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Alessandra Stanley reviews Tell Me A Story: The Man Who Made '60 Minutes', CBS's farewell tribute 60 Minutes creator and executive producer Don Hewitt; photos (M)
Commission investigating Sept 11 attacks will ask current and former New York City officials why city was not prepared to deal with attack on World Trade Center and why it is still struggling to coordinate disaster-response plans of its Police and Fire Departments; some commission members say that unflattering comparisons will be drawn between response of city and that of Pentagon when it was attacked; Pentagon has been praised for speed and coordination of its response; photos (M)
Britain's Pennon Group rejects bid from investors led by Terra Firma Capital Partners as too low; graph (S)
Naturalist and poet Diane Ackerman essays abouthearing birds singing at dawn; drawing (S)
European Union bows to pressure from US and approves deal to provide records of airline passengers to American authorities despite angry criticism by members of European Parliament who say agreement violates union's privacy laws; 25 governments in union effectively makes formal procedure in place since March 2003 that provides passenger information, like credit card numbers and addresses, to US customs officials before arrival of aircraft on American soil; US government says information speeds up immigration procedures and is needed to fight terrorism (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 12, 2004, covering May 18, 2004.
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Usher
Prince
Diana Krall
Mario Winans
2004Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (born 1927)[†]
Elvin Ray Jones was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appeared on such albums as My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Ascension and Live at Birdland. After 1966, Jones led his own trio, and later larger groups under the name The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. His brothers Hank and Thad were also celebrated jazz musicians with whom he occasionally recorded. Elvin was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1995. In his The History of Jazz, jazz historian and critic Ted Gioia calls Jones "one of the most influential drummers in the history of jazz". He was also ranked at Number 23 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time".
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]