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Gay porn star tried to kill ex-girlfriend

A former gay porn star was convicted by a California jury this week of attempted murder for hitting his ex-girlfriend over the head with a toilet-lid tank.

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Jazz musician Griffin dead at age 80

Johnny Griffin, one of the world's best jazz tenor saxophonists, has died in the French village of Availles-Limouzine at the age of 80, his agent says.

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Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin was born this day in 1928 in Chicago. Griffin now lives in France, returning to the United States once or twice a year to tour the jazz club circuit.

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Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons was born in Chicago this day in 1925, son of boogie-woogie piano pioneer Albert Ammons.

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Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Singer Nellie Lutcher was born this day in 1915 in Lake Charles, La.

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Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Drummer Art Blakey was born this day in 1919 in Pittsburgh. He became a one-man jazz university during his long and productive career. Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, became a training ground for many future bandleaders, including Jackie McLean, Johnn

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Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Strike up the band. Composer George Gershwin was born this day in 1898 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He established the standard for popular song in America -- songs that have long been favorite covers for jazz players.

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Jazz Condition -- UPI Arts & Entertainment

The fans at Saratoga racetrack were celebrating the closing weekend of the season at horseracing's upstate New York mecca when the information started filtering around via word of mouth that Lionel Hampton had passed away. The racetrack might seem an odd

John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.

Griffin studied music at DuSable High School under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax. While still at high school at age 15, Griffin was playing with T-Bone Walker in a band led by Walker's brother.

Alto sax was still his instrument of choice when he joined Lionel Hampton's big band three days after his high school graduation, but Hampton encouraged him to take up the tenor, playing alongside Arnett Cobb. He first appeared on a Los Angeles recording with Hampton's band in 1945 at the age of 17.

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