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...some flashy gigs - like a Jazz at the Philharmonic session with Nat Cole on piano and Illinois Jacquet on sax - but spent more time on electronic experimentation. He built a new guitar out of Epiphone parts and called it the Log. He used it in his recordings for the next decade. After assembling a recording studio in his garage (total cost: $415), he produced such performers as Gene Austin, the Andrews Sisters and his pal and patron Bing Crosby. His work with White, Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, as well as some Les Paul Trio sides, can be found...
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS LUC JACQUET Last year's top movie love story? Not Brangelina, nor Naomi Watts and her cybergorilla, but this true fable of domestic devotion among Antarctica's emperor penguins. For months, while the mother forages for food, the father struggles to keep the egg safe in a -80°F chill. This French documentary, for which its heroic makers deserve the Légion d'Honneur and cups of steaming cocoa, became a $77 million sleeper hit in North America. Now that it's winter, watch the film again on DVD, and be warmed...
Penguins, as we all know, are the most readily anthropomorphized of all birds. They totter about upright, with their flipper arms and their tuxedo markings. We also learn from Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins that they are, like an ever increasing number of humans, serially monogamous. Every year emperor penguins meet, mate and remain faithfully bound--at least until their single offspring is walking and squawking...
Frankly, all that plodding about gets a little, well, plodding. On the other hand, there's something noble about the birds' dutifulness, about the mothers' response to a chick's death and about director Jacquet's refusal to impose human emotions on his subjects. Above all, the harsh blue-and-white beauty of this frozen world and the black-and-white birds assiduously heeding their ancient instincts--which bring life to a place where, in all logic, it should not exist--are very moving. It's a gentle film about somewhat alien beings, who entertain us by creating instead...
DIED. ILLINOIS JACQUET, 81, innovative tenor saxophonist and bandleader; of a heart attack; in New York City. At 19, playing with Lionel Hampton's band, he bleated out an 80-sec. solo on Flying Home that became legendary. He was a master of the style known as screeching and was equally adept at slow ballads. In addition to playing with most of the jazz giants of his era, he was invited by President Bill Clinton to perform a duet on the White House lawn at his first Inauguration...