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...Blue Skies," 1926. This slightly jazzy, plenty-perky number earned a #1 for Ben Selvin and registered five other hits in 1927; the same year it was the first song performed in the first talkie, Jolson?s "The Jazz Singer." In 1946, the year the Berlin oldies musical "Blue Skies" was released, the title tune returned to the pop charts, twice: #8 with Count Basie and #9 with Benny Goodman. Finally, Willie Nelson made the song a #1 country hit in 1978 - 52 years after it was written...
DIED. NORMAN GRANZ, 83, one-man jazz-promoting machine who founded Verve Records and in 1944 created the touring group Jazz at the Philharmonic, which included such members as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; in Geneva, Switzerland...
Lee’s website, www.fas.harvard.edu/ ~sslee, reflects campaign savvy she gained from her campaign with Paul A. Gusmorino ’02 last year. Floating orange and black graphics outline her ticket’s platform, while jazz music plays in the background...
This weekend, relive the magic with Mainly Jackson. For the first time, witness the skills of the Caribbean Dance Company, TAPS and the Mainly Jazz Dance Company as they create HIStory in a performance of dances to the music of Michael and Janet Jackson as well as the Jackson 5. The spring of 2000 found the Mainly Jazz Dance Company incorporating Michael Jackson songs into their routine, and now the winter of 2001 celebrates the triumphant return of pop’s erstwhile king as well as his superstar sister...
...Mirror” and the Jackson sibling duet, “Scream.” In addition, TAPS will be performing to “Black Cat.” The choreography of the music videos will be recreated and blended with original choreography by Mainly Jazz members Kate E. Wattson ’03, Fabiana Kepler ’00, Nell A. Hanlon ’03, Kristen T. Sueoka ’02 and Melissa E. Miller ’04. And courtesy of C. Coble Armstrong ’02 and Diana L. Limbach...