I recently discovered new land in the world of
Beatles' bastard pop. This unknown territory has
arrived through the skilled reworkings of Terminus J,
a mixer with a passion for the Beatles & the means to
deliver. I just found his PataMixical Science, Volume
One & thought it was a great listen. In the
project, Terminus J reduces the Beatles' tracks to the
separate channels, & then rebuilds them again in new
arrangements that are creative & satisfying. Imagine
my surprise to discover Terminus J has already done
FOUR VOLUMES in the series! I got part four as a
torrent, & it is just as good.
The project seems defined by finestkind
production-sound & inventive arrangements that reveal
new aspects of the source tracks. You may know the
Beatles' version, but you won't know what to expect
here. You may hear the lads doing some humorous
pub-style singing, or some off-the-wall ad-libbing set
against psychedelic swirls of sound.Terminus J keeps
it lively & engaging.
I got The Man Himself to provide some
statements. His words speak for themselves.
"Prior to PataMixical Science, I had been well known
for the Magical Mystery Mixes series, which are
basically audio isolations, but instead of using the
computer, it is done in analog, that is, using a
mixing board and tricky wiring to get the isolations.
After doing an extensive mix on two songs for the BRG
Abbey Road remix, done in analog and taking forever,
I decided that it was time to actually learn how to
use software, and go digital. So the PataMixical
Science are my "digital remixes", the type where you
chop up the songs, change things around, and the
like.
I hadn't started any mashups at that point, it was
Beatles on Beatles. I also separately before this
came up with the term 'PataMixical Science' while
doing the Abbey Road remix (one of my three
contributions was Maxwell's Silver Hammer that had the
line about Pataphysical Science). When helping the
group decide on a series name, I came up with the
term PataMixical Science and then came up with a
definition for it as well: PataMixical Science "The
science of imaginary Mixes, which musically alters
the properties of songs, described by their new
effect, to their distinctive features. Mixers within
the PataMixical tradition tend to focus on the
processes of their creation, and elements of chance
or arbitrary choices are frequently key in the Mixing
processes.
Well, the idea was rejected for the BRG series, but I
picked it up on my own. The first disc was my attempt
to make a weird "story" about the Sgt Pepper. Out in
the country a group gets together to practice some
songs, go to an audition, win the prized spot at the
Chi Chis/Slaggers club, where they play their songs
and do their act. [I always kind of visualized it as
sort of a Laugh-In type show, except it was Beatles
music and them doing the skits, if that makes any
sense.] -Terminus J. Threnody
Mix Of The Week -WTF 43 From talented UK mixer MP3J
has tons of great original mashups, freshly minted and
ready for consumption. Yes, indeed, if you like it, there
are 42 previous WTF mixes that you can search out &
savor. WTF 43 is 142 minutes, contains strong
language, and is heavily-weighed towards The Beatles.
It can be found at: mp3j.podomatic.com
& be sure & check out his great Beatles Remixers'
forum at gossiping.net/phpBB2/index.php?mforum=beatlesremixers
David Podvin: PUPPET MASTER (makethemaccountable.com)
Osama has been gaming the United States every step of the way during the "War On Terror". First, he lured the eager George W. Bush into the quicksand of Iraq, thereby neutralizing the American military around the world. ... Now, just as Petraeus is about to deliver his congressional testimony Osama has created a mirage of American success by having jihadists adopt a low profile. And right on schedule he has provided another chilling videotape with which Bush can terrify the American people into staying the course, a course that insures certain defeat for the United States.
Jim Hightower: LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF FREEDOM'S WATCH (jimhightower.com)
While the wounded vet in their ad says "It's no time for politics," Freedom's Watch is nothing but politics. In its ads, viewers are urged to "Call your Congressman," and a toll-free number is provided. Only - the number doesn't connect you to congress. Instead, a Freedom's Watch operator answers and immediately asks if you support Bush's rationales for his war. If you say no, the operator politely refers you to the group's website - and hangs up on you! Only people who agree with Bush are connected to congress.
Richard Roeper : Would you like a tissue, Mr. President? (suntimes.com)
In the new book titled Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, author Robert Draper quotes President Bush as saying, "I do tears," and: "I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job." And there are many Americans that do a lot of crying watching what you've done with the job, Mr. President.
Carolyn Segal: Assessmentdelirium (irascibleprofessor.com)
There's a wonderful word that describes the mania for orchid collecting in the nineteenth century: orchidelirium. I've thought of it frequently as a similar manifestation -- assessment delirium -- has whirled through and shaken the halls and syllabi of colleges and universities.
