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Beatrice may refer to:

People[link]

• Beatrice (given name)
• Beatrix (fl. 4th century), one of Roman martyrs Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
• Beatrice d'Este (1192–1226), Italian political-family member
• Beatrice of Savoy (1198–1266), Italian political-family member
• Beatrix da Silva (1424–1492), Portuguese nun and catholic saint
• Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), Flemish religious leader
• Beatrice of Portugal (disambiguation), Princesses of Portugal
• Beatrice Portinari (1266–1290), Italian acquaintance of Dante
• Beatritz de Dia (fl. late 12th century), Provençal poet and musician, a so-called troubadour; aristocratic political-family member. Often referred to as the Countess de Dia.
• Beatrice of Ornacieux (c. 1240– c. 1308), French religious leader
• Beatrice of Naples (fl. 1476-1500), queen of Hungary, aka Beatrix of Aragon, Italian born
• Beatrice de Coligny (born 1572), Countess d'Entremont
• Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857–1944)
• Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884–1966)
• Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 1938), ruler
• Béatrice Poulot (fl. c. 2000), French singer from Réunion
• Princess Beatrice of York (born 1988)
• Beatrice Shilling, aeronautical engineer and motorcyclist

Fictional characters[link]

• Beatrice, a soul in Dante's Divine Comedy who guides Dante out of Purgatory and through Heaven (based on Beatrice Portinari)
• In plays:
  • Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
  • Beatrice Carbone in A View from the Bridge
• Beatrice Baudelaire
• Beatrice in comic Gunslinger Girl
• Beatrice, witch in the doujin game Umineko no Naku Koro ni
• Beatrice Rappaccini, title character of short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
• Beatrice (Tris) Prior, the female protagonist and narrator of the YA series Divergent written by Veronica Roth.
• Beatrice: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Other uses[link]

• Places:
  • United States:
    • Beatrice, Alabama
    • Beatrice, California (disambiguation), multiple places with the name
    • Beatrice, Nebraska
  • Beatrice, Zimbabwe
• Companies:
  • Beatrice Foods
  • Beatrice International Models, agency based in Italy
• Beatrice (band)
• Beatrice (psychedelic), drug
• "Beatrice", song from Sam Rivers's time with Blue Note, on the album "Fuchsia Swing Song" released in 1964.
• MSC Beatrice
• Beatrice Wind Farm in the Scottish sector of the North Sea

See also[link]

• "Beatrijs", Dutch poem
• Saint Beatrice (disambiguation)
• Princess Beatrice (disambiguation)
• Beatrix

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Kalle Moraeus in 2010

Kalle Moraeus (born 15 July 1963 in Orsa as Kalle Anders Moraeus) is a Swedish musician.^[1]

He is a member of the folk group Orsa Spelmän and Benny Anderssons Orkester, founded by former ABBA member Benny Andersson. Amongst numerous recordings with these bands, he has also released a couple of solo albums, most recently album and single Underbart, both being successful in the Swedish charts in 2010.

References[link]

Sam Rivers
Rivers and Joe Daley, 1976
Background information
Birth name	Samuel Carthorne Rivers
Born	(1923-09-25)September 25, 1923 Enid, Oklahoma, U.S.[1][2]
Died	December 26, 2011(2011-12-26) (aged 88) Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Avant-garde jazz Free jazz
Occupations	Musician Bandleader Composer
Instruments	Saxophone Clarinet Flute Harmonica Piano
Years active	1950s–2011
Labels	Blue Note, RCA, Impulse, Stunt
Associated acts	Quincy Jones Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie Bobby Hutcherson Andrew Hill Jimmy Lyons Dave Holland
Website	Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano.

Rivers was born in Enid, Oklahoma. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command of music theory, orchestration and composition, Rivers was an influential and prominent artist in jazz music.^[2]

Early life[link]

Rivers's father was a gospel musician who had sung with the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Silverstone Quartet, exposing Rivers to music from an early age. Rivers moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1947, where he studied at the Boston Conservatory with Alan Hovhaness.^[2]

He performed with Quincy Jones, Herb Pomeroy, Tadd Dameron and others.

Blue Note era[link]

In 1959 Rivers began performing with 13-year-old drummer Tony Williams, who later went on to have an impressive career. Rivers was briefly a member of the Miles Davis's quintet in 1964, partly at Williams's recommendation. This quintet recorded a single album, Miles in Tokyo. However, Rivers' playing style was too free to be compatible with Davis's music at this point, and he was soon replaced by Wayne Shorter. Rivers was signed by Blue Note Records, for whom he recorded four albums as leader and made several sideman appearances. Among noted sidemen on his own Blue Note albums were Jaki Byard, who appears on Fuchsia Swing Song, Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard. He appeared on Blue Note recordings by Tony Williams, Andrew Hill and Larry Young.

Rivers's music is rooted in bebop, but he is an adventurous player, adept at free jazz. The first of his Blue Note albums, Fuchsia Swing Song, is widely regarded as a masterpiece of an approach sometimes called "inside-outside". With this approach the performer frequently obliterates the explicit harmonic framework ("going outside") but retains a hidden link so as to be able to return to it in a seamless fashion. Rivers brought the conceptual tools of bebop harmony to a new level in this process, united at all times with the ability to "tell a story" which Lester Young had laid down as a benchmark for the jazz improviser.

His powers as a composer were also in evidence in this period: the ballad "Beatrice" from Fuchsia Swing Song has become an important standard, particularly for tenor saxophonists. For instance, it is the first cut on Joe Henderson's 1985 The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2, and Stan Getz recorded it during the 1989 sessions eventually issued as Bossas & Ballads – The Lost Sessions.

Loft era[link]

During the 1970s, Rivers and his wife, Bea, ran a noted jazz loft called "Studio Rivbea" in New York City's NoHo district. It was located on Bond Street in Lower Manhattan and was originally opened as a public performance space as part of the first New York Musicians Festival in 1970.^[3] Critic John Litweiler has written that "In New York Loft Jazz meant Free Jazz in the Seventies" and Studio Rivbea was "the most famous of the lofts". ^[4] The loft was important in the development of jazz because it was an example of artists creating their own performance spaces and taking responsibility for presenting music to the public. This allowed for music to be free of extra-musical concerns that would be present in a nightclub or concert hall situation. A series of recordings made at the loft were issued under the title Wildflowers on the Douglas label.

During this era Rivers continued to record for a variety of labels, including several albums for Impulse!: Streams, recorded live at Montreux, Hues (both records contain different trio performances later collated on CD as Trio Live), the quartet album Sizzle and his first big-band disc, Crystals; perhaps his best-known work from this period though is his appearance at 49 years old on Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, in the company of Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul.

Later career[link]

He performed regularly with his Orchestra and Trio (with Doug Matthews and Rion Smith). In 1998 he recorded two big-band albums for RCA Victor with the RivBea All-Star Orchestra, Culmination and Inspiration (the title-track is an elaborate reworking of Dizzy Gillespie's "Tanga": Rivers was in Gillespie's band near the end of the trumpeter's life). Other recent albums of note include Portrait, a solo recording for FMP, and Vista, a trio with drummers Adam Rudolph and Harris Eisenstadt for Meta. During the late 1990s he appeared on several albums on Postcards Records.

In 2006, he released Aurora, a third CD featuring compositions for his Rivbea Orchestra and the first CD featuring members of his working orchestra in Orlando.

Rivers died from pneumonia on December 26, 2011 at the age of 88 in Orlando, Florida.^[5][6]

Discography[link]

Jemeel Moondoc and Rashid Bakr at Studio Rivbea July, 1976

Lake Eola, Orlando Fl in 2008

2007

As leader[link]

• 1964: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)
• 1965: Contours (Blue Note)
• 1966: A New Conception (Blue Note)
• 1967: Dimensions & Extensions (Blue Note)
• 1973: Streams (Impulse!)
• 1973: Hues (Impulse!)
• 1974: Crystals (Impulse!)
• 1976: Sizzle (Impulse!)
• 1976: Dave Holland / Sam Rivers (Improvising Artists)
• 1976: Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol. 2 (Improvising Artists)
• 1976: The Tuba Trio Vols 1-3 (Circle)
• 1976: Jazz Of The 70's (Circle)
• 1976: The Quest (Red / Pausa)
• 1977: Paragon (Fluid)
• 1978: Waves (Tomato)
• 1980: Contrasts (ECM)
• 1981: Crosscurrent (Blue Marge)
• 1982: Colours (Black Saint)
• 1995: Portrait (FMP)
• 1997: Configuration" (Nato)
• 1998: Eight Day Journal (Nato)
• 1999: Winter Garden (Nato)
• 1999: Inspiration (RCA Victor)
• 2004: Celebration
• 2007: Firestorm
• 2011: Trilogy (Mosaic)

