Max Roach was one of my favorite jazz musicians, and to me, one of its most consequential. Along with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and a few others, he ushered in the movement known as Bebop—a riveting style of jazz characterized by complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and fast tempos that had its ...
During the 90s, I used to see Keith Jarrett quite often as he used to dine at an Italian restaurant across from Carnegie Hall called Trattoria Dell’Arte that I used to manage along with my colleagues Sandra Scandiber, Debra Moore, and Russell Raiteri. At the time, Jarrett was at the peak of his career. With ...
Richard Widmark
Max Roach
Sammy Davis Jr.
Éric de Rothschild
Charles Bronson
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Jackie Onassis
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
Keith Jarrett
David Rockefeller
Arthur Miller
Sam Cohn
Al Pacino
Tom Jones
Diana Ross
Natasha Richardson & Liam Neeson
George Balanchine and Tanaquil Le Clerq
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