Word: jazzed
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...paper for now, a new New Orleans is taking shape. Some of its canals would be filled in to serve as parks. The red-light district once known as Storyville would be revived as a jazz center near the French Quarter. There would be charter schools instead of slum schools, a streamlined city government and, most important, rebuilt levees. But that "audacious" action plan laid out last week by Mayor Ray Nagin's 17-member Bring New Orleans Back Commission has met with a storm of controversy, not just from residents of the poor Ninth Ward but also from wealthier...
HUSTLE AMC, SATURDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. This unapologetically slight con drama is a chrome-plated time machine back to the mid-'60s. In the spirit of Catch Me If You Can, it signals its retro intentions with midcentury-modern production design, a jazz sound track and the casting of Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as an aging grifter ("You're never too old to cheat, my dear"). Adrian Lester (Primary Colors) is ice cool as Mickey, a Zen master of con who treats his work more as philosophy than fraud. It's all delightfully phony, but will win your...
DIED. LOU RAWLS, 72, Grammy-winning singer who performed doo-wop with high school pal Sam Cooke before recording a long list of soulful tunes for broader audiences in genres from jazz to gospel; of lung and brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man who Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love Is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road) and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound" typified on his signature megahit...
...DIED. LOU RAWLS, 72, Grammy Award-winning American singer who performed doo-wop with high-school pal Sam Cooke before recording a long list of soulful tunes for broader audiences in genres from jazz to gospel; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man whom Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road), and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound," typified on his million-plus selling signature...
...economy deeply--before joining us he had a long career at the Wall Street Journal, including eight years as managing editor--so he guided us expertly through the heady '90s and their trying aftermath. The range of his expertise is breathtaking. Just one example: his knowledge of blues and jazz is so authoritative that he once published his ranking of the 20 best recordings of Stormy Monday Blues. His remarkable combination of traits is why the people who judge magazine editing most critically, the American Society of Magazine Editors, gave Norm their lifetime achievement award...