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JazzWax grapevine. I hear that Johnny Mandel is currently in the studio arranging and conducting Diana Krall's new album. The release date for the upcoming CD from Verve Records is yet unknown... I hear that Mosaic Records is planning a Louis Armstrong box next year covering Pops' 1930s-1940s period for the Decca label...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - New Chapter Press has announced the publication of its latest book - On This Day In Tennis History -a calendar-like compilation of historical and unique anniversaries, events and happenings from the world of tennis through the years - written by Randy Walker, the sports marketing and media specialist, tennis historian and former U.S.

I'm a little late with this, I know, but two important pro-fatherhood legislators won Tuesday--former California Assemblyman Rod Wright (pictured) and Texas legislator Allen Vaught. I recently became acquainted with Vaught via Texas activist Dave Cary, who wrote: Vaught has been a tireless supporter of Parental Rights and the Constitution.

The NBA season kicked off this week and it’s that time to pick who wins what, where and how. The two bad boys of bang above figure prominently in my post season picks. Who ya got? Eastern Conference Atlantic Division Boston Celtics              Jesus + Black Pharaoh = The Truth Toronto

It was 35 years ago Saturday that perhaps the most famous single tennis match in the history of the sport was held in Houston, Texas when Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the famed “Battle of the Sexes.” The following are events that happened this week in tennis history as documented in my soon-to-be-released book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, www.tennistomes.com).

It was 35 years ago Saturday that perhaps the most famous single tennis match in the history of the sport was held in Houston, Texas when Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the famed “Battle of the Sexes.” The following are events that happened this week in tennis history as documented in my soon-to-be-released book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, www.tennistomes.com).

STARS Marin Cilic beat Mardy Fish 6-4 4-6 6-2 to win the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, Connecticut. Caroline Wozniacki beat Anna Chakvetadze 3-6 6-4 6-1 to win the women’s singles at the Pilot Pen in New Haven Lucie Safarova won the Forest Hills Classic in New York City by beating Peng Shuai 6-4 6-2 SAYINGS “There is always a little buzz, even in the middle of the points.

One of my favorite Art Blakey albums is Africaine. Recorded in November 1959, the album marked the start of a new chapter in the evolution of the Jazz Messengers. All six tracks on the album are uptempo hard-bop swingers (there are no Tin Pan Alley ballads here), and the creative ideas throughout are superb.

It’s fun to picture a burly trucker barreling down Route 66 listening to a Coleman Hawkins 8-Track at full blast, but the scarcity of jazz in this format is pretty good proof that it didn’t happen very often. The 8-Track was mostly a medium for country music, and many 8-Tracks were sold at truck stops - hence, not a lot of jazz.

Horace Silver was born in Connecticut to a Cape Verde father and an Irish-African mother. This talented jazz pianist and composer is a pioneer in the hard bop ( a mix of rhythm and blues, gospel, and jazz) style of music and has played with jazz greats like Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Lou Donaldson, and Clifford Brown.