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Saxophonist Adderley once said that Davis "is not a good trumpet player but a great soloist," a seemingly gnomic statement that nails Davis precisely. Unable to execute the speedy, flowing lines of be-bop, he instead found a voice whose terse eloquence resided not only in his exquisite, lapidary phrases but in the silent spaces between them as well. On Blue in Green, the album's third cut, there are passages of such poised stillness that they constitute a sort of aural photograph, a moment perfectly preserved...
...today, he has his headquarters in a complex around a former monastery near the village of Vlodrop, Holland, and presides over a network of schools and universities, ayurvedic health products and "cosmic software." Worldwide, his 4 million devotees see and hear the familiar bearded figure uttering gnomic wisdom on his 24-hour TV channel (e.g., "The goddess of learning lives in your head" and "If you don't believe me, get an operation and check...
...distinguished one. Jerome Kern's 1985 centenary cued half a dozen glittery restorations. In London an ambitious series called Discover the Lost Musicals has flourished since 1988. The same year, Daykin produced concert versions of two Gershwin musicals, as well as an all-star tribute that featured a gnomic rendition of Soon by Bob Dylan. ("Did he hit even one right note?" Daykin asks today.) When she came to City Center in 1992, she brought the concert-revival idea with...
Occasional verse for such magazines as the Atlantic and the New Yorker has earned Adair in recent years a coterie of fans (other poets notable among them). One dazzled critic (Eric Ormsby) has called her "the best American poet since Wallace Stevens." Adair is less gnomic than Stevens, more passionately personal; even on dark themes, her writing, like his, has the elegant fizz of brut champagne...
...runs into the thousands. Occasional verse for such magazines as the Atlantic and the New Yorker has earned Adair in recent years a coterie of fans (other poets notable among them). One dazzled critic (Eric Ormsby) has called her "the best American poet since Wallace Stevens." "Adair is less gnomic than Stevens," says TIME's John Elson, "more passionately personal; even on dark themes, her writing, like his, has the elegant fizz of brut champagne." One terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony...