Playing on the edge of a precipice

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Django Bates is a successful pianist abroad but has yet to gain a recording contract in his own country. He has been composer and pianist on many European jazz albums. He is now recording his part in a project sponsored by Blue Note Records and Technics. Previously leader of the defunct 'Loose Tubes' band, the 31-year-old is an eminent composer and bandleader. His new big band is Delightful Precipice. Marian Meadows is a saxophonist who studied with Joe Henderson, Sonny Fortune and Dave Leiban. He played free jazz with the Aboriginal Music Society, New York. His music is optimistic. He plays the soprano saxaphone.

Personalities, Performances, Jazz musicians, Saxophonists, Bates, Django, Meadows, Marion

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What Was is now

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The most exciting part of performing pop music is touring, according to music producer Don Was. He first came to public attention with hits group Was (Not Was) in the early 1980s, and later began a career as a producer in the UK with Floy Joy, Helen Terry and Boy George. He was worked with Ringo Starr in recent years, and is now to tour with a band which includes Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. The band plans to record later in 1997, and will perform at Farm-Aid.

Interview, Music producers (Persons), Sound recording executives and producers, Was, Don

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They're playing my song again

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The Quentin Tarantino film 'Jackie Brown' has served to revive interest in the music of soul singer Bobby Womack. The film features his song 'Across 110th Street,' which appeared in the 1972 black film of the same name. Womack has had an extremely varied career, with some great successes and some notable failures. He is particularly respected for the series of albums he recorded for United Artists and Liberty just after 'Across 110th Street' in the mid-1970s.

Sound recordings, Soul music, Womack, Bobby

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