Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jazz Christmas: Windham Hill has the removal of soul down cold. A Jazz Christmas is essentially a bunch of Christmas carols played on jazz instruments by instrumentalists whose creativity is maxed out by the slightest deviation from 4/4. Don't buy it for your dad unless you wish to inspire an epileptic seizure by conjuring up piped-in office music from the pre-holiday rush. Better Jazz picks include Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas and Wynton Marsalis in A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert...
...Mainly Jazz Dance Company, whose dance style is broadly-detined, might have had a harder time surprising the audience. From the first piece onward, though, the troupe managed to tweak the conventions of jazz and modern dance in a way that was consistently imaginative...
Perhaps the best thing about last weekend's joint Mainly Jazz, and Harvard-Radcliffe Bullet Company performance was that it consisted of neither mainly jazz nor mainly ballet. Both companies--along with the guest appearance of the athletic Crimson Dance Team--challenged the traditional genres of dance. Aptly titled "Footnotes," (each number yielded a genninely new inter-pretation) the show offered some of the most energetic dance and choreography in recent Harvard memory...
...ballet company's pieces, though, the most refreshing was "In the Jazz Club," an almost incidental piece choreographed by company member Kiesha Minyard '99. Dancers Nozomi Nishimura '98, Sunny Wong '01, Erin Conroy '01, Kristi Schaeffer '00 and Selene Kaye '01, glided across the stage with the sleek black clothes and the shmaltzy moves of the Jazz Age hepcats...
More than anything else, the choice of music defined the Mainly Jazz company's sense of creativity, Mainly Jazz audiences generally have come to expect the same brand of familiar dance-remixes and popular R&B hits nearly every year--credit goes to this fall's talented set of Mainly Jazz choreographers who made each number seem startlingly original...