Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with this confidence to know that she can do anything she likes, Nancy does the things she likes most, like playing jazz piano interpersed with a little Bach and Brahms all night in the Winthrop Common Room, making mobiles, drawing cartoons, and editing film ("the thing I could do ad infinitum' which she once did for 50 consecutive hours.) Sometimes when she feels the need to socialize, she goes out into the courtyard to look for lit rooms, and knocks on doors there until wee hours of the morning. Occasionally, Nancy goes to bars, "but that," she sneers, "is kids...
Unfortunately, this game isn't as easy as it seems. True, the Celtics are probably going to sign Wicks, who Red Auerbach recently heisted from the Portland Trailblazers via the New Orleans Jazz, but it seems like it's going to create a lot more problems than it solves...
With some excellent jazz music schools in the area, every once in a while you can expect the faculties of the school to get together and throw a tremendous concert. That's what the people at Berklee School of Music decided to do tonight. At 8 p.m. in Berklee's Performance Center, the Berklee School will present Berklee's all-star music faculty playing 200 years of jazz. Their big band ensemble will take on Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and others. To get to the performance center hop a Dudley bus to Auditorium. Tickets...
More proof that Boston is a jazz guitar town: Mr. Commercial, George Benson, is coming to Symphony Hall on Friday to play with his Tower of Power group. Don't forget Benson is the formerly right-on guitarist from Arista and CTI records who used to play heavy jazz. He is now in the more lucrative disco scene. I don't know, I used to like Benson, but he's beginning to sound like everyone else. Check him out yourself. The acoustics are better at Symphony than they are at the local clubs...
...Make the debates less formal. New York Campaign Consultant Tony Schwartz considers the format antique, "the difference between opera and jazz," and unsuited to television. Says he: "They should have the two candidates sitting down in a relaxed way with perhaps one moderator and just talking. But the candidates were very rigidly handled. It was dehumanizing to see the way that they were programmed...