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...That’s Kevin Shee ’10, a self-proclaimed “Ballerino,” hailing from Sacramento, California. A former tap and jazz dancer, he began taking classes at age five and moved on to perform professionally with the Bay Area Peninsula Ballet Theatre when...
There was a hippie vibe to the event, perhaps because we were outdoors, or because there was a guy playing jazz on an accordion, or because of the misspellings on the printed menu, or because the guests recited impromptu poetry, or because the Ghetto Gourmet's logo of a skull with chef's hat hung on a sheet, or maybe it was just because our host kept taking long hits off a joint...
...modest pro's pro, with a range that extends from earnest ballads to really earnest ballads. This four-disc set of 43 original tracks, all of which Gill wrote or co-wrote, is downright Garthian in its ambition--and it changes everything. Each disc covers different musical terrain--bluegrass, jazz, Southern rock, country--has well-cast guests (Bonnie Raitt shines) and reveals Gill as an astonishingly dexterous guitar player and singer. A few songs miss, but more than enough hit to make this collection, priced with characteristic humility at $29.95, one of the best of the year...
...Harris’ musical experiments aren’t always unqualified successes, he can be forgiven for his overextension; the pressure to innovate surely weighs heavily on his shoulders. No era of jazz ever includes more than a few great vibraphonists, and now, with musicians like Steve Nelson doing their best playing as sidemen, and with greats like Bobby Hutcherson decades past their most important work, Harris has taken up the mantle of jazz’s highest-profile practitioner of the instrument and all of the expectation that comes with...
Some of the posters are reminders of the august figures that the Institute has hosted. Particularly memorable are Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka’s many lectures at Harvard (including a series with fellow Nobel laureate Toni Morrison) and a discussion on jazz and American culture featuring documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Institute Director and Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates...