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...absolutely believe Dov has the capability of playing in the NHL,” said Chico Adrahtas, head coach of the Danville (Ill.) Wings, Grumet-Morris’ former junior-league team. “You’re familiar with the old saying, ‘Many are called, few are chosen.’ Well, Dov will be chosen...
...protuberances: the meditation comparing English bosoms to Italian abbondanzas, the tribute to "Anita Ekberg's gravity-defying / conically capacious dairying facilities." But he is as generous to other, minor bards as he is to himself, including long excerpts of movie critiques from the likes of the Kankakee Clarion, the Chico News and Review...
...past six weeks. Music Club has released John Lee Hooker...Is Hip: His Greatest Hits by the legendary Mississippi blues guitarist. Country guitar god Chet Atkins' new release, A Master and His Music, is on the BMG/RCA label. No postmortem releases by trumpeter and Latin-jazz innovator Chico O'Farrill have been announced, but his greatest stuff is on Cuban Blues: Chico O'Farrill Sessions, a 1996 two-disc release from Universal/Verve...
...DIED. CHICO O'FARRILL, 79, composer, arranger and one of the creators of Afro-Cuban jazz; in New York City. Arturo O'Farrill, nicknamed Chico by Benny Goodman, spent most of his decades-long career in the background, writing and arranging music for the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie, and even other arrangers, such as Quincy Jones. In 1950 bandleader Machito recorded O'Farrill's first major composition, The Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite. In the late 1990s O'Farrill headlined his 18-piece big band, making weekly appearances at the Birdland club in New York City...