musical excerpts, fyi. randye
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:00:40 -0400
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Subject: 0731 - Today in Black History - July 31
1931 - Kenny Burrell is born in Detroit, Michigan. He will become a prolific
composer and professional musician specializing in the guitar. For
over forty years, he will be a jazz professional. Kenny, who will
credit Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as
influences, as well as such bluesmen as T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters,
will play on his first major recording session in Detroit in 1951 with
a Dizzy Gillespie combo that will include John Coltrane, Milt Jackson,
and Percy Heath. Even though the young guitarist will keep heavy
company, including that of such other up-and-coming Detroiters as
Tommy Flanagan, Yusef Lateef, Pepper Adams, and Elvin Jones, he will
remain in Detroit to study at Wayne State University, from which he
will earn a B.A. in music composition and theory in 1955. He will also
study classical guitar with Joseph Fava during that period and continue
to employ finger-style and other techniques. After the mid-Sixties,
he will lead his own group plus work in "All-Star" settings and will
perform with college bands and orchestras. He will also perform with
professional orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony and the Buffalo
Philharmonic.
1985 - Prince is big at the box-office with the autobiographical story of the
Minneapolis rock star -- "Purple Rain." The film grosses $7.7 million
in its first three days of release on 917 movie screens. The album of
the same name is, at the time, the top LP in the United States, as well.
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