Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept him at his trumpet lessons. Four years later, he bowed to the teacher's urging and packed the boy off to Paris to enter the Conservatoire. For over a decade before records began to spread his reputation, Andre took any job he could get: TV commercials, jazz dates, concerts in the Michel Legrand orchestra and endless La Bohemes in the pit of the Opera Comique. Says he: "Look, every day for 44 years, my father went down into the mines with a smile on his face. How can I not be happy playing music...
...creating outlandish imaginary situations: the Lone Ranger becomes a lonely homosexual who can't accept gratitude; Adolf Hitler is reduced to a house painter, cast as the Fuhrer by ambitious producers. His delivery is equally abrupt--he bends words, runs phrases together and throws away punch lines like a jazz musician improvising a solo...
Still may get his wish some day. Right now he is going to have to settle for the benefits accruing to him as part of a revival of interest in serious black American music-as opposed to jazz and the blues. Within the past year the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has devoted a week-long festival to Still and other black composers. Columbia Records has issued the first four albums of an ambitious new black-composers series. One of the LPs offers Still's Afro-American Symphony (1930), a prismatically scored, blues-flavored gem and, incidentally, the first symphony ever...
...history of this nation, there have been times when events moved more swiftly than the people perceived. It was that way in the 1920s and the 1930s. Before many understood what had happened, the world moved grimly on and the rites of the jazz age became a mockery. There is a lot of that feeling right now. Jerry Ford is still doing the Charleston, and the music has stopped...
Keefe's schedule could match the ledger of the most agressive politician, as he plays in the Harvard Jazz Band, works part-time as a research assistant and computer programmer, is in the process of applying to graduate schools, and is trying to write a thesis in economics...