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GRAMMY-WINNING JAZZ SINGER
NANCY WILSON
HAS DIED AT AGE 81 Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor
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ancy Wilson, the Grammy-winning “song stylist” and torch singer whose polished pop-jazz vocals made her a platinum artist and top concert performer, has died. Wilson, who retired from touring in 2011, died after a long illness at her after a long illness at her home in Pioneertown, a California desert community near Joshua Tree National Park, her manager and publicist Devra Hall Levy announced late Thursday night. She was 81. Influenced by Dinah Washington, Nat “King” Cole and other stars, Wilson covered everything from jazz standards to “Little Green Apples” and in the 1960s alone released eight albums that reached the top 20 on Billboard’s pop charts. Sometimes elegant and understated, or quick and conversational and a little naughty, she was best 2 known for such songs as
ABC News recently reported that some mom and pop shops and restaurant owners in Inglewood fear for their future as rents increase near the new NFL stadium. The owner of Jamz Creamery said he must raise his prices in January because his landlord wants an extra helping of rent money. “Our monthly price to lease the place up went up close to double,” owner James Allen said. At M&M Soul Food, owner Beverly Brinson has a different landlord but a similar dilemma. She said her landlord raised her rent from $6,200 to $14,000 per
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SEN. KAMALA HARRIS,
2020 Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?
Sen. Kamala Harris’ chief of staff is departing her Senate office to take on a senior adviser role at her political action committee, indicating that she may be preparing to launch a 2020 bid for president. Harris on Tuesday morning announced that Nathan Barankin, a longtime aide and veteran of California politics, would leave his job in the Senate but is not leaving Harris’ orbit altogether, however. It has been reported that he will be joining her political operation, advising her Fearless for the People PAC. Harris raised more than $2 million for the PAC during the 2018 election, donating more than $400,000 to federal can-
didates. That made her one of the most generous campaign donors in the Senate, along with two other likely 2020 Democratic candidates, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Cory Booker of New Jersey. Harris is considered a top-tier candidate in what is likely to be a crowded Democratic primary field in 2020. She recently told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” cohost Mika Brzezinski that she will make a decision about running for president “over the holiday ... with my family.” California’s new, early primary date could give her a boost because of her statewide election experience, local relationships and the number of delegates at play.
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her breakthrough “Guess Who I Saw Today” and the 1964 hit “(You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am,” which drew upon Broadway, pop and jazz. She resisted being identified with a single category, especially jazz, and referred to herself as a “song stylist.” “The music that I sing today was the pop music of the 1960s,” she told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2010. “I just never considered myself a jazz singer. I do not do runs and — you know. I take a lyric and make it mine. I consider myself an interpreter of the lyric.” Wilson’s dozens of albums included a celebrated collaboration with Cannonball Adderley, “Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley,” a small group setting which understandably could be called jazz; “Broadway — My Way”; “Lush Life”; and “The Nancy Wilson Show!” a bestselling concert recording. “How Glad I Am” brought her a Grammy in 1965 for best R&B performance, and she later won Grammys for best jazz vocal album in 2005 for the intimate “R.S.V.P (Rare Songs, Very Personal)” and in 2007 for “Turned to Blue,” a showcase for the relaxed, confident swing she mastered later in life. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded her a “Jazz Masters Fellowship” in 2004 for lifetime achievement. Wilson also had a busy career on television, film and radio, her credits including “Hawaii Five-O,” ‘’Police Story,” the Robert Townshend spoof “Meteor Man” and years hosting NPR’s “Jazz Profiles” series. Active in the civil rights movement, including the Selma march of 1965, she received an NAACP Image Award in 1998. Wilson was married twice — to drummer Kenny Dennis, whom she divorced in 1970; and to Wiley Burton, who died in 2008. She had three children. Born in Chillcote, Ohio, the eldest of six children of an
iron foundry worker and a maid, Wilson sang in church as a girl and by age 4 had decided on her profession. She was in high school when she won a talent contest sponsored by a local TV station and was given her own program. After briefly attending Central State College, she toured Ohio with the Rusty Bryant’s Carolyn Club Big Band and met such jazz artists as Adderley, who encouraged her to move to New York. She soon had a regular gig at The Blue Morocco, and got in touch with Adderley’s manager, John Levy. “He set up a session to record a demo,” Wilson later observed during an interview for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. “Ray Bryant and I went in and recorded ‘Guess Who I Saw Today,’ ‘Sometimes I’m Happy,’ and two other songs. We sent them to Capitol and within five days the phone rang. Within six weeks I had all the things I wanted.” Her first album, “Like in Love!” came out in 1959, and she had her greatest commercial success over the following decade despite contending at times with the latest sounds. Gamely, she covered Beatles songs (“And I Love Her” became “And I Love Him”), Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” and “Son of a Preacher Man,” on which she strained to mimic Aretha Franklin’s fiery gospel style. She was so outside the contemporary music scene an interviewer once stumped her by asking about Cream, the million-selling rock trio featuring Eric Clapton. “It took me years to know what that question was about. Remember, I was constantly working or I was
traveling to perform. The ‘60s for me were about work,” she told JazzWax in 2010. In the 1970s and after, she continued to record regularly and perform worldwide, at home in nightclubs, concert halls and open-air settings, singing at jazz festivals from Newport to Tokyo. She officially stopped touring with a show at Ohio University in September 2011, but had been thinking of stepping back for years. When she turned 70, in 2007, she was guest of honor at a Carnegie Hall gala. The show ended with Wilson performing such favorites as “Never, Never Will I Marry,” ‘’I Can’t Make You Love Me” and the Gershwin classic “How Long Has This Been Going On?” “After 55 years of doing what I do professionally, I have a right to ask how long? I’m trying to retire, people,” she said with a laugh before leaving the stage to a standing ovation. In accordance with Wilson’s wishes, there will be no funeral service, a family statement said. A celebration of her life will be held most likely in February, the month of her birth. She is survived by her son, Kacy Dennis; daughters Samantha Burton and Cheryl Burton; sisters Karen Davis
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Publisher’s Message As the City of Inglewood has wrapped-up business operations for 2018 and will resume in 2019, there is still a considerable amount of news on the national scene that is worth noting. The walls seem to be caving in on Trump and his administration as 17 investigations engulf his orbit. Investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller: Russian government’s election attack (the Internet Research Agency and GRU indictments), WikiLeaks, Middle Eastern influence: Potentially the biggest unseen aspect of Mueller’s investigation is his year-long pursuit of Middle Eastern influence targeting the Trump campaign. Paul Manafort’s activity, Trump Tower Moscow project, Other campaign and transition contacts with Russia Obstruction of justic Investigations by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York: Campaign conspiracy and Trump Organization finances, Inauguration funding Trump super PAC funding, Foreign lobbying Investigations by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia: Maria Butina, Russian operative, and the NRA Investigations by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia: Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, the alleged chief accountant of the Internet Research Agency who was indicted separately earlier this fall, charged with activity that went above and beyond the 2016 campaign. Turkish influence: Michael Flynn’s plea agreement includes some details of the case, and he is cooperating with investi-
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gators. Investigations by New York City, New York State and other state attorneys general: Tax case: In the wake of an N.Y. Times investigation that found Trump had benefited from more than $400 million in tax schemes, city officials said they were investigating Trump’s tax payments, as did the New York State Tax Department. The Trump Foundation Emoluments lawsuit: The attorneys general for Maryland and D.C. sent out subpoenas earlier this month for Trump Organization and hotel financial records relating to their lawsuit that the president is in breach of the “Emoluments Clause” of the Constitution, which appears to prohibit the president from accepting payments from foreign powers while in office. And there’s a mystery investigation from an unknown office: Redacted Case #2: A second, redacted Flynn investigation could be one of the other investigations mentioned here. It could also represent another as-yet-unknown unfolding criminal case or could be a counterintelligence investigation that will never become public. Trump is the master of diversion. He has said from the beginning that the Mueller investigation is a witch hunt. But let’s look at the comparative facts: The Benghazi investigation lasted four years and yielded zero indictments. The Clinton email investigation lasted two years and also yielded zero indictments. The Mueller investigation has been operating for only 14 months and already, 23 indictments have been filed; numerous guilty pleas and jail terms; and 17 ongoing investigations. I am going to leave that right there!
