Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. The notes almost seem to form words. The four-minute selection is from Black, Brown and Beige, a three-hour work exploring the history of blacks in America. "Our aim as a dance orchestra," Ellington once wrote, "is not so much to reproduce 'hot' or 'jazz' music, as to describe emotions, moods and activities, which have a wide range...
...fans whose CD players can't accommodate two-dozen discs at a time, there's the satisfyingly concise single CD The Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. Other tributes range from last week's posthumous Pulitzer citation to the more than 400 commemorative events scheduled by Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, which is headed by trumpeter and Ellington enthusiast Wynton Marsalis...
Most of what passes for pop swing these days is content simply to give off heat. Retro acts like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies create swing that owes more to rock than jazz; it's propelled by attitude, sometimes fueled by electric guitars and focused more on excitement than enlightenment. Much of today's pop swing is also burdened by irony--many acts seem to be sending the genre up even as they get down...
...TELEVISION Indians at Red Sox, WLVI, 6 p.m. Braves at Marlins, TBS, 7 p.m. M. Ducks at Red Wings, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Raptors at Magic, TNT, 8 p.m. Oilers at Stars, ESPN2, 8:30 p.m. Celtics at Bulls, WABU, 8:30 p.m. Trailblazers at Jazz...
...part harmony group, and places an ad in the paper. After a few initial flops, the six-man Comedian Harmonists update their repertoire, adding jazzy syncopation and some naughty lyrics. Their innovations are hilariously documented in one great scene, where they do an improv imitation of a purely instrumental jazz band. They are soon discovered, and become, in effect, The Beatles of Berlin...