Taj Mahal Reaches Beyond Blues Into Caribbean and West African Rhythms
AP News features writer Mary Campbell details Taj Mahal's evolution from country blues to Caribbean and West African sounds. The 35 year old performer reflects on diversification, naming origins, and his career arc from Rising Sons with Ry Cooder to Columbia and Warner Brothers projects.
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AP News
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Jamaica
Cavett to Interview Loren and Nureyev on PBS Debut
Dick Cavett premieres on WOUB TV20 and WOUC TV44 with Sophia Loren Monday and Rudolf Nureyev Tuesday in a 52 week public television run. The premiere guests include Chelsea Ritz Brothers, Philip Johnson, Carly Simon, and more as PBS stations fund the show with IPC and The Chubb Corporation backing.
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Deliverance
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The
Washington Post
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Simon Gray
Christopher Porterfield
Gordon Rigsby
Joan Kenner
Mahal on roots and jazz and rural hopes in life and art
Mahal discusses early musical influences and his shift from agriculture to music. He recalls mingling jazz with country blues, the impact of Roots, and how upbringing and Taurus traits shaped his confidence. He notes moving from LA to northern California, and writing music driven by inner ideas and head melodies.
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the Clown
California
Ibiza
Spain
NBC to air 16 hour miniseries on Navajo family saga
NBC plans a 16 hour miniseries The Yazzies tracing a Navajo family's century long struggle with Budd Schulberg writing the first eight hours and filming set to begin next March in Arizona Producer David Gerber commissions Dee Brown author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to write a novel for a three generation Indian family and ABC development follows.
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Arizona
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Wounded Knee
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ABC
All-Ohio 1977 exhibit at Canton Art Institute
Three Athens area artists appear in the All-Ohio 1977 show at Canton Art Institute. Maureen France wins first prize in photography for 100 dollars. Sally Gilfert and Henry Cabala have fiber and silver pieces accepted. The 133 works came from 1,075 entries.
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Canton Art Institute
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Sally Gilfert
Henry Cabala
Ohio
Paul Binai
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art
Pittsburgh
Ricardo Viera
Lehigh University
Department of Fine Arts
Lehigh Art Galleries
Chevy Chase to star opposite Goldie Hawn in Foul Play
Chevy Chase will make his film debut as the romantic lead opposite Goldie Hawn in Foul Play. Colin Higgins, writer of Silver Streak and Harold and Maude, will direct the movie from his own script.
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Goldie Hawn
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Colin Higgins
Harold and Maude
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