Heroes (popmatters.com)
Do we really need yet another story about people discovering supernatural abilities and learning to do good - or evil - with them? The answer: if it's this good, why not?
Eat yourself fit (guardian.co.uk)
We'd like to think that taking regular exercise means we can eat what we want, when we want. If only it were that simple, says Rebecca Hardy.
The first LSD trip took place on April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested 250 micrograms and tried to go home:
I had to struggle to speak intelligibly. I asked my laboratory assistant, who was informed of the self-experiment, to escort me home. We went by bicycle, no automobile being available because of wartime restrictions on their use. On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me we had traveled very rapidly.
It was date night in downtown Oakland. Couples settled in to the comfortable couches at the Parkway Theater with popcorn and beer in hand to watch the Hollywood version of the life of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene…the sixties soulful pimp supreme superfly Washington D.C. "tell it like it is" brother #1 …..WOL 1450 A.M…..D.J…
But Wait a Minute....
This dude was in the joint for armed robbery……what the Fuck ?
Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene (Don Cheadle - "Boogie Nights" (1997) - "Crash" ( 2004) - "Hotel Rwanda" (2004) robbed a grocery store and got 10 years at the Lorton Reformatory. He took over the duties as the Prison Disc Jockey and cut his teeth on "Cons"! One day his brother Milo (Mike Epps) got a visitor from the outside….A man named Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor - "Dirty Pretty Things" (2002) - "Love Actually" (2003) - "Kinky Boots" (2005) who was the program director for the DC radio station WOL of course "Petey" pushed himself onto Dewey and made him promise to give him a job as a D.J. when he got out of prison.
In walks the greatest Afro...EVER....
So Petey gets out of the joint and hooks up with his girlfriend Vernell (Taraji P. Henson - "Satan's School for Girls" (2000) - "Baby Boy" (2001) - "Hustle & Flow" (2005) who happens to be sporting the finest fucking "Fro" in the history of mankind (and a fine ass micro mini skirt with a low cut top and gold earings….whew!).... together, fully pimped out, they storm the office of WOL where Petey confronts the very white owner, E.G. Sonderling (Martin Sheen), and says "When do I start ?"
It's hard out here for a pimp….
"No dice" says E.G….so Petey starts a protest movement outside saying WOL doesn't like blacks (even though their 2 biggest D.J.'s are black). This doesn't work, so Petey pimps Dewey into locking him into the studio and having him broadcast live…."Hello DC this is your soul brother #1 just telling it like it is……call me and tell me what's up" - he's got James Brown playing in the background "This is a Man's World"….the phones light up and Petey takes over the D.C. airwaves….
What a Great soundtrack....
"Knock on Wood"………………Eddie Floyd
"Sweet Soul Music"……………..Arthur Conley
"Hold on…I'm Comin'"…………Sam and Dave
"Hip Hugger"…………………….Booker T. and the M.G.s
"Tramp"…………………………..Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
"Cool Jerk"……………………….The Capitols
"Hello Stranger"………………….Barbara Lewis
"Tighten Up"……………………..Archie Bell and the Drells
The Fire Next Time....
Martin Luther King Jr. gets shot and Washington D.C. goes up in flames…James Baldwin style…..Petey goes on the air and talks to the city…the disillusioned , disenfranchised and pissed of people who are looking for somebody to blame….and are burning and looting and beating up white folks….Petey calms everyone down…because he was telling it like it is…..from the soul.
Dewey has big plans for Petey (and himself as his manager)…he gets Petey booked on the Comedy Circuit, his own TV show and then…a shot on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson….but Petey is a small time con man who really only wants to sit behind the mike and talk to the people on air…….the sequence of the Tonight and after wards turned the movie from a tight soulful uplifting drama to a soap opera….
Purple Gene gives "Talk to Me" 8 "right ons" out of 10 for being visually fantastic, musically masterful but, unfortunately, the story line falters at the end.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Power Of 10', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Viggo Mortensen, Kat Von D, Daughtry, a Top Ten List presented by 10 NASCAR stars
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julie Chen, Dario Franchitti, and Spoon.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Comic Standing', followed by a FRESH'Last Comic Standing', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno (R-Enabler) are Kelsey Grammer, Dan Fogler, and the Bravery.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Mary-Kate Olsen, Wayne Brady, and Lyle Lovett.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Frank Caliendo and A Fine Frenzy.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Jim', followed by another RERUN'Jim', then a RERUN'Just For Laughs', followed by another RERUN'Just For Laughs', then a FRESH'NASCAR In Primetime'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Denis Leary, Charlie Day, and Modest Mouse.
