Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much has happened in four years, in both AIDS research and AIDS education. One of the players who opposed Magic's return three years ago, Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz, said last week, "I have no problem playing against him, absolutely not. We're more knowledgeable now." Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns echoed Malone, though somewhat more earthily: "It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic on the floor." (According to the Centers for Disease Control, a basketball player's chance of contracting AIDS from incidental touching is 1 in 85 million...
Offset with the hyperreality of the homeless characters in the audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
...remembers him. But Edward Elzear ("Zez") Confrey? Pauline Alpert? John Green? Dana Suesse? Today no one can even pronounce some of these names, yet once upon a time--back in the 1920s and '30s--all four of these pianist-composers thrilled large audiences with a scintillating mix of ragtime, jazz and classical sounds that became known as novelty piano. Lost in the shadows cast by Gershwin's brilliance, they have been forgotten, and undeservedly...
...both Dvorak's Humoresque and Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, is equally typical of his exuberant style. Most ambitious of all was the "Girl Gershwin," Dana Suesse (pronounced Sweese), born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her complex compositions such as Afternoon of a Black Faun and Jazz Concerto in D Major for Combo and Orchestra--she certainly wore her influences on her record sleeve--deserve a place in musical history alongside such crossover classics as Gershwin's Concerto in F, Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto and Aaron Copland's clarinet concerto. "Dana Suesse was a marvelous pianist," says Mintun...
DIED. GERRY MULLIGAN, 69, the premier baritone saxophonist and a leading composer-arranger of the past four decades; of complications from a knee infection; in Darien, Connecticut. Though he oversaw the birth of "cool" jazz with Miles Davis in 1947, Mulligan defied classification, playing and writing with a distinctive pulse, wit and imagination. He conceived the "pianoless quartet," which paired his horn with Chet Baker's trumpet over bass and drums...