With Horace Silver, Blakey founded the Jazz Messengers (1954), toured Europe, and recorded (1955 61) a brilliant string of records for the Blue Note label.
Baumgartner has already racked up a string of records, including in 1999 jumping from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, then the tallest buildings in the world.
A sort of Oscars for children, the program is one of cable's most-watched events of the year, drawing 7.7 million viewers last year, the latest in a string of records for the show.
Drossin, 31, who said she lost her love for running in the mid-1990'setset an American women's record for the marathon (2 21 16), her latest in a string of records, last Sunday in London.
Over the last 23 years, on a string of records made almost exclusively for the Chicago label Drag City, you sense that he's walked past those doors, revising his ideas, waiting, looking for something.
Still, it's hard to think of a string of records as consistently powerful, shape-shifting, and durable as Mitchell's albums from the seventies, beginning with "Ladies of the Canyon," in 1970, and concluding, in 1979, with "Mingus".
There's just one flaw in this string of records: this government, like the last, isn't willing to allow all those who have the grades and the motivation to go to university.
Donald Brown BORN TO BE BLUE A jazz pianist who played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the early 1980s and has long taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Donald Brown has made a varied string of records since 1996 for the French label Space Time.
A pianist from Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Mendes came to the United States in the 1960's and, on a string of records produced by Herb Alpert, manufactured English-language versions of bossa-nova songs, as well as bossa-nova versions of the Beatles, Burt Bacharach and soul hits.
Disco gave new life to the perennial human desire to dance, and turned it into an art form where the DJ was a new kind of high priest: as Aletti wrote, "there's no question that a real DJ can shape a night of music with his personality, style and spirit, magically turning a string of records into a spontaneous symphony".
