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...It’s Dangerous Mainly Jazz Presents Mainly Jackson This weekend the blood hits the dance floor as the Mainly Jazz Dance Company tackles the choreography of the world’s most electrifying pop siblings, the Jacksons. After all, the music of the Jacksons wasn’t made for the ears alone. It was made to cause the head to nod, the fingers to snap and the feet to moonwalk. Songs like “Smooth Criminal” have beats so edgy they make your blood bounce and your body shake. Michael Jackson in particular...
Verve Presents: The Very Best of Christmas Jazz Christmas purists, look away now. For most, the holiday season brings to mind images of white snow outside, green trees inside and Yuletide carols being sung by a choir around a battered upright piano. For the majority, carols sung by the Vienna Boys Choir are just peachy, Bing Crosby pushes the envelope, and jazz should stay where it belongs—at the Village Vanguard. For the dissenting minority, holiday songs have long been beaten into unholy submission by endless bland repetition, and jazz giants provide a perfect remedy by taking tradition...
...White Christmas” is absent, but otherwise, there’s little wrong with the set. Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé and John Coltrane, among others, round out a polished, balanced presentation. Christmas music (or movies) make awful presents, but if stumped when buying for a jazz affeccionado, this ain?...
This kind of humor doesn’t even seem self-conscious or nervous when Fox says it because he is genuinely relaxed. He is a jazz pianist at the helm of the Danny Fox Quartet (Quintet or Trio, depending on the night) that plays local shows, including appearances at Club Passim, Loeb House receptions, Cabot housemaster birthday parties and other assorted events. So a foray into the jazz music world is a definite possibility if the whole joining the circus thing doesn’t work out. Instead of tickling the ivories professionally, however, Fox could also see himself...
...approaches a career in jazz with trepidation, it is mainly because he already knows how much fun working his way up the ranks while playing at various incarnations of Ida and Irving’s 50th Anniversary Party will be. Last year Danny got a gig through a friend to play at some convention having to do with malpractice. “I don’t know if they were for or against,” he says, but the conventioneers did commission three songs entitled Malpractice, Risk Management, and Loss Control...