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Wednesday evening found Kipnis at nearby Mather House for a dinner with students and an informal lecture and recital in the SCR, featuring works by Bach, Handel, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and the Beatles, among others. Everywhere in his performance he displayed both astonishing technical ability and sensitive musical interpretation...
...show opened with the Harvard Jazz Band playing some laid-back blues, followed by an uninspiring arrangement of the Duke Ellington standard "Perdido." Their rousing rendition of Oscar Peterson's "Hallelujah Time" elicited delighted applause from the audience. Excellent solos were performed by Chris Carter, Anton Schwartz, Mark Kaufmann, and Josh Shedroff...
Even CBS Chairman William Paley went along with the deal, thus giving up an enterprise he spent decades building. Paley started the division in 1938, when he bought a small record company for $700,000. He hired Artists Duke Ellington and Bing Crosby, among others, and introduced the first LP record in 1948. CBS took chances on new artists, signing both Bob Dylan and Springsteen when they were unknowns...
...have been in on the secret. The city's enterprising American Music Theater Festival has already revived Gershwin's lost Strike Up the Band, served as the proving ground for Anthony Davis' powerful first opera X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X) and unearthed Queenie Pie, the Duke Ellington "street opera" planned for a Broadway run early next year. Festival Directors Eric Salzman and Marjorie Samoff have become the foremost presenters of new and unusual music theater works in the country...
Since then, Bloom has played the major Jazz Festivals and recorded several albums, including one with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell which won a five-star rating from Downbeat. Critic Nat Hentoff places her in Duke Ellington's "beyond category" category...