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...music," says Fritz Thom, whose Vienna Jazz Festival (June 23-July 13) first took root when pianist Keith Jarrett played the Staatsoper in 1991. "We're an urban festival, and we need a broad spectrum, from mainstream to avant garde," says Thom, whose offerings this year include pianist Chick Corea and New Orleans legend Dr. John...
...creative, engaging performer is better. To call the vocalist a singularly talented virtuoso still cannot completely capture the music that swirls once he takes the stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could not hope to sum up the anticipation or the result that was his performance at Sanders Theater...
...thawed ova have been tricky to fertilize because their outer membrane gets too hard. But a new technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection makes frozen ova fully fertilizable, and so now Guy Land can have its ovum banks. As for the incubation problem, a few years ago feminist writer Gena Corea offered the seemingly paranoid suggestion that men might eventually keep just a few women around in "reproductive brothels," gestating on demand. A guy will pick an ovum for attractive qualities like smart, tall and allergy-free, then have it inserted into some faceless surrogate mother employed as a reproductive slave...
...Burton, who is also executive vice president of Boston's Berklee College of Music, began his performance with a 10-minute improvisation to a Chick Corea composition honoring the be-bop style of 1950s pianist Bud Powell. Burton was accompanied by a Yamaha piano recording of Makuto Ozone, a Berklee graduate and frequent collaborator of Burton's now living in Japan...
...After the performance Burton said that concerts with Corea, including a gig at the Globe Jazz Festival on the Esplanade June 20, as well as a European summer tour are in store for the near future...