US jazz great Randy Weston deplores ignorance about Africa
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American jazz pianist and composer Randy Weston on Monday lamented the little appreciation and knowledge people had of Africa, a continent which has influenced much of his music.
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âYOU have never beaten South Africa in this country. What makes you think you can change that this time?â The historical imperfection of the young African journalist quizzing Duncan Fletcher, the England
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The late jazz artist Miles Davis is inducted onto Hollywood's RockWalk.
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Mr. Melly was a jazz and blues singer who was also an expert on Surrealism, an author, a raconteur and a cultural critic.
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I appreciated Michael Vaughan&#39;s honesty when he said England were complacent after their seven-wicket defeat to South Africa A last week.
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Rock star Bono called Wednesday on Europe and the United States to do more to tackle the scourge of AIDS and poverty in Africa and said the continent was "bursting into flames."
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Sir Bob Geldof on Friday slammed New Zealand&#039;s foreign aid contribution as &quot;pathetic&quot; and a &quot;disgrace&quot; &amp;#151; earning an immediate rebuke from the nation&#039;s foreign minister, who said the Irish rocker had his facts wrong.
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Â· SA president congratulates French leader on speech  Â· Senegal address widely condemned by Africans
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The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
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NEW YORK  - The New Jersey edition of the seven-continent Live Earth concert series, designed to publicize the issue of climate change, was a little like Al Gore, the man who helped conceive it. Smartly organized, highly efficient and with its heart in the right place, it was also just a little bit dull.
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SAN ANTONIO -- The Utah Jazz starting backcourt of Deron Williams and Derek Fisher could miss Game 5 of the Western Conference finals against the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night.
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For the past six years, the New  York-based Jazz Foundation of America has presented its A Great  Night in Harlem benefit concert at New York&#39;s Apollo Theater.
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A new recording of Irish rock star Bob Geldof's 1984 Band Aid hit to help starving people in Africa finds the continent even more widely gripped by famine and shortages, aid workers say.
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While the world's rich and powerful talk about Africa's dead and starving, people here have heard it all before
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Wynton Marsalis, the trumpet-playing star and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, has become an entity above and around the daily jazz world.
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A former Irish schoolteacher known for  writing about soul music and working class life in Dublin was  bound to be setting himself up for criticism when he turned his  attention to jazz and gangsters in America.
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Boots Randolph, a saxophone player best known for the 1963 hit "Yakety Sax," died Tuesday. He was 80.