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...commanded the 1989 Atlantis voyage and launched the Magellan probe that mapped the surface of Venus; in Houston, Texas. Walker also flew on three other U.S. space shuttle missions, including the 1984 Discovery, which was the first successful attempt at retrieving satellites from orbit. DIED. ISAAC ("IKE") COLE, 73, jazz pianist and composer and brother of the late Nat ("King") Cole; in Sun Lakes, Arizona. Cole, who once considered changing his name to differentiate himself from his more famous brother, played keyboard on Unforgettable, the Grammy-winning 1992 tribute album by Nat's daughter Natalie Cole...
...Given that the Harlem Renaissance coincided with the Jazz Age, the Internet is an ideal medium to deliver representative film clips and music tracks of the 1920s and 1930s to provide a truly interactive and engaging experience," Gates said...
...befits their talents, but not their music's spirit. The studio appears too sterile, too clean compared to the art, which has its roots as a dance music and involves a long history of Dizzy Gillespie's blazing, sweat-soaked solos or Mongo Santamaria's pulsing congas. Just as jazz only truly manifests itself in front of an audience, its "cousin" (as Paquito d'Rivera dubs it), Latin music needs interplay with spectators. Especially when contrasted with the grainy, blurred handheld video footage that trails the musicians' everyday lives, crisp steadicam film underscores the fact that even though the musicians...
...into their component parts, focusing on agile fingers and tapping nimble feet. He savors the contradiction inherent in the great hulking character that is pianist Chucho Valdes. Valdes is an imposing, giant of a man both in height and in sheer solidity, not to mention musical reputation in the jazz community. His playing is an incomparable mixture of Cuban and North American impulses. Trueba reels in close on his mammoth hands, as they span octaves and meld with the piano's keys in ponderous strokes. Trueba then cuts to a low angle shot down the length of the keyboard...
...when father and son Bebo and Chucho Valdes play a piano duet or when Chico O'Farril wanders aimlessly in the New York City night, the film becomes intensely real and touchingly personal. Calle 54 may indeed be Trueba's "way of repaying a debt of gratitude to Latin jazz," but for novices and the well-versed alike, it also serves to educate and foster a love of the music. Trueba has succeeded, for all the spectacle, and the cracks in between...