Word: jazzed
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...subway. Paris' transit authority RATP is fast becoming a hotly contested sound stage. Since 1997, Antoine Naso, a 21-year RATP veteran and the authority's self-designated artistic director, has selected a range of entertainers to fill the Metro's tentacular halls with world music, rock and jazz standards or classical melodies...
...Recently, London's Underground and transit systems in Rotterdam and Tokyo approached Naso for tips on how to set up similar tryouts. The Metro's liveliest stages include Ch?telet, with bands performing Latin American music and New Orleans jazz, and the Bastille, where Matsumiya regularly performs because, she says, it has "good acoustics." And Metronauts...
...G.O.P., at 2004NYCGOP.ORG, is sponsoring a contest, Stand Up and Holla, inviting young entrants to write about the President's call to community service. The prize? A trip to the convention. John Kerry's site, JOHNKERRY.COM, meanwhile, offers up remixes of Kerry one-liners--sprinkled over funk and jazz beats. --By Patrick Stack
DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, Count Basie's first recorded guitarist and a master of the jazz violin; in Kansas City, Mo. Born in Oklahoma, he supposedly helped teach a young Charlie Parker how to switch from one chord to another. He toured into his 90s and played at President Bill Clinton's second Inauguration...
...Sanaa Lathan is winning and funny as Walter's headstrong sister. Former Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad, dumpy and nearly unrecognizable as Walter's mother, breaks through the cliches to create an unsentimental portrait of moral strength in the midst of squalor. But nearly every detail (from the mellow jazz musical interludes to a 10-year-old boy's wince in pain as his mama pulls a comb through his hair) seems exactly right in Kenny Leon's finely wrought production...