Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City ferryboat became a Mississippi stern-wheeler for a day -tootling its way up the Hudson River to the infectious quicksteps of three Dixieland jazz bands. A ballroom at the Commodore Hotel seemed to go through a time warp to the 1930s, as kids in jeans and matrons in long gowns bobbed, swayed and shuffled to the strains of Count Basic and Sy Oliver...
...went last week as jazz came home to the city that reared it, made it rich, sucked it dry, threw it aside -and now, in a stroke of historical irony, seems to have given it one of its biggest revitalizations ever. For nine days, some 62 all-stars and more than 500 sidemen-from Duke Ellington to Charlie Byrd, from Dizzy Gillespie to Roberta Flack, from Eddie Condon to Sonny Rollins-wailed through 30 concerts in eleven various settings (range: 300 seats to 32,000). When it was all over, more than 100,000 jazz buffs had paid a total...
...event was called the Newport Jazz Festival New York. It was a massive transplant of the same Newport Festival that rotund former Jazz Pianist George Wein, 46, had run for 18 years in a large field hard by Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. In recent years, with rock festivals failing on all sides, Newport had become a new chosen land of the Huns of Aquarius. Last year, when a noisy and violent horde broke through a chain-link fence and overran the paying customers while Dionne Warwicke was singing, Wein had enough; he canceled the show. A few days...
...country rock that Poco is able to succeed so well at. There are no frills, and yet, there's a feeling that this band has much more range than Poco. It's the horns. Garth and Jon Clarke add a new dimension to the music. The aren't strong jazz artists, but the fact that they weren't onstage trying to blow Coltrane licks ultimately worked to their advantage. They were never prominent in the live mix, but they added occasional embellishments to a decidedly unembellished music. And when they did, their contributions were both fresh and tasteful, like...
Martha and the Vandellas said, "There'll be music everywhere" in "Dancing in the Street." And this summer there will be music everywhere, from the playgrounds in the North End, to Boston Common, and from the intimacy of the small jazz club to the cavern of Boston Garden...