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Today, its 560 boys and girls take the standard New York state school curriculum, practice jazz, classical and gospel songs for at least two hours each day while touring 50 weeks out of a year...
...rapper Common neo-soul, acid jazz or Native Tongues? When you can’t categorize a sound, you can’t limit its possibilities—something Common apparently understands and capitalizes upon in Electric Circus. Last year’s amazing albums from The Roots, Talib Kweli and Cody Chesnutt proved the place of electronica and the electric guitar in the music of this new hip-hop movement. But Common’s new album delivers the exclamation point on an already strong declaration. In “New Wave,” Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab...
...other members of the Harvard Din and Tonics, one of the college’s premiere all-male jazz a cappella ensembles, this was just one of many celebrity “encounters” they enjoyed at the shooting of Mona Lisa Smile over winter break. And as performing extras in the film, they were practically celebrities themselves...
Although several of the Din and Tonics have had significant experience with drama on stage and even television, their role required minimal acting ability, according to Levine. “We were supposed to be a dorky jazz a cappella group from Harvard,” he said. “It was no stretch...
...star and a rare singer-songwriter (It's a Good Day, Manana); in 1955 she composed songs for Disney's Lady and the Tramp and 36 years later won a suit for royalties on video sales of the film. A sultry jazz minimalist, Lee prevailed in the first age of rock with tunes that exuded steam (Fever), defiance (I Am Woman) and blithe anhedonia (Is That All There Is?). It's amazing that she could caress a melody even though life kept swatting her: she endured an abusive stepmother, diabetes, angioplasty, a near-fatal fall and four busted marriages. "They...