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...sing a song for me right now." The scene was a sidewalk in Paris in 1990. The challenge was issued by the leader of a ragtag touring group called the Lost Wandering Blues & Jazz Band, who was holding an impromptu audition. The wannabe was an American-born teenager named Madeleine Peyroux, who had been busking around Paris. She crooned Jeepers Creepers, snapping her fingers as accompaniment...
...game, in which a player must eat or be eaten by other microbes, is a deliberate homage to Pac-Man. Later, after your amphibious creatures have acquired enough limbs to drag themselves from the ocean, they find one another on land and decide to mate--and a sexy, smooth jazz riff starts playing in the background. Millions of game years after that, you will find their descendants zipping across interstellar space in absurd 1950s-style UFOs...
...handful of widely syndicated newspapers, advertisements included, from any date back as far as the mid 19th century, and the Naxos Music Library is one (perfectly legal) way to listen to some 85,000 songs (not Billboard top 100 stuff, but a good collection of classical and jazz works) all from the comfort of your desk chair. Both are accessible through the e-resources page at lib.harvard.edu. And if you want to feel like a good person, www.thehungersite.com can help: every time you click the button on their page they donate ad revenue to good causes. Just think how much...
...talking about his personal life either. For what it's worth: he's unmarried, was born, raised and lives in Brooklyn, and has two kids.) Cued by the lousy music in the hotel restaurant, he launches into an inspired impression of himself seducing a date to light jazz: "Oh yeah. Oh. Yeah. Let me close these blinds. Is it hot in here? It's gotta be these hot, smooth sounds!" When he learns that I used to play the cello, he becomes an M.C. busting rhymes over a solo cellist: "Break it down, Johann! Rock awwwn! Can the cello have...
...comes with earthen walls, a pool table and plenty of quirks (there's a mannequin's hand poking through the ceiling, for one). Everyone seems to pass through - even the county chief has dropped in for a beer and a game of pool. THE RAVEN With jazz and coffee in the afternoons, and hip-hop and martinis in the evenings, this expat-owned bar, tel: (86-887) 828 9239, is Zhongdian's trendsetter. THE TREEHOUSE Under Tibetan-Hawaiian management, the laid-back Treehouse, tel: (86-887) 823 1296, is an ideal place to sip tea and snack on sunflower seeds...