’GBH takeover of ’CRB alters more than letters Nov 18, 2009
GBH takeover of CRB alters more than letters - The Boston Globe. Local Search Site Search. (Boston Globe)
Obituaries in the news Oct 11, 2009
Brown, a Montclair resident, died Friday from pulmonary disease, said his son and law partner Ray Brown Jr. He had practiced law for 59 years and had continued working until March. Carter was convicted along with another man of murdering three people in a Paterson bar in 1966. (Anchorage Daily News)
Hotel colors being examined Aug 23, 2009
City officials and Dixie Walesbilt LLC project manager Ray Brown met to discuss the various possibilities of paint combinations for the structure ... Late Thursday afternoon, the Historical Society met with Gallup and project manager Ray Brown and decided upon a color that worked for all of them, Del Coronado Tequila. (Lake Wales News, FL)
The week ahead: music Jul 16, 2009
KATIE THIROUX TRIO The Berklee-sponsored Regattabar Summer Music Series kicks off with the swinging, straight-ahead trio led by up-and-coming 21-year-old Los Angeles native Thiroux, whose agile bass playing and acrobatic singing bring to mind a cross between Ray Brown and Anita O Day. 5 p.m. July 20. (Boston Globe)
Jazzmen perform in Methuen Jul 7, 2009
Tenor saxman Harry Allen and clarinetist Ken Peplowski have performed and toured with jazz royalty including Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, and George Shearing. Allen is featured on the soundtrack of The Out-of-Towners with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn (and also made a cameo appearance). (Boston Globe)
From a 21st Century Virtuoso, an Evening of Music Without Boundaries May 30, 2009
To Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock and Ray Brown, he is a world-class jazz drummer, giving their gigs and recording dates a presence few modern day percussionists can meet ... A prot;g;e of the immortal Betty Carter, Riggins honed his jazz chops performing with such artists as Herbie Hancock, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Donald Byrd, Mulgrew Miller, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Burrell and Diana Krall, all the while making a name for himself as a hip-hop producer and collaborator. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
McIlroy will change his tune about Ryder Cup May 21, 2009
Rosburg: first and foremost There would be no David Feherty, no Judy Rankin, no Ed Sneed, no Billy Ray Brown, or anyone else who has walked the course, microphone in hand, reporting on tournaments from inside the ropes, providing insight from a competitor's perspective. There would be none of that in today's televised golf broadcasts if Bob Rosburg hadn't blazed the trail and done such an incredible job in the mid-1970s, when having an on-course commentator was almost unheard of. (Boston Globe)
Results of the half marathon May 18, 2009
THE MARINE CORP HISTORIC HALF MARATHON FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2009 --- OVERALL RESULTS --- No. Oallp Name Chip ===== ===== ================================== ======= 2910 501 Chris Engel 1:46:37 5987 502 Michael Wilmoth 1:46:39 144 503 Dennis Carr 1:46:41 2428 504 Theodore Rhodes 1:46:42 3596 505 Shenley Williams 1:46:43 5870 506 Ryan Kerestes 1:46:44 1465 507 Bobby Stevens 1:46:45 213 508 Amanda Eltringham 1:46:45 3274 509 Cheston Riley 1:46:45 3371 510 Mark Leupold 1:46:47... (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
More of this story Apr 29, 2009
Ashley County Ledger. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. (Hamburg Ashley County Ledger, AR)
Escaped Fla. inmates appear for murder charge Apr 20, 2009
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office wanted to send Doni Ray Brown, 23, and Timothy Wayne Fletcher, 25, to an undisclosed facility out of the area immediately after their Saturday arrest. The two made a first appearance late Saturday before Seventh Circuit Judge Edward E. Hedstrom, Lt. Johnny Greenwood said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Manhunt Continues For Jail Escapees Apr 16, 2009
Putnam County Sheriff's Office booking photos of Doni Ray Brown and Timothy Wayne Fletcher ... The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said Doni Ray Brown, 23, and Timothy Fletcher, 25, broke out of the jail at about 4 a.m. A short time later, a red and white 1992 Ford crew-cab pickup with a blue bed was stolen from behind a fenced gate of a tire store at 330 Highway 17 north in Palatka -- about one mile from the jail. (News4Jax.com, FL)
Musical 'Mosaic' Apr 16, 2009
Her accompanists in this area will include San Diegan Geoffrey Keezer, a pianist who was a regular in the Ray Brown Quartet. "I was lucky to land Geoff," Shank said. (North County Times)
Batting Around with Scott Campbell Mar 3, 2009
His unusual athletic exploits -- well, unusual for Auckland, New Zealand, anyway -- eventually got him on the radar of some stateside college coaches, thanks to his local coach, Ray Brown. That resulted in a spot at Central Arizona Community College and, eventually, Gonzaga, where he majored in electronic journalism. (MLB.com -- Toronto Blue Jays)
RockSteady Monty And Ernest Ode To ... Mar 2, 2009
Two years later, while working in Las Vegas he was introduced to the owner of the Famous Jilly s Club in New York and soon found himself working there accompanying singers like Frank Sinatra and working with musicians like Milt Jackson of the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ray Brown, member of the famed Oscar Peterson Trio. Ernest Ranglin was born in Manchester Jamaica and is widely credited as one of the creators of Ska. (Suite101.com)
Louie Bellson, top drummer of big band era, composer; at 84 Feb 17, 2009
His more than 200 recorded appearances as leader and sideman encompass sessions with Jazz at the Philharmonic, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, and dozens of others, including Ellington's Big Four alongside guitarist Joe Pass and bassist Ray Brown. "What makes Bellson so special," former Los Angeles Times jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote in 1991, "is his overall musicianship. A gifted composer and arranger who has written everything from jazz instrumentals... (Boston Globe)
• Events calendar Feb 13, 2009
Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival FEB. 25-28 at University of Idaho, with a tribute to world rhythms of jazz and honoring bassist Ray Brown. Featured concerts: FEB. 25, "Latin Rhythms Meet Dizzy Gillespie," with Gillespie, Jon Faddis and an all-star band, vocalist Jackie Ryan, and Jose Rizo; FEB. 26, "Island Fever - Grooves From Brazil and the Caribbean," with Monty Alexander's Jazz and Roots, Kenny Barron's Canta Brazil with Trio da Paz and flutist Anne Drummond, and Anthony Wilson and... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
