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Jazz Profiles from NPR Duke Ellington: The Pianist Produced by Robert Levi   The piano was at the heart and soul of Duke Ellington’s approach to making music. In addition to his supreme musical gifts as a bandleader, composer and arranger, showman and entertainer, Ellington also left an indelible mark as one of the seminal pianists in jazz. Listen to biographer John Edward Hasse, flutist James Newton, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis reflect on Duke's piano playing Though he took lessons from the age of five, Ellington’s interest in playing piano surged during his early teenage years, as he became acquainted with the “stride” style.

A pregnant mother-of-three was gunned down by an off-duty police officer in the Dominican Republic after she reportedly fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident, sparking mass outrage in the Caribbean nation. Leslie Rosado, 36, was killed by police corporal Janli Disla Batista in the town of Boca Chica on Saturday night after she left her father's birthday party. According to a preliminary police report, Rosado rear-ended Disla Batista's motorcycle, knocking him, his wife and their children to the pavement and sped away.

The ObserverPop and rockReview(Bella Union) The Texas rockers enlist their former tourmates’ guitarist on this slick and soulful meeting of minds Texas band White Denim boast a rich album discography that delights beyond the sum of its parts. If the band, led by James Petralli, often sound like a psychedelic version of Steely Dan played by punk and rock fans, it’s because that’s roughly what they are. Tight and virtuosic but never self-indulgent, White Denim fashion time-signature changes into grooves – a process enhanced here by guitarist and singer Raze Regal, formerly of Oakland psych-pop outfit the Once and Future Band, one-time White Denim tourmates.

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TMZ/Getty Composite Zayn Malik's confrontation with Yolanda Hadid -- the one that ended with Zayn pleading no contest to 4 criminal charges -- was all about boundaries ... boundaries he says she violated. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Zayn was at Gigi's home Sept. 29, where he was staying because he wanted to be close to his daughter. Our sources say on that day Yolanda "barged" into the house, without calling beforehand or even knocking at the door.

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Strawweight fighter Mackenzie Dern is returning to fight for the second time this year at UFC 295. She will take on former champion Jessica Andrade in Madison Square Garden. As Dern gears up for her next fight, we will take a look at her physical attributes and the diet on which she operates. Mackenzie Dern sports a muscular physique. Just like any other fighter, it is a result of years of hard work, dedicated training, and conditioning.

The ObserverLanguage This article is more than 4 years oldMay I have a word about... the revival of gongoozlingThis article is more than 4 years oldJonathan BouquetAs a survey of English dialects is updated, a suggestion for those who enjoy messing about on canalsThe Survey of English Dialects, to which my colleague Kenan Malik referred last week, will be the first update to a study first undertaken in the 1950s. The original fieldworkers recorded such splendid words as ferntickles (freckles), blatherskite (gossip) and coochy-pawed (left-handed).