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...garb: La Fura dels Baus, the avant-garde theater troupe best known for its choreography of the Barcelona Olympic Games' opening ceremonies, is staging the latter. Inventive new works are being set as well: Milos Forman, for example, is building Well-Paid Walk - what he calls a jazz opera - around pieces of old movie footage. Such attention to modern entertainment is necessary, says Payne, to attract a younger crowd. "New audiences want theatricality," he says...
...surprise some fans to learn that Charlie Watts was stomping at the Savoy long before he ever got his ya-yas out. Watts, 45, who grew up in England listening to the gospel-tinged music of Cannonball Adderley and Art Blakey, had always dreamed of organizing an old-style jazz orchestra, but it was not until last year that the idea came together in a big 34-piece way. Last March in London, the soft-spoken stickman and his new group (including two other drummers) recorded an album, The Charlie Watts Orchestra: Live at Fulham Town Hall. Last week Watts...
...thing, remind us of other green things and inspire us to say, "That's green" (the Easy Problem), but it also actually looks green: it produces an experience of sheer greenness that isn't reducible to anything else. As Louis Armstrong said in response to a request to define jazz, "When you got to ask what it is, you never get to know...
DIED. Michael Brecker, 57, rich-toned, 11-time Grammy winner widely regarded as the most influential jazz saxophonist since John Coltrane; of leukemia; in New York City. A prized session player for artists from Chet Baker to Bruce Springsteen, he also dazzled as a front man in his own bands, including the rock fusion group the Brecker Brothers, with his trumpet-playing brother Randy. Of his early encounter with the dense, hypnotic riffs of Coltrane, who inspired him to become a professional musician, he said, "There seemed to be too many notes lying around. I kept listening to it, though...
...freely. Listen to some alternative rock and punk bands at Les Foufounes Electriques. Try not to notice that all of the students are back in class as you headbang to silence. In a shocking twist of fate, the city did not choose to host its International Fireworks Competition, International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs Festival, International Film Festival, and Grand Prix in late January. However, one of Montreal’s 90 organized festivals is on during intersession, the famed La Fête des Neiges. Go to Parc Jean-Drapeau to watch the dogsled races in honor of Balto! He?...