Tag: jazz
member name: Con Chapman
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December 17, 2006 06:27 PM EST --
NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP, Illinois. In this quiet suburb of Chicago, the competition between the two local high schools can be brutal, even though most mothers won't allow their kids to play contact sports. . . .
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February 26, 2009 09:30 PM EST --
In the early years of the twentieth century, three men were born who would give life to the violin as a voice in the chorus of jazz; Joe Venuti (1903), Stephane Grappelli (1908), and Hezekiah Leroy . . .
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August 23, 2006 01:34 PM EDT --
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Charlie Parker, by consensus the greatest saxophone player ever, was a man of enormous appetites. "One time I saw him eat three jazz critics in a single sitting," . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:11 AM EST --
As a condition to an appearance at a London shopping mall, Mariah Carey's list of required items included 20 white kittens, 100 white doves, pink butterfly confetti and a wand to wave. Wonderwall, . . .
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January 20, 2009 08:46 PM EST --
It has been two decades since Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson died at the age of seventy, and his current obscurity is largely attributable to his versatility; his entry in the All Music Guide to Jazz . . .
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February 02, 2009 03:50 PM EST --
John Haley "Zoot" Sims (1925-85) was a capillary that flowed out of the Lester Young vein of the tenor saxophone, a product, like Young, of a musical family who learned his . . .
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February 07, 2009 12:21 PM EST --
Scott Fitzgerald famously asserted that "There are no second acts in American lives." Fitzgerald never met Frank Morgan.
Fitzgerald and Morgan: Apparently, they never . . .
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March 18, 2009 08:41 PM EDT --
Jazz cares for its children; the "Young Lions" feature is a hardy perennial of those who write about the art, since new talents on the scene are, by their nature, news. Jazz does . . .
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March 21, 2009 11:05 AM EDT --
During the first half of the 1950's three hot jazz trumpeters with widely different styles died in their prime, leaving the field to cool jazz practitioners such as Chet Baker and Miles, and leaving . . .
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May 25, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
It is hard to believe now, but seventy years ago the functional equivalent of the superstars of rock guitar were--clarinet players. Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Woody Herman were the Hendrix, Clapton . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:23 AM EDT --
Don Byas, the tenor who forms the bridge that links the swing and bebop eras, used to say "I don't play the saxophone--I play the sex ophone.
You can understand his transliteration . . .
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August 26, 2009 08:56 PM EDT --
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lester Young in Woodville, Mississippi. When he died six months short of a half century in 1959, he was recognized among his peers as . . .
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September 20, 2009 08:13 PM EDT --
HONOLULU, Hawaii. On the surface, there couldn’t be two more improbable musical bedfellows than the U.S. Navy Band and John Coltrane, the fiery tenor saxophonist who changed the course of . . .
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November 06, 2009 02:12 PM EST --
In some respects, the world of jazz resembles the Elizabethan stage. There are the bare, unadorned sets on which the two art forms are displayed; there is the fact that in both cases, little . . .
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May 17, 2009 08:54 PM EDT --
Jazz piano has had, over the course of its history, enough royalty to stock a coronation: Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington; William "Count" Basie; and Nathaniel Adams "King" . . .
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October 19, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
As science--physical or social--marches on, elementary substances once thought to be an intrinsic part of our world change form, fade away, or simply disappear. Take phlogiston, for example, . . .
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January 22, 2009 09:21 PM EST --
Accounts of the life of Lucky Thompson frequently begin with the observation that no man was ever christened with a more inappropriate name. He often played in the shadow of one of the towering . . .
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August 05, 2008 12:33 PM EDT --
The Fifties, the decade that historians tell us separates the Forties from the Sixties, get a bad rap.
"You don't like the Fifties? Whadda you, some kinda hippie or sumpin'?" . . .
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