork for almost every title in the DC line at that time.
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