Word: bandness
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Everett invited Bloom to Harvard because he wanted the members of the Jazz Bands to think more about movement. He explains that jazz had its origins in dance during the big band era, and that Bloom combines traditional features of jazz, like improvisation, with movement...
Everett started the Harvard Jazz Band program in 1971, a time when fusion jazz was favored over the traditional jazz of the 1930s. He was surprised that Harvard did not have an organized jazz band, and believed that jazz had a great social, economic, as well as music influence on American culture. He emphasized that improvisation is what unites all of jazz and that it is a “point of personality or vocabulary...
...They’re creating a language,” says Monday Jazz Band alto saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08 after the demonstration, voicing this reoccurring metaphor for improvisation. “I hear music, in general as a language. I can listen to sounds of the world and hear it. Composition is defined as sounds arranged by people, but everywhere sounds are arranged...
...rooms seems to back that claim. Hand-wrought copper tables from Bosnia stand a comfortable distance apart in the dining room, where musicians of similar provenance perform from 10 p.m. on each Saturday and every other Thursday. (We unfortunately stopped by on a band-less night, although the music piped in over the sound system made digestion easy enough...
...Iraq. The delegates from Fallujah had insisted they could not hand over Zarqawi because he was not, in fact, present in the city. Whether or not this claim was true at the time, if the dust settles on a city destroyed in order to weed out Zarqawi and his band of foreign fighters and they are nowhere to be found, Iraqis may be inclined to agree with acting President Ghazi al-Yawer's warning that launching a full-scale invasion of Fallujah because of Zarqawi and his band would be like shooting a horse in order to kill...