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With a guaranteed chance to perform before their fellow-undergraduates tonight, and the hope of winning a gig at a popular Cambridge club, campus musicians are gearing up for this evening's Battle of the Bands...
Three judges will select the best of the seven undergraduate bands after each plays a 15 minute set. The winner gets a paid gig at T.T. the Bear's club in Central Square on January...
...CAMERA. The "self-consciousness of everyone concerned" dragged out the case, in the view of Vincent Blasi, a Columbia University law professor and courtroom-cameras advocate. Uelmen agrees that the "entertainment medium" took command: "We had witnesses who treated their testimony like a gig. We had witnesses who were afraid to testify, who were afraid of what it would do to their reputations." But, adds Uelmen, "evidence was uncovered because of television coverage. All those photos of O.J. wearing gloves at football games, for example, came from volunteers.'' Of his own experience with TV trials, Midwest lawyer Stephen Jones, counsel...
...Smith was too self-critical to seem extraordinary. While her assistants located her books and glasses, she mocked how unprofessional the gig was and admonished the audience not to tolerate it. With people seated on the floor in front of her, the set had a folksy feel, like a campfire gathering...
...York, Hank became a protege of Art Tatum's, carrying the great blind pianist's music satchel from gig to gig. Jones developed his own keyboard style, taking some of Tatum's breakneck invention and adding a measure of cool, a distinctive touch of romantic reserve to offset the fire of what came, in time, to be called bebop. Jones was also a sideman for Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; he went to school with the best...