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...great live performer, both passionate and incisive, this alto saxophone player has rarely come across as forcefully as he should in the studio. His recent albums on Blue Note have been critically acclaimed, but to this listener often sounded dry and analytic. Not this time. Captured with a MiniDisk recorder plunked on a table at an unnamed New York City nightclub, this is an unusually live "live" album. Playing tunes by Ellington, Monk and Parker as well as an original, Osby and his quartet push and probe but are also unafraid to play pretty. So why aren't all albums...
Arturro Tappin, alto saxophone player, joined the group for a few numbers toward the end of the show. Tappin is best known for his unique style, as he combines roots reggae and jazz sounds in his playing. Tappin has been compared to Kenny G in the past, but either his playing has matured since then or whoever made that comment was hard of hearing. While Tappin has mastered the smooth, soft sound that put Kenny G on the tops of all the "Easy Listening" charts--evident when he joined the Panazz Players to do their rendition of an old Roberta...
...industry in its formative years: to name his computer after a fruit; to package it in a molded plastic case; to hire world-class p.r. and marketing firms; and, most incredibly, to drop everything to build the industry-incompatible but user-friendly Macintosh after visiting Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and seeing its icons, its windows, its mouse. Jobs made us choose sides...
...Mike D'Alto '02 says he spent $270 buying books Afro-American Studies 10, "Introduction to Afro-American Studies," a purchase he says he now regrets...
...have to buy all the books for every class, but I did," D'Alto says. "I'm a freshman, I'm an idiot. I spent a lot of money...