Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Johnson, a world renowned jazz trombonist and composer, will perform in concert with the Harvard Jazz Band on April 20, the Office for the Arts (OFA) announced in a statement released last week...
...million dollars in gambling taxes when its casino revenues plummeted because of new competition from Iowa. In New Orleans the gargantuan hulk of a half-built casino, slated to be the world's largest, sits rusting on the edge of the French Quarter. The builder, Harrah's Jazz Co., is bankrupt, done in by an overly optimistic tax deal with the state. Louisiana Governor Mike Foster, once a gambling booster, now wants to outlaw both casinos and video poker...
...have a disappointing solo career." Sting has managed to stay relevant--and popular--by continuing to create gently innovative music that borrows from other sources so wisely and so well that the resulting sound is truly his own. "I'm interested in impure music," says Sting. "Pure rock, pure jazz or pure anything just doesn't interest me. This is the game I play." In that spirit, his new CD, Mercury Falling, draws on country, gospel and even Celtic music to create smooth, genre-blending, articulate pop. It's another bright entry in what has proved to be Sting...
...concert chat in the band's dressing room, though perhaps it shouldn't have come as too great a surprise that a self-described "amateur" clarinetist who also happens to be a world-famous filmmaker can sell out halls like the Olympia, which recently canceled a concert by jazz great Ornette Coleman owing to low ticket sales. But if fame pulls in the crowds, Allen works hard to send them home happy. "I'm very conscious of the audience. It's not like Michael's Pub, where I just look down at my feet. Here I have to think about...
After the final encore, Allen holds court in a red satin-draped dressing room that looks like the kind of bordellos where jazz was born. Two French political luminaries are ushered in: former Culture Minister Jack Lang and Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin. Lang, who railed for years against American "cultural imperialism," is now fawning over one of its exemplars. "Woody's music is like a fountain of youth," he gushes...