Word: jazzed
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...DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, 1930s pioneer of jazz violin; in Kansas City. A fixture of Kansas City's swing scene, Williams played with Nat King Cole and recorded as a guitarist with Count Basie. He fell into obscurity after World War II and worked as a welder but gained renewed prominence while touring in the 1970s and appearing in the 1998 Broadway revue Black and Blue...
...Just jazz. Nothing else. Tickets $7, $5 for students and seniors. 8 p.m. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts...
DANCE | Just Jazz...
...contrast with more routine runway shows that incorporate techno, lounge or jazz music at different points in the show, Eleganza’s musical range was strictly limited to straight hip-hop. The result was occasionally jarring, particularly at one point in “Hollywood,” when models paying homage to cinematic couplings of the 50s strutted to the R&B groove of Next’s “Wifey...
...Nirvana or Pearl Jam; she hasn't captured the passions or preoccupations of her generation; she is not a new flavor that launches 32 more. Instead, her success has called attention to the jazz-pop divas who came before her--Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall and Madeleine Peyroux. Most pop phenomena are lightning bolts, flashing quickly and dramatically across the zeitgeist. Jones is a light rain, touching everything and seeping permanently into the soil. In an age when knob-twiddling producers rule and lip-synching pop tarts stalk the stage, she has reintroduced the world to the human voice. Jones...