Odeum: 12.08

Dec 30, 2008

"What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" by Nancy Wilson

"Let There Be Peace" by Gladys Knight

Let There Be Peace!

We live in a dangerous world.
Somewhere ugliness rears its head.
War begins, People die ...
For what the lines are blurred.
Yet we keep on fighting,
No end there seems to be,
For Peace is but a dream,
The future spilt in blood,
Innocence forever gone.
And so I ask the daunting question,
How will we survive?
Through peace!

by :Pj

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Influential jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard has died in Los Angeles aged 70, his spokesman said.

Hubbard, who played alongside legendary figures such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, passed away in a Sherman Oaks, California hospital following complications from a heart attack suffered last month.

The Grammy-winning musician was renowned for his "hard bop" trumpet style found on several albums during the 1960s, most notably Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" and Coltrane's "Ascension." His trumpet-playing can be found in over 300 albums.

His breakthrough record, 1961's "Ready for Freddie", was the first of several successful collaborations with saxophonist Wayne Shorter.

Hubbard, who won a Grammy in 1972 for his album "First Light," was honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Masters Award in 2006.

His last record, "On the Real Side," came out in June. –Yahoo News

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Dec 28, 2008

"Circle of Life" by Elton John
From Lion King (Animation)

Dec 27, 2008

Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.

Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday of colon cancer.

Kitt, a self-proclaimed "sex kitten" famous for her catlike purr, was one of America's most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and nabbing a third nomination. She also was nominated for several Tonys and two Grammys.

Her career spanned six decades, from her start as a dancer with the famed Katherine Dunham troupe to cabarets and acting and singing on stage, in movies and on television. She persevered through an unhappy childhood as a mixed-race daughter of the South and made headlines in the 1960s for denouncing the Vietnam War during a visit to the White House. –NBC New York News

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