Daily entertainment news covering Charlie Parker en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/08/29/celebrity_birthdays_august_156 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 133480@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to:

King of Pop Michael Jackson (1958; d. 2009)

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/22/check_out_the_airborne_toxic_event_s_som_5 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EST Entertainment News 93463@http://www.starpulse.com/news When The Airborne Toxic Event took the stage at Spaceland in Silver Lake on January 31st of this year, the 400-capacity venue was a madhouse.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/06/25/rap_rock_classical_music_to_obama_s_ears Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:48:10 EST Entertainment News 90951@http://www.starpulse.com/news WASHINGTON (AP) - Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/16/fascinating_facts_109 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:45:09 EST Entertainment News 60141@http://www.starpulse.com/news Evanescence star Amy Lee's minister grandfather performed the rocker's marriage ceremony in her parents' back garden. Lee's granddad also wed her mother and father.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/29/celebrity_birthdays_august_60 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 54450@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Simple Plan bassist David Desrosiers (1980), actress Carla Gugino (1971), singer Me'Shell NdegeOcello (1969), Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser (1963), actress Rebecca De Mornay (1962), King of Pop Michael Jackson (1958), TV host Robin Leach (1941), film directors Joel Schumacher and William Friedkin (1939), actor Elliott Gould (1938), Arizona senator John McCain (1936), singer Dinah Washington (1924; d. 1963), musician Charlie Parker (1920; d. 1955), "The Jeffersons" star Isabel Sanford (1917; d. 2004), actor George Montgomery (1916; d. 2000), and "Casablanca" actress Ingrid Bergman (1915; d. 1982).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/10/pianist_sal_mosca_dies Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:34:21 EST Entertainment News 55394@http://www.starpulse.com/news Jazz pianist Sal Mosca has died from complications brought on by emphysema. He was 80. Mosca passed away at a hospital in White Plains, New York on July 28. Born Salvatore Joseph Mosca on 27 April 1927, he worked with jazz greats like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/15/tennessee_s_bonnaroo_festival_will_add_j Tue, 15 May 2007 08:41:41 EST Entertainment News 42546@http://www.starpulse.com/news MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - The Bonnaroo Music Festival is adding a jazz tent to its sprawling festival, sponsored by the renowned Blue Note label. Among the performers slated to perform at the festival, scheduled June 14-17 on a 700-acre farm 60 miles southeast of Nashville, are Stefon Harris, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glapser, and Jacky Terrasson, according to a statement released Monday.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/03/at_76_jazz_giant_sonny_rollins_still_per Thu, 03 May 2007 15:02:39 EST Entertainment News 40797@http://www.starpulse.com/news GERMANTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - The photos of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and other musicians lining the walls of Sonny Rollins' cottage studio resemble a jazz hall of fame. But for the tenor saxophonist the pictures are reminders of departed friends and mentors with whom he once shared a bandstand.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/12/07/tortured_roles_take_their_toll_on_forest Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:20:24 EST Entertainment News 23282@http://www.starpulse.com/news Forest Whitaker regrets playing tortured characters in films, as he finds it hard to shake them off when the cameras stop rolling. The actor, famed for his role as Jazz legend Charlie Parker in 1988s Bird, gets so close to the dramatic characters he plays, they seep into his life off set.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/29/celebrity_birthdays_august_29 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:00:13 EST Entertainment News 13666@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Simple Plan bassist David Desrosiers (1980), actress Carla Gugino (1971), singer Me'Shell NdegeOcello (1969), Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser (1963), actress Rebecca De Mornay (1962), King of Pop Michael Jackson (1958), tv host Robin Leach (1941), film directors Joel Schumacher and William Friedkin (1939), actor Elliott Gould (1938), Arizona senator John McCain (1936), singer Dinah Washington (1924; d. 1963), musician Charlie Parker (1920; d. 1955), "The Jeffersons" star Isabel Sanford (1917; d. 2004), actor George Montgomery (1916; d. 2000), and "Casablanca" actress Ingrid Bergman (1915; d. 1982).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/06/13/legendary_jazz_pianist_oscar_peterson_to Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:54:30 EST Entertainment News 8183@http://www.starpulse.com/news "One of the most brilliant pianists in the history of jazz, [his] prodigious technique and unparalleled swing makes him a master in every style… from boogie and stride to bebop and beyond." - BBC Radio 3 Universally acclaimed musician jazz pianist Oscar Peterson returns to the UK to play a series of three rare concerts -

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/02/24/movie_snippets_chet_baker_biopic_howard_ Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:11:12 EST Entertainment News 3597@http://www.starpulse.com/news * Josh Hartnett is set to play tragic jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in a biopic. The film will chronicle the life of Oklahoma-born Baker, real name Chesney Henry Baker, Jr., his rise to stardom after being discovered by saxophonist Charlie Parker and his descent into heroin addiction. Baker's death in May 1988 was shrouded in speculation.

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