Freddie Redd
Freddie Redd( born May 29, 1928) is an American hard- bop pianist and composer.
He is probably best known for writing music to accompany" The Connection"( 1959), a play by Jack Gelber.
Freddie Redd
Freddie Redd( born May 29, 1928) is an American hard- bop pianist and composer.
He is probably best known for writing music to accompany" The Connection"( 1959), a play by Jack Gelber.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Jack Gelber
Jack Gelber( April 12, 1932 – May 9, 2003) was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama" The Connection", depicting the life of drug- addicted jazz musicians.
The first great success of the Living Theatre, the play was translated into five languages and produced in ten nations.
Gelber continued to work and write in New York, where he also taught writing, directing and drama as a professor, chiefly at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he created the MFA program in playwriting.
In 1999 he received the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award in recognition of his lifetime of achievements in theatre.
Günter Wendt
Günter F. Wendt( also spelled Guenter Wendt; August 28, 1924 – May 3, 2010) was a German- American mechanical engineer noted for his work in the U.S. human spaceflight program.
An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation, he was in charge of the spacecraft close- out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury and Gemini programs( 1961 – 1966), and the manned phase of the Apollo program( 1968 – 1975) at the Kennedy Space Center( KSC).
His official title was Pad Leader.
In NASA documentary films, Wendt appears as the bespectacled, thin man in a bow- tie and white cap and coat, usually standing near the hatch, clipboard in hand; or bending over seated crew members, pulling their safety harnesses snug for launch.
The Sailor's Song
The Sailor's Song is an East German black- and- white film directed by Kurt Maetzig and Günter Reisch.
It was released in 1958.
The Music From The Connection (Freddie Redd Quartet)
The Music From "The Connection" is an album of music composed by jazz pianist Freddie Redd for Jack Gelber's 1959 play "The Connection".
This first recording of the music was released on the Blue Note label in 1960.
It features performances by Redd, Jackie McLean, Michael Mattos, and Larry Ritchie.
Jack Gelber originally planned for the play to feature improvised music performed by jazz musicians who would also play small roles in the production.
Freddie Redd however persuaded Gelber to include his original score.
Redd recorded the score again later in 1960 as "Music from the Connection".
Udo Hempel
Udo Hempel( born 3 November 1946) is a retired road and track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Jürgen Colombo, and Günter Haritz.
In the 1968 Summer Olympics, he had already won silver in the same event.
He was a professional cyclist from 1973 to 1983, whose best results were on the track.
Hempel was also part of the West German team that won the gold medal in the amateur 4 km pursuit world championship in Leicester in 1970.
T. V. Varkey
T. V. Varkey( born 2 April 1938) is an Indian writer, professor and literary activist.
He writes novels and short stories both in Malayalam( his native language) and English.
He lives in Tripunithura, close to Kochi.
Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Dostoevsky, García Márquez and Günter Grass have influenced his writing.
Georgia Spiropoulos
Georgia Spiropoulos( born in Greece, 1965) is a composer, who studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens.
At the same time, she studied jazz piano and worked as an instrumentalist and arranger of Hellenic traditional music of oral transmission for ten years.
Since 1996 she has lived in Paris and studied composition, electro-acoustic and computer music with Philippe Leroux, form Analysis with Michael Levinas, composition with Jacques Charpentier.
She also worked with George Crumb and Günter Kahowez in France, Austria and Greece.

Question: Do Jack Gelber and Günter Wendt share the same nationality?
Answer: yes