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...jazz age thug carefully steps into a huge hollow cake; his job is to pop out later and gun down a big gangster. A henchman hands the thug a machine gun, then warns him, "And don't mess up the cake. I promised to bring back a piece for my kids...
Requiem for American Jazz...
Coming upon your article "Jazzed About Ms. Jones," reviewing the debut album of singer Norah Jones on the Blue Note label [MUSIC, March 18], I assumed I'd be reading about jazz. But no, the story revealed the anemic jazz industry's crossover bid to dress up a pop singer as a jazz artist. Jazz still resonates with life in places like Latin America and Northern Europe, but in America it has become irrelevant and moribund. LEE M. COHEN Belmont Heights, Calif...
DIED. DUDLEY MOORE, 66, 5-ft. 2-in. British actor whose droopy-eyed, self-effacing manner made him an unlikely Hollywood heartthrob; of pneumonia, stemming from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disease; in Plainfield, N.J. A talented classical and jazz pianist, Moore was best known for his roles in the 1979 movie 10 (which he nabbed after meeting director Blake Edwards in a therapy group) and the 1981 film Arthur, in which he played a sweet, wealthy drunk. Spurred to perform by a sense of inferiority stemming in part from a clubfoot, the working-class Moore said...
...you’d seen Carl Cox at Avalon on March 9 of this year, you would be forgiven for agreeing with this assessment. Not that he was a poor DJ—in fact, his driving fusion of techno, deep house and jazz influences was both sophisticated and enticing. But the crowd, for the most part, wasn’t with him and seeing people grinding to that type of music is just not right...