Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another fund raising event that took place this weekend, Jazz for Life raised $4000 for Oxfam. America a Boston based relief agency. The concert last Friday night featured both student and local talent and presented a variety of musical styles, ranging form the Din and Tonies to blind jazz pianist and street musician Jerry Mack...
Back from a lengthy concert tour, Claude meets his agent Norman Robbins (Albert Brooks) and listens to some gibberish about a private detective's report on his wife. Confused about the detective. Claude denies any jealous tendencies. His manservant, Giuseppe (Richard Libertini), misunderstood Claude's request "Keep an eye on her" for the Italian equivalent of "Get a private eye to follow her." With the requisite veneer of trust, Claude poo-poos the report and falls back into the arms of Daniella...
Divided into two parts, the film first focuses on the eccentricity of the characters who have come to pay tribute to the fallen star. Vain opera celebrities upstage one another while rehearsing for Tatua's memorial concert, a foppish conductor reveals his obsession with the dead soprano while an English lord is cuckolded by a member of the ship's crew. The film moves without direction, as scene after scene of extravagant dinners and meaningless tete-a-tetes follow one another and avoids any serious character or plot development. Instead it concentrates upon painting a picture of the rich...
...range of her creations is already greater than her physical presence can encompass. She speaks fondly and volubly of her parents' inspiration. Her mother, who trained to be a concert pianist, insisted on lessons in several instruments, musical theory, plus extras like baton twirling (there is a fine baton riff in The Bix Pieces). Her father owned drive-in movie theaters around Los Angeles, which provided Tharp with an open-air classroom in popular culture. But she also remembers the satisfaction of watching him building and repairing his property, "brick and mortar, step by step." That is how Twyla...
...molding them and memorably melding all these elements has got D'Rivera three solid Columbia albums, of which the most recent, Live at Keystone Korner, is selling nicely, thanks. He has also become a musician whose talents are much in demand for session work, as well as a concert performer whose travels, starting last month at Mikell's in New York City, are keeping him hopping from Manhattan to Helsinki to Fort Worth. Home for a jazz musician, it is worth remembering, is the place where music flourishes, which is not always the same location...