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There is a ludicrous idea currently seeping into the Yard from some malcontents up at 29 Garden St. that must be nipped in the bud. It seems that some first-years living at there feel they should be given preferential treatment in this spring's housing lottery...
...Bud Collins Story...
...introduction to the game of tennis, it's a story Bud Collins would have conniptions over. Not only is Roiter's middle name "Love," but her entire family, has played tennis for years. Roiter and her mother, Martha, have competed in several national mother/daughter tournaments, and older brother Eric currently plays for Williams...
...fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump, and the Afro-Cuban tunes sound drivingly modern. Dizzy is an Eldorado that never runs on empty...
...says, "I wanted to pass along the feeling of standing in Philip Marlowe's office looking out at the neon lights blinking off and on in the night." Haunted Heart's 12 pieces range from new compositions by Haden and pianist Alan Broadbent to reworkings of standards by Parker, Bud Powell and Glenn Miller to -- most surprisingly and, perhaps, most inventively -- three period vocals by Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern and Jo Stafford, copied straight from Haden's 5,000-volume record collection. The songs flow seamlessly out of Quartet West's instrumental excursions, and the effect is closer to magic...