Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elma Lewis, the director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, has been choreographing a Boston dance company for a jazz interpretation of "Fair Harvard...
...would make a good pop performer. Many young singers would have been demolished. Not Roberta Flack. Always fascinated with pop music, she took the advice, began lightening and loosening her Puccini-style soprano, soon was singing and playing piano for $20 a night at Mr. Henry's, a jazz joint in the Capitol Hill district of Washington, D.C. Her toughest adjustment was to the audiences, who were literally a far cry from politely attentive classical listeners. "Can we have a little quiet at Table Five, please?" Roberta would call out hopefully. Sometimes she would flee to her dressing room...
Emotional Secret. Roberta is a balladeer who blends jazz, pop and the blues in a way that recalls Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. She appeals to the Sinatra set as much as the jazz buffs, to the over-40s as much as their rock-bopping offspring. Her secret is that emotionally, she banks her fires. She knows that a low flame burns longer and more intriguingly than a high blaze. Thanks to her training, her voice retains a classical elegance, avoiding the frenzied bleating that characterizes so much pop singing today...
...song, embodying everything anybody'd ever called him, and all the while intensely creative. Astral Weeks moved away from all that, not so much in Van's writing, for the words still come from his troubled days in Belfast, as in its music--loose and light, reminiscent of cool jazz...
...also a reminder of the jazz influences present in his music. Just as Astral Weeks was centered around a cool jazz feel, there are still jazz elements in Morrison's later music. "Moondance" has always been a jazz song. The live version has an intimacy, a lightness characteristic of cool jazz, of nightclub music, that the smoke-filled cavernness of the Orpheum couldn't destroy. But for my six bucks, the best song of the night was a perfectly rendered fifties version of Erroll Garner's "Misty." Slightly electrified, the song was a magnificent example of transplanted, uptempo, fifties nightclub...