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Theodore Rosengarten comment on Wynton Marsalis's new jazz oratorio, Blood on the Fields, which follows man and woman from their home in Africa to slavery in America; interview; work will be performed at Lincoln Center as part of 24-city tour; photos (M)
Members of rock band Kiss talk about mistakes they made managing their money in early days of their celebrity, in 1970's, and their determination to do better this time; photos (L)
Albert Shanker, who transformed New York City's United Federation of Teachers into one of nation's most powerful unions in 1960's, dies at age 69; succumbs after three-year battle with bladder cancer; was longtime president of American Federation of Teachers; his rise from substitute mathematics teacher to tough, canny labor leader discussed; photos (M)
Bomb at Atlanta Gay Club Leaves 5 People Injured Another bombing in Atlanta injured five people at a gay nightclub, and law-enforcement officials, already investigating earlier incidents, are wondering whether a serial bomber is at work. Page 18. Turkey's Identity Crisis Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey is forever asking where it belongs. Now, it feels rebuffed as it tries to enter the European Union. Page 3.
Dobbs Ferry Mayor Donald Marra recommends approval of long-delayed townhouse project of 90 units along Hudson River site (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 19, 1997, covering February 23, 1997.
No Doubt
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Toni Braxton
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Celine Dion
1997Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player[†]
Jamal Murray is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Canadian national team and played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. He was selected by the Nuggets as the seventh overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft. He was a part of the team's first championship run in 2023.
1997Tony Williams, American drummer, composer, and producer (born 1945)[†]
Anthony Tillmon Williams was an American jazz drummer. Williams first gained fame as a member of Miles Davis' "Second Great Quintet", and later pioneered jazz fusion with Davis' group and his own combo, the Tony Williams Lifetime. In 1970, music critic Robert Christgau described him as "probably the best drummer in the world." Williams was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1997.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]