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Mike Lipskin

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Mike Lipskin is a stride jazz pianist of the pre-bop jazz style creating his own special mode within the idiom, piano instructor, record producer and author. Born 1945, he has striven to keep alive the form of jazz piano known as Harlem Stride Piano, performing varied repertoire and originals, has concertized throughout USA and Europe, and now with Dinah Lee, fine trad jazz singer. He played piano and organ on Papa John Creach's self-titled album, produced Ryo Kawasaki's Juice album, and produced Gil Evans' Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix . His 1958 photographs and commentary contributed to the 1995 documentary film A Great Day in Harlem . [1] Lipskin performed at the Fats Waller centennial concert at the 22nd San Francisco Jazz Festival. [2] "Mike Lipskin plays stride with great accuracy - Eubie Blake. "Mike Lipskin performed Carolina Shout in a tribute to his teacher Willie the Lion Smith with outstanding improvisation" Peter Watrous...

Butch Thompson

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Not to be confused with Butch Thompson (baseball). Butch Thompson Thompson at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2007 Background information Birth name Richard Enos Thompson Born ( 1943-11-28 ) November 28, 1943 (age 74) Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, U.S. Genres Jazz, ragtime, stride Occupation(s) Musician Instruments Piano, clarinet Years active Jazzology, Stomp Off Associated acts Hall Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band, New Jazz Wizards Website www.butchthompson.com Butch Thompson (born November 28, 1943 in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota) is an American jazz pianist and clarinetist best known for his ragtime and stride performances. Music career Thompson was born in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, began playing piano at the early age of three, and began taking lessons at age six. At Stillwater Area High School, he played clarinet in the band. In 1962 he joined the Hall Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band in Minneapolis and remained with the band for twenty years. From 1974–198...

Daylight saving in Debian 9

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP 0 I would like to know how to enable Daylight saving support for Debian 9 with LXDE. My timezone is set to Europe/Rome. However my clock is one hour ahead and - considering Daylight saving - it shouldn't. Running date from the terminal I get: Mon 25 Feb 11:30:40 CET 2019 With date --utc : Mon 25 Feb 10:30:40 UTC 2019 Correct UTC time from https://time.is/it/UTC should be: Mon 25 Feb 09:30:40 UTC 2019 debian date lxde ntp timezone share | improve this question asked Feb 25 at 9:34 matteobin matteobin 3 4 Dual booting with Windows, not using NTP or NTP blocked in firewall? – Rui F Ribeiro Feb 25 at 9:56 @RuiFRibeiro Yes, I'm dual booting with Windows. I just noticed that ntpdate is not working and it gives me this error ntpdate[2883]: no servers can be used, exiting . Moreover the Bios was set to the result of date --utc . I changed it to correct UTC. Now I've got correct...

George Winston

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For other people named George Winston, see George Winston (disambiguation). George Winston Born 1949 (age 69–70) Origin Michigan Genres Stride, New Orleans R&B, folk, new age Occupation(s) Musician Instruments Piano, acoustic guitar, harmonica Years active 1972–present Labels Dancing Cat, RCA, Sony Classical, Windham Hill, Takoma Website georgewinston.com George Winston (born 1949) is an American pianist who was born in Michigan and grew up mainly in Montana (Miles City and Billings), [1] as well as Mississippi and Florida. [2] He is best known for his solo piano recordings; several of his albums from the early 1980s have sold millions of copies each. He plays in three styles: the melodic approach he developed that he calls "rural folk piano"; stride piano, primarily inspired by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Teddy Wilson; and his primary interest, New Orleans R&B piano, influenced by James Booker, Professor Longhair, and Henry Butler. [3] Contents 1 Early lif...