Word: birdland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gray dresses of the women and the sequin-covered glitz of the two chorus girls, the costumes set the tone of the decade and the club music scene. The sets included black and white backdrops of New York City streets and the interior of many of the clubs including Birdland and The Royal Roost. There was constant changing of props from saxophones to trumpets, which the dancers actually carried throughout some of the sequences. There was a high degree of interaction between the dancers and the props: The dancers rolled over, sat on, and kicked off of numerous chairs, stools...
...Interesting," said Blakey, tapping his toes. "But a total rip-off. That part in the beginning -- it's from A Night in Birdland, Vol. 1, by my own quintet. And then it flows into excerpts from Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island...
...resident of Birdland--Oriole territory, as translated for our Royal neighbors here at Harvard--I'd like to clear up a few things about the Ripken story that might have escaped Mr. Wissman's attention...
...helped Morgan get some of the attention he dodged for so long. Last week he was a guest on Jane Pauley's first prime- time special, about people who have dramatically changed their lives. This week he plays at Kimball's in San Francisco, next week at Birdland in New York City...