Can’t Miss Alabama reflects on Martin Luther King Jr. through service opportunities, celebrations
By Shirley Jackson
Honoring MLK’s extraordinary life and service.
Hands On Birmingham
For the past 19 years the residents of Birmingham and surrounding areas have come out by the thousands to give back to their community on MLK Jr. Day of Service. Hands On Birmingham, now United Way Hands On, has refurbished schools, built homes for the needy, fed the homeless, cleaned up neighborhoods, socialized with seniors and more. This year’s event includes a variety of community projects beginning Saturday, Jan. 16 through Monday, Jan. 18. Stay connected at unitedwayhandson.org.
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Alan Pasqua, the go-to keyboard wiz for jazz and rock legends, on Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana and Peter Erskine [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-PASQUA:SD]
When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand.
Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in Los Angeles.
“I did not know the text for Bob’s speech, but I knew what it was for and was asked to record about 30 minutes of music, piano musings, nothing too specific. Luckily, I was free that day!” Pasqua recalled. More recently, he performed on “Murder Most Foul,” the nearly 17-minute epic from “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” Dylan’s masterful 2020 album.
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When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand.
Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in Los Angeles.
“I did not know the text for Bob’s speech, but I knew what it was for and was asked to record about 30 minutes of music, piano musings, nothing too specific. Luckily, I was free that day!” Pasqua recalled. More recently, he performed on “Murder Most Foul,” the nearly 17-minute epic from “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” Dylan’s masterful 2020 album.
Nancy Bush Ellis, Sister and Aunt of Presidents, Dies at 94
Unlike most of her family, she was a liberal Democrat for a time, supporting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and environmental causes.
Nancy Bush Ellis with her brother President George Bush in 1990. Though she was a liberal Democrat, she campaigned for him enthusiastically.Credit.Marcy Nighswander/Associated Press
Published Jan. 10, 2021Updated Jan. 11, 2021
Nancy Bush Ellis, the sister of one president and aunt of another, who for a time devoted herself to Democratic causes despite her family dynasty’s Republican lineage, died on Sunday at an assisted living facility in Concord, Mass. She was 94.