Moviegoers got a taste in Jim Jarmusch's 2005 film Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray,with a soundtrack featuring Ethiopian jazz leader Mulatu Astatke.

Lawrence V. Westervelt, of rural Columbus, Kansas, died at Freeman Health Systems, Joplin, Mo., Sunday, November 16, 2008 after an illness. He was born May 5, 1921 at rural Hallowell, the son of Cloyd Westervelt and Edith Guy Westervelt. He was a ...