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...have been snowing outside, but inside the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, a small gathering of the elderly and the youthful were alternatively startled, stunned and awed by the lecture-demonstration on jazz improvisation and movement by acclaimed soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom last Friday afternoon. Accompanied by modern dancer Peentz Dubble, and moderator Tom Everett, Director of Harvard Bands, Bloom presented “An Exploration of Improvisation,” which focused on combining physical movement and improvisation as a jazz musician in the first of Harvard’s Office for the Arts?...
Jane Ira Bloom, a “mover and shaker”—literally—in the use of both electronics and movement in jazz, was awarded soprano sax of the year by the Jazz Journalists Award in 2001, the Charlie Parker Fellowship for Jazz Innovation, and the International Women in Jazz Jazz Masters Award. But her proudest accomplishment is that she is the first musician to be commissioned by NASA’s art program-—and she even has an asteroid named after...
...player. Net-radio stations and traditional broadcasters have been streaming live and archived content for a while. But without the time and software to capture, compress and offload the stream, you're tied to a terminal. RSS software such as iPodder lets you subscribe to, say, a weekly jazz podcast, an MP3 of which is downloaded every seven days and then dumped on your player next time you sync it. Bloggers have been keen, but the appeal is also strong for public radio stations like Boston's WGBH, which posted its first podcast last month. "We're doing...
...annual “Heaven and Hell” Halloween party forced the House to move their piano from a practice room to the dining hall, Alvin E. Hough ’06 and Jonathan C. Bardin ’06 have treated weekend diners to jazz and classical stylings while they...
...DIED. GIBSON KENTE, 72, revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage - often using African gospel and jazz - Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about aids by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...