Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acre water park where visitors will be able to slide down a 95-ft. mountain, surf on 6-ft. waves and snorkel in pools filled with tropical fish. Opening this fall is the Pleasure Island night-life park, complete with rollerdrome, comedy warehouse, teen video club and jazz saloon. Eisner hopes customers will not remember too well the Pinocchio story, in which visitors to a place called Pleasure Island were turned into donkeys...
Says Pitches member Emert, "Groups like the Opportunes might have current or pop hits in their repertoire. We do more jazz and swing. Also other groups might rely on soloists more if they have one really talented singer. People like Fiona Anderson [88], who are making it big on their own now, were the dominant soloists in a capella groups a few years back." Anderson, who was formerly with the Opportunes and presently sings with a Jazz group called the Upside, plans to cut a solo gospel album after graduation...
...After Jazz Band director Tom Everett remarked that Carter was "80 years young," Carter told the audience, "These are the glory days. The good old days--they...
Nearly 900 people gathered to listen as he joined the Harvard Jazz Band and jazz greats James Williams, Gray Sargent, Whit Browne and Alan Dawson in a two-hour concert in his honor. The 80-year-old Carter's musical career spans 65 years, and includes a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement...
Carter then played numbers with Williams, Sargent, Browne and Dawson, and finished the show by joining with the Jazz Band for the last seven pieces...