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  Eugene Wright, bassist with classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, dies aged 97

  Eugene Wright, bassist with classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, dies aged 97. Last surviving member of group who cut Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk was described as an ‘honorary uncle to the Brubeck family’

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  Billie review: A fanatical yet fascinating portrait of an immortal talent

  It is filtered through the eyes and preoccupations of part-time journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl. An articulate Jewish feminist, Kuehl spent years interviewing Holiday’s lovers, colleagues and family. It’s clear Kuehl wanted to be infected by Holiday’s cool but whether her interest was vaguely dodgy or slightly tragic — she died in strange circumstances in 1979 — is left open.

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  Billie Holiday documentary: Excavating the past to uncover a dark, dazzling life

  Strange Fruit was a turning point. Recorded in 1939, many credit the song with sowing the first seeds of the civil rights movement — its haunting depictions of Black Americans being lynched came 16 years before Rosa Parks demanded her rightful place on the bus. For its singer, Billie Holiday, it was similarly pivotal.

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  Billie, review: an unflinching look at the sensual, addicted, magnificent Miss Holiday

  Dir: James Erskine. 15 cert, 98 min “I always wanted to sing like Louis Armstrong played.” To hear this from the mouth of Billie Holiday herself, in one of the few interviews she ever gave, is somehow more of a revelation than reading it. It makes vivid sense of that voice – that unearthly, scratchy instrument – which made her such a nonpareil figure in jazz. Biographers have often sought to explain Lady Day’s talent away, turning to the harrowing details of her 1956 autobiography Lady Sings the

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  The week in TV: Roadkill; DNA; The Same Sky; Out of Her Mind and more

  The week in TV: Roadkill; DNA; The Same Sky; Out of Her Mind and more. David Hare’s political thriller had too many implausibilities to be truly enjoyable, but a new drama from The Killing’s co-creator promised much

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  Johnny Mandel, composed the M*A*S*H theme and won an Oscar for Shadow of Your Smile – obituary

  Johnny Mandel, who has died aged 94, was a Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer and arranger best known for Suicide Is Painless, the theme for the 1970 film M*A*S*H, Robert Altman’s savage take on the idiocy of war, and for the subsequent eponymous television series, and Shadow Of Your Smile, from the 1965 film The Sandpiper, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Active in the music industry from the Second World War, Mandel began his career as a trombone player in swing bands and worked w

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  Johnny Mandel obituary

  Johnny Mandel obituary Prolific songwriter best known for the theme tune from M*A*S*H and The Shadow of Your Smile

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  Johnny Mandel death: Tributes to ‘genius’ M*A*S*H composer and arranger

  Johnny Mandel, the Oscar-winning composer of the theme song to M*A*S*H, has died at the age of 94.The American songwriter was regarded as one of the foremost composers and arrangers of the 20th Century.

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  Johnny Mandel, Oscar-winning composer behind M*A*S*H theme, dies aged 94

  Johnny Mandel, Oscar-winning composer behind M*A*S*H theme, dies aged 94. Musician, composer and arranger who also won five Grammys hailed by Michael Bublé as ‘a genius, a beast’

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  Jeremy Marre obituary

  Jeremy Marre obituaryFilm-maker known for his world music documentaries, in particular his Beats of the Heart series

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