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Stan McDonald, leader of two local legendary jazz band, died on May 6 at the age of 85.

  One of the best parts about remembering a treasured memory is how sweepingly it can overtake our state of mind. One minute you’re sitting on a desk overwhelmed with papers and trinkets, watching an asynchronous virtual lecture you should’ve watched weeks ago, and then a random childhood memory temporarily halts any and all productivity. […]

Baker, flamboyantly dressed in flowing gowns and sparkling jewels, would saunter through the club. In her memoir, “Les Memoires De Josephine Baker,” which was composed in the cabaret with writer Marcel Sauvage, Baker described the club as a place of joy.  “I’ve never been so amused. I make jokes, I caress the skin of bald men, I play with the beards of bearded gentlemen. Look at these gentlemen in the day: they don’t laugh as much,” she wrote. “Everyone doing the Charleston, I keep them all entertained, the waiters, the cook, the cashier, the hunters, the goat, and the pig …...

It’s difficult for Bob Comtois to pinpoint when music started to become one of the driving forces of his life. But he’s pretty sure it began with his voice. Growing up in Northbridge, he recalls that, as a young boy, he had a strong desire to sing like the Everly Brothers. “I would sing harmony along with Everly Brothers records, and I could do either part,” he said by phone from his home in Uxbridge. “So, one evening, while my mother was at work, I asked my father for a kid brother, but he told me to shut up.” (laughs)

Florence Welch photographed on Sept. 20, 2018 at Blakes Hotel in London. When Florence Welch recently announced she was writing music and lyrics for an upcoming musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the Florence + the Machine singer told the BBC it was because "musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald's broken romanticism." But there may be another reason: On Jan. 1, all that broken romanticism first published in 1925 went into the public domain, meaning anybody can create a new version of Fitzgerald’s classic novel without permission or pa...