Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admits that his plans and goals for New York are "looking pretty nebulous." But he's sure of one thing: "the idea is to play music." He has found an apartment in Brooklyn, which he will share with other musicians, but for now no steady gig or salary awaits him-- only a loose agreement with Delfeayo to perform with the band in some upcoming performances...
...snare a steady and satisfying gig after a year or so, Shedroff plans to stick with jazz and say goodbye to law. But he admits that "the thing that would keep me out of Yale is unlikely to happen in a year or two." Still, he'll never know if he doesn...
After that decade lull, she jumped into overdrive. Recently returned from a sold-out debut in Paris, she will gig for a month in California this spring and will play Carnegie Hall for the first time on June 25. But she still understands need: all kinds of need, from longing to desperation, with all the melancholy shadings in between. Maybe that's the secret of her music. Not only the musical dexterity but the heart that's always open and eager to share. "It's just the way I feel about a song," she says. "They call me the slowest...
...older musicians playing at Preservation Hall -- neither, in fact, did his father have any real contact with that world. The closest Wynton came to performing jazz in those years was working with Branford in a funk band called the Creators. Wynton used most of his pay -- $75 a gig -- to buy the small piccolo trumpets he needed to play baroque music...