Former NBC president Julian Goodman Dies at 90

Julian Goodman, who has produced a experiodista the second Kennedy-Nixon before becoming the president of NBC during a tumultuous period of conflict with the government of Nixon, died Monday at his home in Juno Beach, Fla. He was 90 years.

The cause was kidney failure, said a spokesman for the family.

Although proud of the fact that often the defense of the First Amendment and the white of the Nixon White House as a political opponent, Mr. Goodman had a reputation for being shy and never ask for a promotion or a raise.

"People gave me when I did my job well," he wrote in 1985.

When he became president of NBC in 1965, told the New York Times, "I am not an ambitious man."

However, four years later, was engaged in a war of words with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who has accused the media coverage of the Vietnam War. Mr. Goodman said: "Obviously, I would have preferred a different kind of television communication - What I submit to any group was in authority at the time."

After discussing it with the composer of Nixon speeches Patrick J. Buchanan, who said the network should be decentralized, but Mr. Goodman called it "dangerous thought". Has resisted the administration when he threatened to licensees of broadcast news, if the divisions of the routine gave President Richard M. Nixon what he considered fair - that is, more favorable - coverage.

During his tenure, NBC, Mr. Goodman has also negotiated a record $ 1,000,000 agreed to keep Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show." He joined other leaders of the network to push to end the Fairness Doctrine, which forced the networks to the same time to different opinions. (E 'was finally abandoned.) I was forced to apologize to viewers in 1968, after NBC cut a message on a national network of New York Jets and Oakland Raiders, so play a movie version of "Heidi" could go as expected.

Viewers never see the end of the game, later known as the "Heidi Bowl" when Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minutes to overcome a 32-29 advantage in New York. Mr. Goodman called the schedule change "as an excuse."

"I miss the end of the game as much as anyone else," he said.

Bryn Julian Goodman was born on 1 May 1922, in Glasgow, Kentucky, and began his journalism career as a reporter for $ 3 a week for The Times of Glasgow.

After serving in the army, he moved to Washington where he met William McAndrews, head of NBC News, who joined the news desk of the night, replacing David Brinkley.

As manager of the Washington office, Mr. Goodman later became a strong supporter of Mr. Brinkley, NBC News press paired with Chet Huntley to anchor the 1956 Democratic and Republican conventions. The two came to fame in the anchor of the evening news network together for over a decade.

Mr. Goodman often jokes that Mr. Brinkley freeing the table the night was his greatest contribution to journalism.

Mr. Goodman was surprised that it has been identified by the Nixon government. (His name appeared on a list of White House "enemies", a complete list of the original 20 "enemies" of Nixon).

He recalled a visit in 1970 of collaborating Nixon, Charles W. Colson, who said he had come with the intention of intimidating. But Mr. Colson and Mr. Goodman describes as complacent, because the only ornament on the desk of Mr. Goodman was a medal from Mr. Nixon's 1969 inauguration.

That Mr. Colson did not know was that Mr. Goodman was notoriously messy table cleared, leaving only the medal as a joke.

Mr. Goodman has produced the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960 in Washington, in a study of the NBC.

Cleveland rejected the initial election, saying he could not find a suitable location there. Cleveland responded with shade, and Mr. Goodman rarely puts a foot in the city again.

Through their associations with Mr. McAndrews and then NBC president Robert Kintner, Mr. Goodman went up to the network level, reaching the president's office, when Mr. Kintner was fired in 1965 .

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Virtuoso of Latin Music Yomo Toro Dies at 78

Yomo Toro, a force in the Latin music scene in New York since 1950 and a virtuoso player of the left hand of four, an instrument of Puerto Rico mandolinlike, died Saturday in the Bronx. He was 78 years.

The cause was kidney failure, said his friend Aurora Flores, writer, journalist and musician.

Salsa, a dance orchestra music that took place in ambitious composer, jazz harmony and Cuban roots, moved to his best solo instrumental to the fore in the 60 and 70.

The records with Willie Colón, Hector Lavoe, Larry Harlow and the supergroup known as the Fania All-Stars, the sound became Mr. Toro, instantly recognizable.

He played the guitar and the rules of the guitar requinto smaller, but better known as cuatrista. Associated with popular culture and music of Puerto Rican jibaro or inside mountains, the four have 10 strings in five groups of two octaves, unisons or both.

Mr. Toro could be cut with an orchestra, especially once you have started adding an electric truck and connected to an amplifier.

In the records as Mr. Columbus "Dona Tona" and "La Murga" and the Fania All-Stars "Take off you" - taken from a 1971 performance at the Cheetah Club in New York that was filmed for the documentary "Our Latin Thing" - has appeared as soloist with great thrust and swing.

Influenced by Cuban musician Arsenio Rodriguez, who played three (analogous to Cuba in four), was closed to the rhythm section vampires burst into frantic strumming and brilliant or improvised melodically, landing his notes between beats.

