Word: hinton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fullest measure of Marsalis' musicianship comes from other musicians -- particularly the veteran jazzmen he so admires. Trumpeter Doc Cheatham, 85, calls Marsalis "one of the greatest young trumpet players around. He's at the top level on his horn and improving every day." Bass player Milt Hinton, 80, says Marsalis "stacks up miles ahead of" such past greats as Armstrong and Henry ("Red") Allen in mastery of the instrument. "But he doesn't yet have as much creativity blues-wise and dirt- and funk-wise as they had because he hasn't had to live it." Marsalis' main limitation...
...estimated $400 million U.S. debt. Murdoch's News Corp., reportedly $6.5 billion in debt, will soon begin experimenting with the venerable but faltering TV Guide, adjusting the magazine's iconic size and format in an effort to become more accessible and compete with proliferating local cable guides. Leslie Hinton, president of Murdoch Magazines, rejects speculation that foreign investors want out of the U.S. altogether. "Things go up and down," he says. "It would be pretty shortsighted of us to abandon the market right...
...discovered a new genre: working-class romanticism. First came Elvis, with its nostalgic retelling of the King's early rise from blue-collar boredom to Top 40 stardom. Now Francis Coppola has turned his 1983 movie about Oklahoma teenagers (based on the S.E. $ Hinton novel) into a lyrical, lovingly crafted TV series. Class conflict is the theme: the three Curtis brothers, scraping along together after the death of their parents, are part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called the Socs (that's So-shes). The show pushes...