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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American dancer, actress, singer, and civil rights activist. Horne’s career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performerbefore moving to Hollywood….

Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide and have recordings reach gold…

Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Jazz critic John Fordham described Hill as a “uniquely gifted composer, pianist and educator” although “his status remained largely inside knowledge in the jazz world for most of his career.” Hill recorded for Blue Note Records for nearly a decade,…

Within this cante jondo several types must be distinguished. On the one hand, we find the soleá grande (four lines); the soleá del cambio (to finish off and in another tonality); the soleá por bulerías(harmony of soleá and compás de bulería); the soleá corta, the soleariya (shortened melody soleá with the first verse reduced to…