Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secure appointments with top officials in Saudi Arabia. He also found that military commanders were suddenly too busy to find him a place on a flight into Kuwait. The silent treatment let Tokyo know the allies are in no mood to accommodate Japanese politicians with a yen to horn in on postwar celebrations...
Jazz life on dream street: days of drizzly twilight, long spiky nights of taking a nick off Nirvana with a piano run or a horn solo, walking arm in arm into a rainy dawn with your next sad love affair. Meanwhile, real life on ! Lawrence Street: a two-story frame house in a working-class neighborhood of Washington. The den extension and the enlarged kitchen were not built by the man of the house, Shep Deering, but by his wife, who is handy with a hammer and saw. Her husband of 35 years still works as a mechanic...
...Miles Davis, Wynton and Branford Marsalis and Toots Thielemans play along with her. She also has a brand-new album that is hovering near the top of the Billboard jazz chart. You Won't Forget Me is the title. It may also be read as an unconditional guarantee: Shirley Horn is indelible...
...been written that Shirley Horn is back on the scene," Horn reflects. "Well, I haven't been anywhere. And I've been busy." All that busyness hasn't got her the kind of wide attention she deserves, until this moment. She's had a career for some 40 of her 55 years, but recognition, while often fervid, has been . . . well, say, finely focused. Sales on three of her albums in the early '80s were so slender that a persistent record company still bills her for production costs. If You Won't Forget Me keeps on sailing, she may actually...
...SHIRLEY HORN: YOU WON'T FORGET ME (Verve). Her voice is sultry, voluptuous, plaintive; her piano work both driving and delicate. Combine them with brilliant backing by the likes of Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis (separate tracks, please), and you get one of the most exciting performances by a jazz singer since the heyday of the late Sarah Vaughan...