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Glenn Close recently made music-related headlines for her playful performance of “Da Butt” at the Academy Awards, but the revered actor has some real music news: she’s releasing an album with Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist-composer Ted Nash on Friday.
“I learned about Go-go (music) and certainly about the Washington (D.C.) music scene from those years; I was able to do that little piece of ‘Da Butt’ because I had looked at Spike’s music video. Around the Oscars and afterward, I was doing this wonderful character for Gore Verbinski and his animated featured it’s not going to come out for a couple of years but … it was all funk (music). And now I’m back to jazz. So, yeah, mix it up! It’s really fun and interesting.”
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Actress-singer Glenn Close holds Pip as she poses with Ted Nash at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club in New York in 2019. On Friday the pair are releasing “Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution,” an 11-track spoken word jazz album that tackles heavy topics like race, politics and identity.
NEW YORK Glenn Close recently made music-related headlines for her playful performance of “Da Butt” at the Academy Awards, but the revered actor has some real music news: she’s releasing an album with Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist-composer Ted Nash on Friday.
“I learned about Go-go (music) and certainly about the Washington (D.C.) music scene from those years; I was able to do that little piece of ‘Da Butt’ because I had looked at Spike’s music video. Around the Oscars and afterward, I was doing this wonderful character for Gore Verbinski and his animated featured it’s not going to come out for a cou
Getting up Close with Glenn and Ted Nash, new duo in jazz
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer
May 5, 2021
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1of15Glenn Close, nominated for an Oscar for best actress for her role in The Wife, poses at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 4, 2019, left, and musician Ted Nash poses for a portrait in New York on May 4, 2021. Close is releasing an album with the Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist-composer on Friday. “Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution,” is an 11-track spoken word jazz album that tackles heavy topics like race, politics and identity.APShow MoreShow Less
Mesfin Fekadu
Glenn Close, nominated for an Oscar for best actress for her role in The Wife, poses at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 4, 2019, left, and musician Ted Nash poses for a portrait in New York on May 4, 2021. Close is releasing an album with the Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist-composer on Friday. âTransformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution,â is an 11-track spoken word jazz album that tackles heavy topics like race, politics and identity. (AP Photo) May 05, 2021 - 6:28 AM
NEW YORK - Glenn Close recently made music-related headlines for her playful performance of âDa Buttâ at the Academy Awards, but the revered actor has some real music news: sheâs releasing an album with Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist-composer Ted Nash on Friday.
May 05, 2021 - 8:04 PM
US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines
WASHINGTON (AP) â The Biden administration on Wednesday joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic, a shift that puts the U.S. alongside many in the developing world who want rich countries to do more to get doses to the needy.
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the government s position, amid World Trade Organization talks about a possible temporary waiver of its protections that would allow more manufacturers to produce the life-saving vaccines.
âThe Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines, Tai said in a statement.