The CW offers a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by another RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a RERUN'Til Death', followed by another RERUN'Til Death', then a RERUN'Bones'.
MY has a FRESH'Decision House', followed by a FRESH'Meet My Folks'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', still another 'CSI: The 2nd One', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Escape From Alcatraz', followed by the movie 'Midway', then the movie 'Sands Of Iwo Jima'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2;
[1:00 PM] Everything Must Go - Episode 6;
[1:30 PM] Everything Must Go - Episode 7;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 15;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6;
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 4 Moore Place;
[6:00 PM] My Family - Ep 7 Blind Justice;
[6:30 PM] My Family - Ep 8 Friday the 31st;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7;
[8:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 5;
[9:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 6;
[10:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 5 The Girl with Two Breasts;
[10:40 PM] The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 8;
[11:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 5;
[12:00 AM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 6;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 5 The Girl with Two Breasts;
[1:40 AM] The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 8;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 16;
[3:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 8;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 17 Penarth;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Petersborough 2;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 16 Shepton Mallet 73;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 2;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 3 Hinton;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Sarah Silverman'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Robert Draper.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Joel Klein.
FX has the movie 'Coach Carter', followed by the movie 'The Punisher', and the SEASON FINALE'Rescue Me'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Lost Worlds', and 'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[06:50 AM] Only the Strong Survive;
[08:30 AM] Man of the Century;
[09:55 AM] Jet Lag;
[11:25 AM] Only the Strong Survive;
[01:10 PM] Man of the Century;
[02:35 PM] Action Indies: Extraordinary Location Scouts;
[03:05 PM] Jet Lag;
[04:35 PM] Only the Strong Survive;
[06:20 PM] Strictly Ballroom;
[08:00 PM] The Business #206: The Family Jules;
[08:30 PM] Minor Accomplishments #206: The Carolina Moonshiners;
[09:00 PM] Igby Goes Down;
[10:45 PM] Spanking the Monkey;
[12:30 AM] Igby Goes Down;
[02:15 AM] Spanking the Monkey;
[04:00 AM] The Business #206: The Family Jules;
[04:35 AM] Minor Accomplishments #206: The Carolina Moonshiners;
[05:05 AM] Jet Lag. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[04:00 AM] A Fond Kiss;
[06:00 AM] Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident;
[07:00 AM] The Syrian Bride;
[08:00 AM] In Short: Festival 7;
[09:00 AM] Da Kath & Kim Code;
[10:00 AM] Tales of the Rat Fink;
[12:00 PM] Through My Thick Glasses;
[12:00 PM] The Hero;
[02:00 PM] The Syrian Bride;
[04:00 PM] Who Are You Polly Maggoo?;
[05:00 PM] Da Kath & Kim Code;
[07:00 PM] The Hero;
[09:00 PM] Episode 4: Looks Can Lie;
[09:00 PM] Short Hymn, Silent War;
[10:00 PM] Breathless (1960);
[11:00 PM] Tout Va Bien;
[01:00 AM] Morvern Callar;
[03:00 AM] Chapter 1. Crime or accident;
[03:00 AM] Chapter 2. Secrets and lies;
[04:00 AM] Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers. (ALL TIMES EDT)
In this photo provided by Hard Rock International, Willie Nelson, center, poses with his wife Annie, second left, and children Micah, Lukas and Amy, left to right, Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, in New York, at Hard Rock's Ambassadors of Rock concert tour featuring Willie Nelson and Friends. The event launches the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, co-founded by Annie Nelson and Daryl Hannah, which promotes sustainable biodiesel practices.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Before Kathy Griffin won a creative arts Emmy last weekend for her reality show, "My Life on the D-List," she joked that an award would move her to the C-list.
She was right: "C" as in censored. The TV academy said her raucous acceptance speech will be edited when the event, which was taped, is shown Saturday on the E! channel. The main prime-time Emmy Awards air the next night on Fox.
In her speech, Griffin said that "a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus."
She went on to hold up her Emmy, make an off-color remark about Christ and proclaim, "This award is my god now!"
According to the TV academy and E!, when the four hour-plus ceremony is edited into a two-hour program, Griffin's remarks will be shown in "an abbreviated version" in which some language may be bleeped.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (R) smiles with actor Danny Glover at the premiere of "Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains" at the Elgin theatre during the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival September 10, 2007. The festival runs until September 15.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Pianist Leon Fleisher, actor Steve Martin, singers Diana Ross and Brian Wilson and film director Martin Scorsese will share the 30th annual honors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December.
