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...Jazz musician Danny Fox seemed nervous, calling himself “that guy in section whose voice cracks,” but got a big laugh describing his recent discovery of a website called groupiecentral.com which features tales of anonymous sex with musicians. “Stories like that make me proud of my craft,” he said...
...Jazz musicians are famously laid-back and, true to form, Danny Fox does not flinch when discussing the “t-word” (he’s not writing a thesis) or the “f-word” (plans for the future are comfortably vague and pretty much wide open at this point). “I’ll either be married with three kids. Or pursuing my life long dream of joining the circus or of becoming a male model…” he says, rattling off an extensive list...
...knee. It was enforced before, in 1997, when officials thought shorts were overly baggy-saggy a la hip-hop fashion, violating "the integrity of the uniform," in the words of the NBA's Tim Frank. Shaq says he refuses to wear "John Stockton shorts," referring to the Utah Jazz 39-year-old throwback who wears them shortish and tightish. If he did that, Shaq opined, the kids "would laugh at me, and I wouldn't be their favorite player anymore." He paused before reporters to dab fake tears with a paper towel. Said he: "I'd be the laughingstock...
DIED. TOMMY FLANAGAN, 71, refined, influential jazz pianist who accompanied Ella Fitzgerald for more than a decade; of an arterial aneurysm; in New York City. Born in Detroit, Flanagan developed his signature fluid yet concise style in the house band of that city's storied Blue Bird Inn before playing with Fitzgerald for the first time in 1956. In the late '80s he formed his own trios, recording the acclaimed albums Let's and Jazz Poet...
...Ryles Jazz Club...