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Some of Johannes Brahms' music was just a hop, skip and syncopation away from ragtime piano. So it's not surprising that 30-year-old jazz pianist Brad Mehldau holds the composer so close to his heart. But emulating Brahms is the least of Mehldau's worries, as comparisons to the late jazz great Bill Evans tend to follow him wherever he plays...
...season that defined Harvard Ballroom in many ways. By this time, the recent resurgence of swing had taken its hold on the country. Bands like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Squirrel Nut Zipper, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies led the rise of the oldtime blend of jazz and blues...
...concluded with a dinner at the Gordon Indoor Track, featuring brief speeches by Stone, Hauser, Rudenstine and Fineberg, as well as performances by a number of student groups, including the Harvard University Drumline, the Harvard University Jazz Band, the Kuumba Singers and the Veritones...
DIED. JONAH JONES, 90, Grammy Award-winning "easy-listening" jazz trumpeter and nightclub performer; in New York City. His versions of On the Street Where You Live and Baubles, Bangles and Beads became hits...
Directed by Oscar-winning production designer Eugenio Zanetti (Restoration) and produced by Barnet Bain and Stephen Simon (What Dreams May Come), the $3 million Quantum Project wants to be the Jazz Singer of cybercinema--a landmark for the millennial medium. "The Net is a mirror for the way human beings think," says Bain. "Hypertext is the bedrock for a whole new nonlinear art form. When you're clicking your browser from site to site, you're exploring chaos theory. The scenes have no connection, except in your head. Quantum Project is like that. It's not just nonlinear...