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...senior class goes back and forth," says Harvey Goodman, manager of the Bow and Arrow. "Although there is a lot of competition, we all find our own little place...
...equipped with three dart boards and a mini-basketball game, is popular among Harvard students and Cambridge locals. Manager Goodman says while Harvard graduate and undergraduate students make up a substantial portion of their business, more than 50 percent of the business is based elsewhere...
...Goodman acknowledges that the Grille is drawing Bow patrons, but denies the competition is hurting...
...idol celebrity, money, movie-star wives, near veneration for his instrumental virtuosity. Why did he suddenly walk away from it all? In 1954, after two high-flying decades at the head of ensembles as popular as -- and often more innovative than -- Glenn Miller's, Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's, after a succession of hits (Begin the Beguine, Frenesi) that sold millions of records around the world, Shaw, then 44, packed up his clarinet and quit the music business...
Most intriguingly, the album shows Shaw crossing the shadow line that divided swing from bop and the other modernist idioms that took over after 1950. In the hands of most other players, including Shaw's great rival Goodman, the clarinet did not make this transition -- at least not without sacrificing its warmth and lyricism -- which is why it soon was eclipsed by the saxophone as a primary jazz voice. But here Shaw effortlessly absorbs some of bop's angular chromaticism, and his out-of-rhythm codas, all fluttery murmurings or boiling surges of notes, seem to anticipate the free-form...