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A sampling of the latest Irish books on offer! Non-fiction, fiction, poetry and even a memoir from tennis legend John McEnroe promise to keep your eyes busy. ....
Tito Puente at the timbales as a young man. Tito Puente was still a teenager when he was drafted into the United States Navy in 1942. And while the man we remember as El Rey de los Timbales (“The King of the Timbales”) is a defining titan of Latin jazz, there’s a distinct Asian influence in much of his compositional and arranging style that came out of his service during World War II. Born and raised in Harlem, N.Y., Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr. was trained on piano for eight years by Victoria Hernández sister of the legendary Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández, who had been a member of the U.S. Army 369th Regiment Harlem Hellfighters Band in the first World War. Young Ernie studied jazz drumming with an African American show drummer that he could only remember as Mr. Williams, while also learning acrobatic tap and ballroom dancing with his sister Annie. ....
March 5, 2021 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Canadian Dimension Born poor on Belfast’s Shankill Road in the midst of the Great Depression was certainly no entré to a life that would cross paths with Bertrand Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Ernest (Ernie) Tate would nevertheless work closely with luminaries such as these and many others who, like him, opposed the war in Vietnam in the 1960s. A lifelong revolutionary socialist, Tate was a leading organizer of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, worked for Russell’s Peace Foundation and its International War Crimes Tribunal, and partnered with the then leftist, David Horowitz (now a prominent conservative spokesman), in taking the anti-war side at an Oxford Union debate. ....