Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FOR ELLINGTON (East-West). Part hommage, part reinvention, this is a ravishing tribute by one of the premier jazz groups to one of America's greatest composers. The M.J.Q. pays the Duke the ultimate honor: they don't just respect him, they make him swing...
...both coasts got unexpected jolts last week when Massachusetts' Governor Michael Dukakis and California's George Deukmejian walked away from probable re-election victories in 1990, announcing their decisions within two days of each other. Their withdrawals set off stampedes among politicians in both states eager to, uh, duke it out to replace them...
...MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FOR ELLINGTON (East-West). Part hommage, part reinvention, this is a ravishing tribute by one of the premier jazz groups to one of America's greatest composers. The M.J.Q. pays the Duke the ultimate honor: it doesn't just respect him, it makes him swing...
...wouldn't be a pretty sight if Harvard had to play schools like Duke, North Carolina, and Arizona week in and week...
...season's musical hopes now rest almost entirely on material from the past: a Jerome Robbins retrospective; a blues-and-dance collage with no new songs, Black and Blue, from the creators of Tango Argentino; and a Duke Ellington score, Queenie Pie, left unfinished at his death in 1974, that has been touted for Broadway for three seasons. Says Rocco Landesman, a producer who succeeded with Big River and Into the Woods: "With a musical there are 40 ways for things to go wrong and only one for them to go right, which is for everything to come together...