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Russell and Corrine Calloway are young, bright and, like everyone they know, on the way up. He's a successful editor for a good publishing house, and she, somewhat less enthusiastically, is a stockbroker. As the first married of their pack of friends, the Calloways are frequent hosts to a semipermanent, citywide party. Guests are still young enough to remember when going to work with a hangover was fun, and most of them are old enough to have outgrown cocaine, or at least to have resolved to limit serious drugs to weekends and saint's days. But when Jeff, Russell...
Danny Barker knows all about the fundamentals. At 82, the jazz banjoist and guitarist has seen a lot of changes in his hometown since he went north, played with Louis Armstrong and toured with the Cab Calloway orchestra. But the fundamentals don't budge. "New Orleans people are unique," he says, sitting in his shirt-sleeves on the front porch of his white shotgun house. "Somebody goin' to jail? Give him a party. Somebody died? Give him a party. They'd throw a party for a dog's birthday. Here you have a million people raised with a habit...
After nine months in office, Watson has had partial victories (a long- overdue 6% pay raise for the department) and bitter setbacks (the city council rejected a group of her nominees for assistant chiefs -- two white males and a Hispanic woman). Alfred Calloway, a black councilman who opposed Watson's choices, stresses that little of the opposition was directed at her personally. "There's still an old Southern gentleman sort of thing here," he says. "They might be giving her more trouble if she weren't pregnant...
...suite on his 1989 Majesty of the Blues album, he asked White to come up and record with him, along with other members of White's Original Liberty Jazz Band: trombonist Freddie Lonzo, 40, trumpeter Teddy Riley, 66, and banjoist Danny Barker, 81, a veteran of the famous Cab Calloway orchestra. (Marsalis as a little boy had actually known Barker and played very briefly in a children's marching band organized by the banjoist...
...going for quality, a shift that is nowhere clearer than in the wine industry. While consumption grew only slightly, sales jumped from $6.2 billion in 1980 to $8.2 billion last year. "Wine has history, romance and a lot of glandular stuff," says Terrance Clancy, president of Napa Valley's Calloway Vineyards. "Eighty-three means something different than '82. I haven't heard of many people going to gin- tasting courses...