Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days out of seven, Floyd's grille in the basement of Cabot House's Barnard Hall just serves hamburgers and other snacks to undergraduates. But on Fridays, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., jazz music and dim lighting transform the spot into "Cookin' at the Grille," Harvard's first nightclub...
...brainchild of Nestor Figueroa '80-6, who created the independent Cookin' at the Grille about two months ago, the club features only student acts, with names like Ernie and Gerald's Cold War Jazz Band...
...rocket, he can look up tendril in a dictionary. And Pynchon's stories are not as bad as he claims. The Small Rain rather artfully juxtaposes the tedium of peacetime Army service, a catastrophic hurricane and sex. The Secret Integration accurately catches the locutions of an alcoholic jazz musician. Under the Rose is an evocative spy story set in a kind of operetta Egypt, with all the local color lifted, as Pynchon admits, from a Baedeker guide for the year 1 899. From the germ of this story sprang...
...record of such shifts can still be read--it lies in the strange discords that often remain when the city changes but the name remains. When they were in New Orleans, the Utah Jazz had a harmonious name, but when they moved west it would have been sensible to change their name to something locally resonant--perhaps to the Utah Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a uniquely felonious appellation. New Orleans sorrow at the loss of their Jazz has been partially ameliorated by the acquisition of the USFL's Breakers, another team whose name made more sense when it was connected...
LIKE TYMPANI, the character of Sax, played by Joel Press, searches for a musical answer to the music industry's dilemma The play wright clearly sides with the saxophone player, whose solution of jazz and creative improvisation is ignored by the movie producers as they stagnate in their own deathly juices Shepard looks for artistic form of expression with the elusive quality of "presence," describing it as a realization that comes to the viewer when he encounters something that's undeniable." Stale Hollywood movies and chicken-shit plays don't have that presence improvisational music, he says sometimes does...