Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth annual Jazz for Life concert more than met the high standards of previous years' concerts. Even if the more than 900 listeners who packed Sanders Theater last Friday night had not been spending their money on a worthy cause--fighting hunger through Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House homeless committee--the price of admission would have been well worth it to see some 19 of Harvard's greatest acts in a single show...
...Jazz for Life brought together many performers who regularly grace Harvard concert stages, but it also provided a rare opportunity to listen to talented alumni, many of whom only return to Harvard once a year to perform at this very event...
...show opened with the Harvard Jazz Band playing some laid-back blues, followed by an uninspiring arrangement of the Duke Ellington standard "Perdido." Their rousing rendition of Oscar Peterson's "Hallelujah Time" elicited delighted applause from the audience. Excellent solos were performed by Chris Carter, Anton Schwartz, Mark Kaufmann, and Josh Shedroff...
...soared through the upper reaches of his falsetto on "Get Ready, Get Set." The ever-popular Fiona Anderson backed him on that song, and later sang one of her own, "No Regrets." As always, her technical prowess was dazzling. Her delivery, though, leaned more on gospel than on jazz, and therefore seemed a bit out of place in this venue...
...Dean, who founded Jazz for Life five years ago, crooned a melancholy, Nat King Cole-esque "Stardust." Bryan Simmons sang a broodingly beautiful "Round Midnight," and Daniel Banks an equally melancholy "Angel Eyes...