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Last week the jazz trio of Ray Brown, Benny Green and Russell Malone made its way into town for a night's performance at the Regatta Bar in the Charles Hotel. While Green is informally the leader of the group, it is bassist Brown who has worked with the big names, playing in Oscar Peterson's juggernaut trios, Dizzy Gillespie's bebop band and collaborating with Duke Ellington. Rounding out the trio was guitarist Russell Malone, one of the best of young jazz guitarists today...
...great just playing with my best friends, and having the audience sitting in and listening so closely." In this age of mega pop-stars and ultra-celebrities, that vulnerable relationship between artist and audience is often worn threadbare. Still, it's great that there are chances for the jazz fan to do just that-sit in and listen closely...
...says he is making sure that he still gets the opportunity to play the improvisational rock and jazz that he enjoys. He recently practiced with Second Act, a Harvard student rock band, and plans to continue playing with the band in the future...
Social and cinema history back him up. The first great movie epic (The Birth of a Nation) and the first talkie sensation (The Jazz Singer) wallowed in racial derision, personified by white actors in blackface. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Bugs Bunny defaced themselves in minstrel cork. Egregious stereotyping can still be heard, most mornings, on Don Imus' and Howard Stern's radio shows--aural blackface. Somebody had to shout, "Enough," and, whaddaya know, it was Spike...
...Sather's famous Scandinavian cinnamon buns appear regularly on the breakfast tray, bottles of Goose Island beer cool in the fridge, and Chicago-style blues, jazz and Irish music waft through the house. One almost expects to see Cubs, Bears and Bulls out in the garden, landscaped with indigenous flowers by the Chicago Botanical Garden...