Word: allene
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...admires. Trumpeter Doc Cheatham, 85, calls Marsalis "one of the greatest young trumpet players around. He's at the top level on his horn and improving every day." Bass player Milt Hinton, 80, says Marsalis "stacks up miles ahead of" such past greats as Armstrong and Henry ("Red") Allen in mastery of the instrument. "But he doesn't yet have as much creativity blues-wise and dirt- and funk-wise as they had because he hasn't had to live it." Marsalis' main limitation -- one he shares with the entire youth brigade -- is the lack so far of a truly...
Sancton's jazz interest has given him an insider's edge as a journalist. Last year he was able to trade notes with the subject of a profile he was working on, film director (and fellow clarinetist) Woody Allen. Several months ago, Tom began doing research for a piece on Marsalis. "But the more I looked at today's jazz scene," he says, "the more I realized that there was a bigger story there: Wynton's success was the springboard for a jazz renaissance in which a whole new generation of talented young players was taking the music...
...months of economic contraction. "We don't believe we're in a recession right now," White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said two weeks ago. But many economists contend that the slump actually began last summer. "The economy was headed toward a recession before Iraq invaded Kuwait," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the consulting firm Boston Company Economic Advisors. "The invasion was just the nail in the coffin." Richard Hoey, chief U.S. economist for the British investment firm Barclays de Zoete Wedd, concurs: "Only the severity of the recession is uncertain...
...very much of a political holiday in many ways. It's a political tool to maintain a gay presence on campus," BGLSA Co-Chair Sheila C. Allen '93 said...
Tyler-White's resignation met with praise from many angry members of the Dartmouth student community. "I am very pleased [by the resignation,]" said Allen Drexler, co-chair of the Dartmouth Student Assembly. "This is evidence that the organization is crumbling from within...