RED LINE PUSHING SUSPECT DIES IN CUSTODY Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor
A man suspected of pushing someone onto the Red Line train tracks has died after being taken into custody in downtown Los Angeles, police said. A man suspected of pushing someone onto the Red Line train tracks has died after being
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taken into custody in downtown Los Angeles, police said. The Los Angeles Fire Department received a wireless 911 call to the Red Line station platform near 5th and Hill streets around 9:15 a.m. The caller stated there was a young man on the plat-
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month. “And it is not worth it. We don’t make that,” she said. Brinson has operated at her Manchester Boulevard and Prairie Avenue location for eight years. The reason, merchants say, is Inglewood’s changing landscape. They blame speculators positioning themselves for the opening of the NFL stadium, which is set for 2020. “The owner, he thinks that because the stadium is coming that it is going to bring money - and it will. But the money is not here now,” Brinson said. Business prospectors are not new arrivals to Inglewood says Mayor James Butts. He said the upturn started in 2012, before the stadium was envisioned. “Since 2012, real estate values have gone up 125 percent. Business licenses taken out in the city are up 200 percent,” Butts said. Brinson said she is looking for a new location for her Mississippi soul food. The owner of Jamz Creamery said he is ex-
form, and there was word of an assailant, who was nowhere to be seen when firefighters arrived. Police said the suspect pushed someone onto the train tracks then fled. Both the suspect and victim ended up on the tracks following the push. Fire officials said the victim suffered some contusions and cuts but did not want to be transported. Shortly afterward, the suspect was taken into custody about a block away at 5th and Flower streets. He was transported to an area hospital and pronounced dead. It was not clear how he died. The identities of the victim and suspect were not immediately available.
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panding at his present location on Manchester Boulevard and will pass on the added expense to customers. “They honestly don’t even look at the price board. They come in and get what they want,” Allen said. What appears to be clear to the small business owners is that they must consider re-organizing their business model to respond to the ‘new’ Inglewood which has attracted billions in external investments over the next several years. Inglewood is no longer viewed as the least most desirable city in the Southbay. The cities that used to be generally perceived as most desirable, now promote themselves as Inglewood-adjacent!
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The Chargers are soaring & the Rams are slumping By Steve Finley Both of the Los Angeles professional football teams have the same 11-3 record but one team one team has won four games in a row and the other team has lost two games in a row. The surprising Chargers are have won four straight games. They will try to make it five in a row when they face the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday at 5:20 p.m. at the StubHub Center in Carson. The Rams travel to Arizona on Sunday to play the Cardinals at 1 p.m. The Chargers are winning games under second year coach Anthony Lynn that a few years ago they would have lost. On December 2, they were down by 16 points at halftime to the Pittsburg Steelers and came back to win the game. Last week against the Kansas City Chiefs they came from behind again and won the on the last play of the game. Why have things changed for the Chargers? They have some of the same players they had several years ago. The biggest thing the Chargers changed was their coaching staff. From the first day the media met the coaching staff at the StubHub Center we got the impression that this was a serious group of coaches that were ready to make a difference. It also helps to have Hall of Fame quarterback guiding the ship. Phillip Rivers is having a Tom Brady like season.
Regardless of who is on the field with him he has been able to use all of his offensive weapons despite injuries to several key offensive players. The defense has also stepped up and has been outstanding at times. The Rams are slumping at the right time, if that makes sense. If you are going to hit some bumps in the road this may be the time to do it but they need to get back on the right track because the playoffs are a few weeks away.
LEBRON JAMES AND THE LAKERS WILL HAVE HOME GAMES AGAINST NEW ORLEANS ON FRIDAY AT 7:30 P.M. AND S UNDAY AT 6:30 P.M. AGAINST MEMPHIS.
After their loss to the Philadelphia Eagles last Sunday night at the Coliseum Rams head coach Sean McVay was ask the question, ‘What’s wrong with the team,’ and he replied, “I not really sure. That’s something that we’ve got to figure out. We’ve got to figure it out in a hurry. Its guys that are making decisions that typically we haven’t seen. However you cut it we are all in this together.” MCVay continued to say, “There’s concern about just our overall operation. It’s starts with me and I have to do a better job. We’ve all got to do a better job. The only thing I know how to do is go back to work, look inwardly and then make sure we are coaching t h e guys hard.”