Resident Bush and the first lady will host the honorees Dec. 2, before attending a gala performance and supper dance at the Kennedy Center. Secretary of State Second lady Condoleezza Rice will present the honors at a State Department dinner the night before.
The Kennedy Center honors will be recorded and broadcast Dec. 26 for the 30th consecutive year on CBS as a two-hour prime-time special. The honors recognize a lifetime of contributions to American culture through the performing arts.
Michael Douglas and Charlie Rose will be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the 10th annual Savannah Film Festival.
The festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., will run Oct. 27-Nov. 3.
Siblings Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave will also be honored. Their selection was announced last month.
Films to be screened at the festival include Marc Forster's "The Kite Runner," Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Tamara Jenkins' "The Savages," the animated "Persepolis," James C. Strouse's "Grace Is Gone" and Terry George's "Reservation Road."
Actress and comedian Sherri Shepherd made her debut on Monday as the new permanent co-host of ABC's popular morning talk show "The View," filling the seat abruptly vacated last year by Star Jones Reynolds.
Ending months of speculation about who would be chosen to round out the show's talent roster, Shepherd, 40, joins new lead moderator Whoopi Goldberg and fellow co-hosts Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters, the show's creator.
Shepherd, who began her career moonlighting as a stand-up comic while toiling by day as a secretary, got her first big break in the short-lived 1995 TV comedy "Cleghorne!," and later starred for four seasons on ABC's "Less Than Perfect." She also has appeared on such shows as "Friends," "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Jamie Foxx Show."
Lisa Marie Presley, center, her daughter Riley Keough, left, and her husband Michael Lockwood watch the Anna Sui 2008 spring/summer show at Fashion Week in New York, Monday, Sept. 10, 2007.
Photo by Seth Wenig
If some people thought traveling to Iraq and Syria was a ratings stunt for Katie Couric, it didn't work out that way.
The "CBS Evening News" tied a record low with just under 5.5 million viewers last week, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday. Last week and Memorial Day week are the two least-watched CBS evening newscasts since at least 1987, and probably far earlier.
CBS said it wasn't surprising, and argued bullshitted themselves that last week's numbers were artificially deflated because of U.S. Open coverage.
War coverage Propaganda took between 80 and 90 percent of the "CBS Evening News" broadcasts while Couric was there. Harry Smith gave a brief rundown of other headlines from CBS' New York studio.
John McTiernan, director of such hit movies as "Die Hard" and "The Thomas Crown Affair," requested a withdrawal of his guilty plea in a Hollywood wiretaps case.
McTiernan pleaded guilty in April 2006 to making "knowingly false" statements to an FBI agent about Anthony Pellicano, the celebrity private eye he admitted hiring to wiretap a business associate.
But before his expected sentencing before a federal judge Monday, McTiernan's attorneys filed a motion to withdraw the plea, saying the filmmaker pleaded guilty because he didn't receive adequate legal representation at the time.
When he entered his plea last year, McTiernan said he told an FBI agent the only time he used Pellicano's service was during his divorce. In actuality, he said, he hired Pellicano to wiretap Charles Roven. Roven worked with McTiernan on the 2002 box-office flop "Rollerball."
Kirsten Storms, who voices the snippy cheerleader Bonnie Rockwaller in the animated Disney TV series "Kim Possible," was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Storms, who also appears in the daytime soap opera "General Hospital," was stopped Friday in a Los Angeles suburb after California Highway Patrol officers said they saw a lit cigarette tossed from her blue Mercedes-Benz CLK500 about 3 a.m.
Officers noticed "the odor of an alcoholic beverage" coming from the car, according to a CHP report on the arrest. Storms, 23, was arrested after failing field sobriety tests, the report said.
A Brussels court has ruled that Michael Jackson's 1995 hit "You are not alone" is largely similar to a song penned by Belgian twins two years previously, local media reported Tuesday.
All the authorial rights of the Jackson number one hit, written by Robert Kelly, alias US singer-songwriter R. Kelly, therefore are switched to the brothers according to the court ruling handed down last week.
The twin composers have fought for 12 years to gain recognition for their work, however the judgment is only applicable in Belgium and getting hold of royalties may be no simple task.
A judge on Monday rejected an agreement to send a 1927 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe from Fisk University to a New Mexico museum, saying the deal wasn't in the best interests of the state of Tennessee.