Mr. Toro was born Victor Guillermo Toro Vega Ramos Rodríguez Acosta July 26, 1933, in Ensenada, the municipality of Guánica, near the southwestern Puerto Rico. His father, Alberto, has led to a truck for sugarcane mills in southern Puerto Rico Company and four played in a band with Mr. Toro uncles.

Mr. Toro followed his father to the parts of the house and began learning to play the requinto and four very young. In his teens he moved to Saint John to work with the band Los Quatro aces (four aces), led by singer reported sold. The group's work led him to New York for the first time in 1953, and had settled there permanently in 1957.

Mr. Toro of Puerto Rico and the traditional Mexican music played on guitar and four in New York through the 1950 and '60 - with singers Odilio Gonzalez and Victor Santiago and Los Panchos Rolón, the trio internationally renowned Mexican bolero, among others.

In the 60's hosted his own television Channel 41 in New York, "The Show of Yomo Toro", and has fully achieved with the sauce, which was becoming both a musical and a progressive grassroots movement.

It's been hired to play in a salsa album with Christmas themes by Mr. Dove, "Christmas Assault", which included songs of celebration of Puerto Rico, or the tradition of Christmas carols. It became one of the most successful albums of Fania, the label's largest salsa, and his reputation was solidified the role of four in the sauce.

Album of success has spawned a sequel in 1973, and a third holiday album in 1979 with Mr. Lavoe and singer Daniel Santos. (From the covers of these two albums represent Mr. Toro is dressed as Santa Claus. Short, round, happy and rarely seen without a hat after 1970, fits this role and went on to attend holiday concerts .

Mr. Bull is a personality remains modest compared to some of the other superstars of the sauce. "We sat in the living room and play like he played at Madison Square Garden," said Flores. "He brought the salt-of-the-ground mentality jibaro music. In this way, culture has taught us that we can be proud of the culture."

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Jazz Trumpeter Abram Wilson Dies at 38

Abram Wilson, a jazz trumpeter and acclaimed American composer from New Orleans, which helped a new generation of jazz artists in Britain, playing a kind of cultural attaché of the cradle of jazz, died on 9 June in London. He was 38 years.

He died several days after stopping a series of concerts and recording equipment in a hospital with stomach pains, his wife, Jennie Cashman, said the London Evening Standard newspaper. The cause was cancer, said his wife.

Mr. Wilson, who grew up in New Orleans and its rich musical traditions hybrid was known for his combination of musical forms - Quicksilver mix of bebop, with storms of hip-hop songs of Stevie Wonder sang with the heart of his modest voice Domingo.

He wove into the plot of his most ambitious music. The autobiographical concept album of 2007, "Ride! Wheel to the Modern Day Delta," for example, was a kind of work of a jazz trumpeter who tries to escape his roots to become a jazz superstar hip-hop, but returns to "sometimes to the extreme.

While British make a series of awards to his work, including the BBC Jazz Award for best new CD in 2007, Mr. Wilson has demonstrated a commitment to their roots of jazz Americans often faced with a fervor almost missionary, music critics, he said.

On stage, between numbers, sometimes gave impromptu lessons in the history of the many streams that flowed into the jazz music of New Orleans.

In cities where loans are made English, who often took his hand in schools to talk about the history of music, teaching the basics of improvisation and give you a flavor of the music of many They had never heard.

"I speak of the story - how people were brought from Africa to work on cotton plantations in America, and how the blues was created, and how he brought jazz," said an interview with a British newspaper in 2008. "Jazz is so different. People should be introduced to it."

Jason Toynbee, an expert on immigration cultural influences at the Open University of London, has described Mr. Wilson as a figure "very important" in the British music scene of jazz known as Black. "Approaching jazz as a form of music in evolution, but also as an important cultural force in history," he said in an interview last week.

In a melting pot of British jazz musicians from Europe, the Caribbean and Africa, added Mr. Toynbee, Mr. Wilson has seen his role, at least in part, as a representative of the American sensibility.

Abram Wilson was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 30, 1973, the eldest of six children of Doris and Willie Wilson. After his family moved to New Orleans, was inspired to learn the trumpet, with local musicians to visit their school.

But he credited his parents with his decision to make music his profession. When I was a teenager, said he told his father that he was considering becoming a lawyer, a doctor or an engineer. His father replied: "You know what I will take a screen test."

Mr. Wilson attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. also studied there), and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University before receiving a master in performance and composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.

In New York, he formed his own quartet and played with trumpeter Roy Hargrove Big Band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and rhythm and blues singer Ruth Brown.

After moving to London in 2002, Mr. Wilson has made three albums for the records of dunes, the British jazz: "Jazz Warrior" (2004), "! Ride ferris wheel to the Modern Day Delta "(2007) and" Life Tables "(2009).

He is survived by his wife, his parents, four brothers, a sister and his grandmother, Oradell Barker.

Had just finished and started to run a jazz suite life of Philippa Schuyler, an American piano prodigy, born black father and white mother, who visited the country in 1930 and '40, I was disappointed by American racism and died in 1967 at a charity mission in Vietnam in 35 years.

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