EditorialCarole Sloane, with Peter Bernstein on guitar and Ray Drummond on bass, at a concert of Duke Ellington’s music in New York on July 18, 2006. (Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated photo provided by James Lerager shows Cecile Pineda, who in midlife turned from a career in theater to one as a writer whose work often examined issues of colonialism and identity. (James Lerager via The New York Times)