The painting, called "Radiator Building - Night, New York," was part of a 1949 gift to the school from the estate of O'Keeffe's husband, famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
The historically black university had agreed to send the painting to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe for $7.5 million and the right to sell another prominent painting on the open market.
But Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle said Monday that a rival offer from a new museum to be opened by the daughter of the late Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, offers better terms.
The Pacific gray whale population, thought by some experts to have rebounded fully from the ravages of whaling, actually is back to a mere fraction of historic levels, scientists said on Monday.
Knowing that an examination of genetic variation within a species can help gauge past population numbers, the scientists used a U.S. government tissue collection to analyze DNA samples from 42 gray whales.
The genetic variation seen among these whales indicated a past population far bigger than the current 22,000, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They determined that before large-scale hunting of this species began in the 19th century, there were about 96,000 gray whales in the Pacific Ocean -- with as many as many as 118,000 and as few as 76,000. That would mean the current count is 19 percent to 29 percent of the pre-hunting population.
An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Aug. 27-Sept. 2. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (19) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 10.31 million viewers.
2. (77) "The Power of Ten" (Tuesday), CBS, 9.89 million viewers.
3. (15) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 9.09 million viewers.
4. (22) "CSI: NY," CBS, 8.9 million viewers.
5. (23) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 8.46 million viewers.
6. (71) "The Power of Ten" (Wednesday), CBS, 8.34 million viewers.
7. (88) "Big Brother 8" (Tuesday), CBS, 8.14 million viewers.
8. (11) "House," Fox, 7.95 million viewers.
9. (7) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 7.77 million viewers.
10. (43) "Rules of Engagement," CBS, 7.62 million viewers.
11. (19) "NCIS," CBS, 7.47 million viewers.
12. (81) "Just for Laughs," ABC, 7.19 million viewers.
13. (23) "Without a Trace," CBS, 6.76 million viewers.
14. (109) "Last Comic Standing," NBC, 6.49 million viewers.
15. (109) "Just for Laughs" (Tuesday), ABC, 6.48 million viewers.
16. (98) "48 Hours Mystery," CBS, 6.31 million viewers.
17. (88) "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 6.212 million viewers.
18. (26) "Cold Case," CBS, 6.209 million viewers.
19. (27) "60 Minutes," CBS, 6.134 million viewers.
20. (98) "20/20" (Friday), ABC, 6.128 million viewers.
Jazz legend Joe Zawinul, who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz fusion and performed and recorded with Miles Davis, died early Tuesday, a hospital official said. He was 75.
Zawinul had been hospitalized since last month. A spokeswoman for Vienna's Wilhelmina Clinic confirmed his death without giving details.
Zawinul won widespread acclaim for his keyboard work on chart-topping Davis albums such as "In A Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew," and was a leading force behind the so-called "Electric Jazz" movement.
In 1970, Zawinul founded the band Weather Report and produced a series of albums including "Heavy Weather," "Black Market" and "I Sing the Body Electric." After that band's breakup, he founded the Zawinul Syndicate in 1987.
Zawinul is credited with bringing the electric piano and synthesizer into the jazz mainstream.
A gifted parrot that could count to six, identify colors and even express frustration with repetitive scientific trials has died after 30 years of helping researchers better understand the avian brain.
The death of Alex, an African Grey parrot, left scientists at Brandeis University feeling as if they'd lost a colleague.
"It's devastating to lose an individual you've worked with pretty much every day for 30 years," scientist Irene Pepperberg told The Boston Globe. "Someone was working with him 8 to 12 hours every day of his life."
Alex's advanced language and recognition skills revolutionized the understanding of the avian brain. After Pepperberg bought Alex from an animal shop in 1973, the parrot learned enough English to identify 50 different objects, seven colors, and five shapes. He could count up to six, including zero, was able to express desires, including his frustration with the repetitive research.
Pepperberg said Alex hadn't reached his full cognitive potential and was demonstrating the ability to take distinct sounds from words he knew and combine them to form new words. Just last month he pronounced the word "seven" for the first time.
The cause of Alex's death was unknown. The African Grey parrot's average life span is 50 years, Pepperberg said. She said Alex was discovered dead in his cage Friday morning. Pepperberg said she waited to release the news until Monday so grieving researchers could get over the shock and talk about it.
Giant panda Yang Yang holds her cub in the zoo in Vienna September 11, 2007. The cub was born early on August 23, 2007, 127 days after panda pair Yang Yang and Long Hui (not pictured) had paired in April, the zoo said. The pandas were transferred from China to Schoenbrunn Zoo in 2003, and are on loan to Austria by China for a period of 10 years.
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