Preston Love and the blurred line between jazz and rhythm and blues
Omaha based musician Preston Love discusses his career with Count Basie and Lucky Millinder, leading Motown's band, and later teaching in Omaha. He argues rhythm and blues blends with jazz, notes vocal emphasis in randb, names artists crossing genres, and warns commercialism threatens pure jazz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Love
Count Basie
Lucky Millinder
Motown Records
Omaha
Love
U.S
Roy Brown
Larry Darnell
Charles Brown
Percy Mayfield
Ray Charles
Louis Jordan
Joe Turner
Johnny
Otis
T-Bone Walker
George Benson
Stevie Wonder
Sonny Stitt
Salute July 4 Celebration in Lincoln Drought All Day
The Chamber of Commerce coordinates July 4 events in Lincoln with parades water activities and a fireworks display. Highlights include the Panorama Canoe Portage eight miles from Oak Lake to Holmes Lake plus model boat races Molmes Lake Field Day and a comic fairy tale theater. Various concerts and divers perform in Holmes Lake Park with traffic one way around the park after sunset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seward
Beatrice
Chamber of Commerce
Lincoln
Oak Lake
Holmes Lake
Holmes Lake Park
Mutineers Boat Club
Omaha
Molmes Lake
South Recreation Shelter
Flatland Boogie
North Recreation
Lincoln Municipal
Holmes Park
70Th St
Weather outlook for July 4 weekend with scattered thundershowers
National Weather Service says sunshine may return for July 4 activities despite possible thundershowers Saturday. Monday looks partly sunny with temperatures above normal. Weekend highs in mid 80s to about 90, lows in the mid 60s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Weather Service
Double bill cinema listings plus theatre notes
A collage of film showings across multiple venues with titles and ratings. Includes Exorcist II The Heretic and Star Wars at Douglas and Stuart theatres along with several other features, dates vary, and starts Friday or ends Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
13Th & P
Pernis
Cooper/Lincoln
54Th & O
Douglas
Mel Brooks
Sidney Sheldon
New York
Liza Minelli
al Pacino
Oriental
Embassy
Raggedy Ann
Andy
Joyo
62Nd
Havelock
12Th & P
Roy Scheider
Jaws
William Friedkin
Robert Shaw
Jacqueline Bisset
Fu Manchu
Isle of the Dead
Roxy
12Th
Boris Karloft
Yankee
The
Walt Disney Fun
Stuart
Beam
Aboard
Scotty
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Preston Love
Ohio Players
Earth Wind & Fire
Herbie Hancock
George Duke
Kool and the Gang
Bill Doggett
Tiny Bradshaw
Henry Glover
Clifford
Scotty) Scott
James Moody
Jimmy Smith
Ramsey Lewis
Hubert Laws
Cannonball Adderly
Freddie Hubbard
Gladys Knight
Marvin Gaye
Aretha Franklin
Sonny Rollins
Donald Byrd
Stanley Clarke
Judi Hutchinson
Young Frankenstein
Whiffs
Gas Light Theater
Mellerdrummer
Bertha the Beautiful Typewriter
M. Theatre, Inc
Lincoln Hilton
Phi Cle
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