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...from the College. Jones also persuaded AOL Time Warner to endow the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music chair in Harvard’s African and African American studies department. Ingrid Monson, the professor of the popular Core course Literature and Arts B-82, Sayin’ Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue, currently occupies the seat...
...afternoon last week she sat doing her homework at a desk at Pathways, where her mother, Vikki, works at the front desk. Now 11, Maddison explained how she'd just auditioned at a big dance school. It had been nerve-racking, she said, having to perform ballet and a jazz routine in front of the examiners and other kids; she'd even had to sing Happy Birthday. She didn't make it into the school, but the point for her was that she'd tried, and driving home afterward Vikki choked up when Maddison told her, "You know...
...City Hall since 1848; others (Palazzo Rosso and Palazzo Bianco) have been turned into museums. When this city of 700,000 was picked?along with Lille, France?to be European Capital of Culture for 2004, the Italian government poured in $40 million for more than 100 special events from jazz concerts to history classes. And Via Garibaldi, which housed the noble families of what was once one of Europe's richest cities, has undergone a multimillion-euro face-lift that would make Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi proud. Fa?ades have been scrubbed and frescoes restored to their original splendor, quaint courtyards...
...City Hall since 1848; others (Palazzo Rosso and Palazzo Bianco) have been turned into museums. When this city of 700,000 was picked - along with Lille, France - to be European Capital of Culture for 2004, the Italian government poured in $40 million for more than 100 special events from jazz concerts to history classes. And Via Garibaldi, which housed the noble families of what was once one of Europe's richest cities, has undergone a multi-million-euro face-lift that would make Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi proud. Façades have been scrubbed and frescoes restored to their original...
...make E and A, Eyedea and Abilities sought to break free of the hierarchical emcee-DJ paradigm by emphasizing teamwork inspired less by Timbaland and Missy than Miles and Coltrane. “We’ve definitely drawn an element of the whole free jazz kind of approach—improvisation, duets, back and forth soloing,” Eyedea says. He likes to refer to Abilities not merely as a turntablist but “lead guitar player.” On the new record, “there’s stuff that has never been done...