As sideman[link]

With Barry Altschul

• You Can't Name Your Own Tune (Muse, 1977)

With Steven Bernstein

• Diaspora Blues (Tzadik, 2002)

With Miles Davis

• Miles in Tokyo (Columbia, 1964)

With Brian Groder

• Torque (2007)

With Andrew Hill

• Change (Blue Note, 1966)

With the Dave Holland Quartet

• Conference of the Birds, (ECM, 1973)

With Bobby Hutcherson

• Dialogue (Blue Note, 1965)

With Jason Moran

• Black Stars (Blue Note, 2001)

With Music Revelation Ensemble

• In the Name of... (DIW, 1993)

With Don Pullen

• Capricorn Rising (Black Saint, 1975)

with Cecil Taylor

• The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (Prestige, 1969)

With Alexander von Schlippenbach

• Tangens (FMP, 1998)

With Tony Williams

• Life Time (Blue Note, 1964)
• Spring (Blue Note, 1965)

With Larry Young

• Into Somethin' (Blue Note, 1964)

With NOJO

• City Of Neighbourhoods (2004)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sam Rivers Web Site
• The Sam Rivers Sessionography and Gigography
• Jazz at Lincoln Center - Chat With Sam Rivers
• FMP Releases
• NPR profile, September 20, 2009
• Interview at allaboutjazz.com

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Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. Hers remains the shortest acting performance in a film to win an Oscar. In her winning role in the 1976 film Network, she was on screen for five minutes and forty seconds, the shortest time ever for the winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also received an Emmy nomination for her role in The Dain Curse. Straight can also be recognized as Dr. Lesh in Poltergeist.

Biography[link]

Born in Old Westbury, New York, Straight was the daughter of investment banker Willard Dickerman Straight and Dorothy Payne Whitney. She was four years old when her father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the US Army during World War I.

Following her mother's remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925, the family moved to England. It was there that Straight was educated and began acting in amateur theater productions.

Returning to the United States, she made her Broadway debut in 1939 in the play The Possessed. Most of her theatre work was in the classics, including Twelfth Night (1941), Macbeth, and The Crucible (1953), for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Straight was active in the early days of television, appearing in anthology series such as Armstrong Circle Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, The United States Steel Hour, Playhouse 90, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents and dramatic series like Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, The Defenders, Route 66, Mission: Impossible, and St. Elsewhere.

Straight worked infrequently in film, and is remembered best for her role as a devastated wife confronting husband William Holden's infidelity in Network (1976). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance which, at five minutes and forty seconds, remains the shortest ever to win an Oscar.^[1]

Further film and television performances include the role of the mother of Lynda Carter's title character in the Wonder Woman series, and Marion Hillyard, the icy, controlling mother of Stephen Collins in The Promise. She also played the role of the paranormal investigator Dr. Martha Lesh in the film Poltergeist (1982), the most widely seen role of her film career.

Personal life[link]

Straight was married twice, first to Frenchman Louis Dolivet, a left-wing activist who became editor of United Nations World magazine and later a film producer. They divorced in 1949, and she immediately married film and Broadway actor/producer Peter Cookson, with whom she had two sons.

Death[link]

Straight reportedly suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her last years. She died from pneumonia in Los Angeles at age 86.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Beatrice Straight at Find a Grave
• Beatrice Straight at the Internet Broadway Database
• Beatrice Straight at the Internet Movie Database

Robert Glasper
Photo by Ed Newman
Background information
Born	(1978-04-05) April 5, 1978 (age 34)
Origin	Houston, Texas, United States
Genres	Jazz, hip hop, soul
Occupations	Musician, Producer
Instruments	Piano
Years active	2003 - present
Labels	Blue Note Records
Associated acts	Bilal, Mos Def, Q-Tip, RCDC J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Common Talib Kweli, Maxwell Meshell Ndegeocello Lalah Hathaway Musiq Soulchild Stokley Williams Hindi Zahra

Robert Glasper (born April 5, 1978 in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz pianist and record producer.

