Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City Opera, and Davis is now at work on a science-fiction opera called Under the Double Moon (with a libretto by his wife Deborah Atherton), scheduled for production in St. Louis next year. A brilliant pianist, Davis tours regularly with Episteme, his crack avant-garde jazz ensemble...
...would, in other words, seem to embody the notion of a crossover artist. With his jazz background, he calls up visions of the Third Stream, that brief confluence of jazz and classical music long thought dried up. In works like Black, Brown and Beige, Duke Ellington bravely but cautiously ventured across the border that separates the big band from the orchestra; playing with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Pianist John Lewis pushed out the frontiers of his art while still remaining within its bounds. Now Davis, the New Jersey-born, Yale- educated son of a college professor, has gone a step...
...swinging sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller were banned in Nazi Germany as Allied decadence, but Hitler's henchmen were less punctilious when it came to propaganda. West German Jazz Historian Rainer Lotz this week releases his second album titled German Propaganda Jazz. The music was recorded in the 1940s by Charlie and His Orchestra, a 14-member swing band organized by Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda to spread the Nazi message via radio to Allied citizens and occupied Europe...
Among the band's estimated 200 titles, all in English: a version of Stormy Weather that describes British ships "sinking all the time." According to Drummer Freddie Brocksieper, 75, the players joined the band for purely practical reasons. Says he: "No jazz musician could be a believing Nazi. It was completely against the grain. We played to save our lives...
RUBEN BLADES: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (Elektra). The Panamanian sensation's first all-English album is a stone dazzler. A bold, totally successful mix of Latin pop, jazz, rock, doo-wop and unflung street passion...