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...tribute, "celebrating [the] legacy of Cannonball Adderly, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane," as this first tune was long associated with the late trumpeter Davis. The front line of elder Lew Soloff on trumpet, younger Javon Jackson on tenor saxophone and Williams' contemporary and dynamo Bobby Watson on alto sax blasted out the tunes' head. The roles were set from then: Soloff showing incredible range in high notes mixed with David-like licks in the middle range, Watson with veritable sheets of sound wailing, and Jackson with a mature and noticeably improved opening solo. Running alongside, bassist Richard Reid was consistent...
...threw a [huge] party over Christmas break last year at a restaurant in Pao Alto," O'Brien says. "He invited his senior class from high school, people he'd worked with over the summer, Harvard friends living in Caloifornia.he hired two bands. It was a great party, and it cluminated with Jon running around in his boxers, drunk, singing live songs..like 'You're Lost That Lovin' Feelin..to all his former girlfriends in high school...
...formed from the mind of Jobs. Any good Mac historian will trace the machine's ancestry to Vannevar Bush (a White House science adviser who was dreaming about electronic desktops in 1945), Douglas Engelbart (who invented windows and the mouse) and Alan Kay's team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California (which put the ideas to work in a language called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited to see the Alto, walked into a Xerox demo room...
This is Coleman--perhaps the greatest plastic alto saxophonist of all times--at his anguished, melodic best. Most of the tracks on this set feature Don Cherry on pocket-trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums--musicians who all were serious innovators in their own rights. It was this quartet that established what came to be known as free jazz, and it was these recordings that did the establishing...
...Harvard honorees are Ritu Sonia Batra '93 of Los Angeles; Matthew B. Boyle '93 of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Alexander M. Johnston '93 of Amherst, Mass.; Sarah L. Levine '93 of Brookline, Mass.; Ayelet K. Margalioth '93 of Montreal, Canada; and Andre C. Namphy '93 of Palo Alto, Calif...