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...late 1970s, white-collar Asians in the region's booming economies sought out new sounds to grace their suddenly affordable turntables and cassette players. Older listeners, bored with rock, began to trade up to West Coast jazz fusion - a connoisseur's form that mingled jazz, pop, R&B and funk, setting store above all on sheen and virtuosity. Although derided by jazz traditionalists, the genre had an exotic sophistication to middle-class Asian ears - and Jarreau was its house vocalist, his marvel of a voice swooping out of the speakers in Hong Kong penthouses and Tokyo wine bars...
...recording Look to the Rainbow (1977) and its studio follow-up All Fly Home (1978) - reveal them to be masterpieces of risk-taking and exuberance, eluding easy categorization. That's fitting for a man who remains the only performer to win Grammy Awards in three different styles: pop, R&B and jazz. "He works the cracks between all of those genres," says San Francisco Chronicle pop-music critic Joel Selvin. But most critics agree that Jarreau's roots, ultimately, lie in jazz. "What makes him unique is the jazz current - with its inherent sense of swing and improvisational magic - that...
...chasing the high notes, but the miles on Wilson's voice make his eternal innocence seem that much sweeter. The songs are slight ruminations on '60s L.A., some barely memorable, but as delivery devices for an optimistic soul, they do just fine. B...
...explosive color and intensity of nudes by Irish Post-Impressionist Roderic O'Connor, a close friend of Gauguin's, contrast strikingly with the simplified shapes and subtle lighting in William Scott's kitchen-implement still lifes. The collection also features powerful observations of Irish rural life by Jack B. Yeats, brother of the poet, haunting society portraits by John Lavery and a specially commissioned Dublin triptych by Martin Mooney. For definitive insight into the works, a tour with Olive Knox, a curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, can be arranged...
...member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and co-managing partner of the large Boston law firm WilmerHale; Mark H. Moore, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School; government department chair Nancy L. Rosenblum; Matthew L. Sundquist '09, president of the Undergraduate Council; and Harvard Law School professor David B. Wilkins...