Author: mick
Veterans Day 2023 A World at War
Honoring my dad Mike Labriola a WWII US Army veteran stationed in his homeland of Italy. Devastated & traumatized. Praying for Peace for Ukraine, Palestine and Israel. In addition to the total of 32 ongoing conflicts in the world right now, ranging from drug wars, terrorist insurgencies, ethnic conflicts, and civil wars. When will this…
Cosmos Stable Auroral Red SAR
This broad, luminous red arc was a surprising visitor to partly cloudy evening skies over northern France. Captured extending toward the zenith in a west-to-east mosaic of images from November 5, the faint atmospheric ribbon of light is an example of a Stable Auroral Red (SAR) arc. The rare night sky phenomenon was also spotted…
Mario Pavone
Mario Pavone (November 11, 1940 – May 15, 2021) was an American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers that Pavone was not only “great bass player [but also a] big-hearted mensch.” Pavone was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. Pavone attended B. W. Tinker grammar school, Leavenworth High School, and the University of…
Ernestine Anderson
Ernestine Anderson (November 11, 1928 – March 10, 2016 Houston, TX) was an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She sang at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival (six times over…
LaVern Baker
Delores LaVern Baker (November 11, 1929 – March 10, 1997) was an American R&B singer who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful records were “Tweedle Dee” (1955), “Jim Dandy” (1956), and “I Cried a Tear” (1958). Baker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall…
Mose Allison
Mose John Allison Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter. He became notable for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz, both singing and playing piano. After moving to New York in 1956, he worked primarily in jazz settings,…
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