Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the company who did attend included actor Peter Boyle, screenwriter Walon Green, and two of the original Brink's robbers, Jazz Maffie and Sandy Richardson...
...highlight of the visit was an evening of entertainment in the pavilion. As a lively band beat out a variety of tunes, from rock to disco to jazz, the colonists burst into song, including a rousing chorus of America the Beautiful. Even the skeptical Ryan was impressed. He rose to tell his assembled hosts: "From what I've seen, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that has happened in their whole lives." The audience applauded loudly. Jones stood up and led the clapping...
DIED. Lennie Tristano, 59, pianist, teacher and composer, who was a pioneer of cool, light, fluid jazz; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. A Chicago boy blinded by measles at nine, Tristano later experimented with welding classical music to jazz and developed his own style of long melodic lines and shifting harmonies. Organizing several combos, he allowed each musician to play his own melody in his own key and rhythm with results that anticipated by a decade the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman...
...singing the blues last week for Mabel Mercer or Alberta Hunter. The two were delighted with their portraits in "A Song I Can See: Great Women in Jazz," an exhibition of photographs by Barbara Bordnick at The Space gallery in Manhattan. Mercer, 78, still croons in cafes and listens to her old discs, though "only for correction. Never for pleasure." Hunter, 83, is back on the cafe circuit after having given up music 20 years ago to don a nurse's uniform. On Dec. 3, she takes on Washington at a Kennedy Center gala, and she knows her program...
Then, of course, there's disco, a natural extension of Tintti's love for jazz dancing and ballet. But dancing is one of the luxuries that has to take a backseat to off-ice jogging and exercising, activities she says American skaters don't do enough...