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Blackwing Biography Series: Stephen Sondheim

Our last installment of the Blackwing Biography Series, celebrating the June release of the Palomino Blackwing 602 features the only person on our list who is still alive. He’s the American-born composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. [...]

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Blackwing Biography Series: Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle, an American-born composer, orchestrator, and bandleader, was an avid user of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing. His work with Capitol Records helped define a generation of big band. He worked with Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, [...]

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Blackwing Biography Series: Chuck Jones

Born in Spokane, Washington in 1912, animator Chuck Jones was perhaps most famous for drawing the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons for Warner Brothers for almost 30 years, starting in 1933, but he’s also very [...]