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When they asked Duke Ellington to predict the future of jazz as he foresaw it in the 1984 era of Big Brother he, speaking from the premature and unlamented passing away of smaller-but-still nasty McCarthy era, declared "Nobody's going to worry about whether it's jazz, symphony, boogie-woogie or folk music. The categories will be abolished...
Soft-spoken feminist, shuns the term women's liberation . . . Says she's "sort of old-fashioned," believer in women's obligations within the family . . . With Fellow Economics Professor Clifton Kreps Jr., has raised three children . . . Fancier of classical music and Duke Ellington jazz . . . Episcopalian . . . Politically liberal, but economically fairly moderate . . . Pessimistic about U.S. ability to reduce unemployment to previous levels...
...singing in Bubbling Brown Sugar is also consistently outstanding. Backed by an excellent Duke Ellington-type big band, Ursula Kairson turns in an electric version of "God Bless the Child," while Jay Flash Riley--with the help of some wildly funny ad-libbing--immortalizes an unexpected aspect of religious revivalist meetings. With the exception of the songs specifically composed for Bubbling Brown Sugar, the caliber of music is the highest, and includes many Fats Waller and Duke Ellington standards...
...what the people at Berklee School of Music decided to do tonight. At 8 p.m. in Berklee's Performance Center, the Berklee School will present Berklee's all-star music faculty playing 200 years of jazz. Their big band ensemble will take on Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and others. To get to the performance center hop a Dudley bus to Auditorium. Tickets are $5, $4 and $3. There is a $1.50 reduction for those with student...
...Beverly, along the North Shore, Sandy's Jazz Revival is keeping up its summer reputation as the finest showcase of left-over Duke Ellington and Count Basie stars. This week it's Helen Humes, the Count's vocalist, through Saturday. She just finished a long engagement at the Cookery in New York...