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Subject: 0309 - Today in Black History - March 09
1930 - Ornette Coleman is born in Fort Worth, Texas. He will become a
self-taught musician, beginning on alto saxophone when he is
fourteen and moving on to the tenor saxophone when he is sixteen.
He will be influenced by Charlie Parker, Illinois Jacquet and Big
Jay McNeely. A born improvisionalist, he found it difficult to
fit into his school band as well as the mainstream groups that
he will later join. It wasn't until the late 1950's that he will
be recognized for his jazz innovations. He will name his musical
method "harmolodics." Many musicians and critics and jazz
listeners will reject his new jazz as formless and abstract.
However, critics of his method will recognize his importance as a
composer. Critics will praise his compositions, including "Peace,"
"Lonely Woman," and "Beauty Is a Rare Thing." In 1967 he will win
a Guggenheim fellowship, the first granted to a jazz musician. He
will compose and perform film scores, including "Chappaqua"
(1965), "Box Office" (1981), and "Naked Lunch" (1991). In 1997
the New York Philharmonic will perform his "Skies of America," a
large-scale work that was first recorded by the London Symphony
Orchestra in 1972.
1933 - Lloyd Price is born. He will become a successful Rhythm & Blues
artist and will record "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" ('52 #1 R&B), "Oooh,
Oooh, Oooh" ('52 #4 R&B), "Ain't It A Shame" ('53 #4 R&B), "Just
Because" ('57 #3 R&B, #29 Pop), "Stagger Lee" ('58 #1 R&B, #1
Pop), "Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)" ('59 #4 R&B, #23
Pop), Personality" ('59 #1 R&B, #2 Pop), and fifteen other hits.
1948 - Jeffrey Osborne is born. He will become an accomplished rhythm
and blues singer performing as lead singer for the group LTD.
He will later become a successful solo artist.
1997 - The popular "gangsta rapper" Notorious B.I.G., whose real name is
Christopher Wallace, joins the ancestors after being killed in a
drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California at the age of 24.
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