Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SYMPHONY HALL. Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Tickets: 266-1492. March...
Anatomy of a Murder. The first of Otto Preminger's films in which he tried to raise moral and political questions stars James Stewart as a rustic lawyer who plays jazz piano while thinking out his strategy. Fascinating psychology in a complex courtroom tale. With Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, and Joseph Welch...
...felt that he was stepping on his own toes. He wanted to be a choreographer and build a new dance company. That company's mission would be to sum up the dance heritage of Ailey's fellow blacks, to express "the exuberance of [the Negro's] jazz, the ecstasy of his spirituals and the dark rapture of his blues." In 1958, when Ailey was 27, he got the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater off the ground. Yet if Ailey today occupies a special niche in American dance, it is because, having achieved his ethnic goal, he promptly...
...Ailey staples as Flowers (a rock piece based on the life and death of Janis Joplin) and Masekela Langage (a militant, African-flavored work about the effect of violence on lives today). If there was a showstopper, it was Ailey's early (1960) Revelations, a scintillating fusion of jazz, folk and gospel, as well as a showcase for the art of Ailey's premiere danseuse Judith Jamison. Elegant of long limb, eloquent of stride and poise, Jamison epitomizes Ailey's ideal of the total dancer. Ailey has created a work that has become for Jamison the kind...
...paradox is simple: Why would a man with jazz in his head pick an African and three soul band session men as his rhythm section? The answer's someplace in Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory. The album isn't a noticeable improvement over Low Spark: the immediate impression is hypnosis, which is why so many have called it "soporic," Shoot Out is gripping, but on the subtlest levels...