David Ritz

David Ritz is an author, journalist, and lyricist. He lives in Los Angeles.

Tommy LiPuma speaks onstage at A&R Icons: Lenny Waronker and Tommy LiPuma at The Grammy Museum on Jan. 15, 2015 in Los Angeles.

Remembering Tommy LiPuma: 'His Indomitable Spirit Is Alive -- And Always Will Be'

March 16, 2017 7:09 PM EDT 
Veteran music executive and producer Tommy LiPuma died Monday March 13 following a brief illness. The five-time Grammy winner had worked with George Benson, Natalie Cole, Miles Davis, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand over a career that spanned five decades and positions at A&M Records, Elektra and Verve Music. Author David Ritz remembers his longtime friend.
Tommy LiPuma speaks onstage at A&R Icons: Lenny Waronker and Tommy LiPuma at The Grammy Museum on Jan. 15, 2015 in Los Angeles.
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Remembering Tommy LiPuma: 'His Indomitable Spirit Is Alive -- And Always Will Be'

March 16, 2017 7:09 PM EDT 
Veteran music executive and producer Tommy LiPuma died Monday March 13 following a brief illness. The five-time Grammy winner had worked with George Benson, Natalie Cole, Miles Davis, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand over a career that spanned five decades and positions at A&M Records, Elektra and Verve Music. Author David Ritz remembers his longtime friend.
Jimmy Scott.
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The Jimmy Scott I Knew: The Jazz Great Onstage in the Studio

February 14, 2017 4:58 PM EST 
I first heard the great jazz singer Jimmy Scott as a boy, in 1952. My truck-driver dad took me along on a pretzel delivery to a bar in Newark, New Jersey, where Scott was performing. His voice, awash with mystery and pain, mesmerized me. I heard Scott for the last time in 2009, in the studio as he cut an album that has at long last been released: I Go Back Home, the final recording before his death in 2014 at 89.
Bonnie Raitt photographed at Quixote Griffith Park in Los Angeles on Feb. 12, 2016.
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Bonnie Raitt on Channeling the 'Dark Stuff' For Her New Album and Why She Likes That Bernie Sanders Is Putting Hillary Clinton's 'Feet to the Fire'

February 19, 2016 2:00 PM EST 
In 2010, Bonnie Raitt was struggling with the loss of her brother and both of her parents. Now, 40-plus years into her career, shetook out her age, since it's in the story, per suggestion of NC has channeled 'the dark stuff' into her most personal album to date -- and reasserted her voice, denouncing the 'sickening' polarization of American politics.

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