Career[link]

Glasper’s earliest musical influence was his mother, Kim Yvette Glasper, who sang jazz and blues professionally. She would bring him with her to club dates rather than leave her son with babysitters. She also performed in church where the young Glasper began playing piano, and performed during services at three separate churches: Baptist, Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist. Glasper has said that he first developed his sound in church, where he learned his own way to hear harmony, and was inspired to mix church and gospel harmonies with jazz harmonies.

Glasper attended Elkins High School in Houston, TX and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and went on to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. At the New School, Glasper met neo-soul singer Bilal Oliver. They began performing and recording together, which led to associations with a variety of hip-hop and R&B artists parallel to Glasper’s emerging jazz career. He has worked with Bilal and Mos Def as musical director, Q-Tip (The Renaissance), Kanye West (Late Registration), Meshell Ndegeocello (The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams), J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Common, Slum Village and Maxwell, with whom he toured extensively on 2009’s BLACKsummers'night tour.

Glasper’s first album, Mood, was released by Fresh Sound New Talent in 2004, after the pianist’s stints playing in bands with guitarists Russell Malone and Mark Whitfield, bassist Christian McBride, and trumpeters Terence Blanchard (Bounce) and Roy Hargrove. The album features six original compositions by Glasper alongside versions of “Blue Skies,” “Alone Together,” and Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage,” featuring guest vocalist Bilal. Glasper has said that his arrangement of the Hancock tune was inspired by the Radiohead song “Everything in Its Right Place.”

Blue Note Records released Canvas, Glasper’s major-label debut, in 2005. The album features nine original songs and a version of Hancock’s “Riot.” Glasper plays the Fender Rhodes on three tracks, and Bilal sings on two. In My Element, released in 2006, includes songs written in honor of Glasper’s mother (“Tribute”) and hip-hop producer J Dilla (“J Dillalude”). The pianist also revisits Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage,” which segues into a version of “Everything in Its Right Place,” and quotes Duke Ellington’s “Fleurette Africaine.”

Glasper's 2009 album Double-Booked is divided between songs performed by Glasper in an acoustic piano trio and funk-influenced tracks played on electric instruments, such as the Fender Rhodes electric piano and the vocoder (used on a version of Herbie Hancock’s “Butterfly”). The album features voice mail recordings from Blanchard and Roots drummer Questlove, and guest vocals and spoken word appearances by Bilal and Mos Def. Bilal received a 2010 Grammy Award nomination for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the track “All Matter.”

Glasper has performed at jazz festivals throughout the world, and his trio performed at the 2007 Bonnaroo Music Festival as part of Blue Note's "Somethin' Else" jazz tent. In addition to his working trio (Chris Dave, drums; Vicente Archer, bass), he also leads the Robert Glasper Experiment (Derrick Hodge, Chris Dave, and Casey Benjamin), in which he explores fusions of jazz and hip hop.

In 2012, Glasper released "Black Radio", which featured performances by many neo-soul and hip hop artists including Lupe Fiasco. This synthesis of hip hop and jazz is supposedly Glasper's attempt to correct what he sees as a lack of new energy in the jazz genre. In the April, 2012 issue of Downbeat, Glasper stated that "I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap." Glasper is currently represented by Addeo Music International (AMI).

Musical Style[link]

Glasper's music can be described as "experiments with space, rhythm and chord textures", creating a vast array of sound. He has said that he tries to make the music flow in a way more like a hip-hop beat, trying to always leave the music open for someone to rap over.

Discography[link]

• Mood (2003)
• Canvas (2005)
• In My Element (2007)
• Double-Booked (2009)
• Black Radio (2012)^[1] #15 US 200, #4 US R&B, #1 US Jazz, #81 UK, #59 CAN

References[link]

• Robert Glasper: The pianist whose jazz is filled with soul, Telegraph
• Robert Glasper Video Interview, The Jazz Line
• In Conversaton with Robert Glasper, Jazz.com
• Charlie Parker Jazz Festival: Cool Jazz in Harlem, New York The Sun
• Review of Canvas, The Guardian
• Robert Glasper, Jazz Times
• In My Element by Robert Glasper, New York Magazine
• Review of Robert Glasper's Canvas, allaboutjazzcom

External links[link]

• Official home page
• Artist's page at Blue Note Records
• Robert Glasper Facebook fan page
• Robert Glasper performs at NPR Music
• Obnoxious Listeners: Robert Glasper Trio
• Progressing Under the Radar with Precision and Daring, New York Times