Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critically acclaimed jazz musicians Fred W. Houn '79 and Jane Ira Bloom will visit Harvard this week to hold student workshops on improvisational performance...
...tree-lined street where Robertson had lived was gussied up for the occasion, complete with an all-black combo wafting cool jazz notes into the crisp autumn air. But only 60 or so supporters were seated on folding chairs. An additional 400 were expected but didn't show, and the candidate's tranquil TV tableau was quickly transformed into bedlam in Bed-Stuy. Several dozen demonstrators, many of them gay activists, waved derisive placards that proclaimed such unglad tidings as HITLER IN 1939. ROBERTSON IN 1988. As Robertson volunteers distributed bumper stickers, a grandmotherly black woman snapped, "Does he really...
...Hilton ballroom is sold out, and Cosby, after starting slowly, leaves the crowd howling at his routine on trifocal eyeglasses. In his spacious dressing room between shows, he wolfs rigatoni puttanesca and taps his toe to a jazz tape by Slim Gaillard while entertaining a stream of callers. A casino manager from Reno has flown in with a wholesale price book for sterling flatware; Cosby wants 70 place settings, and he wants a better price than the $98,000 he was quoted retail. He takes a call from a wine merchant about some cases of Chateau Petrus, but tells...
...Still, most of the characters, like musicians, have in their dialogue recognizable themes and rhythms. Director Paul Dervis deserves praise for his orchestration of this symphony of fear and loathing, keeping it somewhere between the rigidity of a baroque set of variations and the looseness of a free-form jazz improvisation...
...tended to be facile in his attitude toward classical music: "I'd like to write a quartet some day," he mused. "But it will be something simple, like Mozart." Even today, when the rich harmonies of A Foggy Day and The Man I Love have become pop classics and jazz standards, the High Gershwin of Porgy and Bess and Concerto in F finds detractors. They began sounding sour notes as early as 1925, when the New York Times critic found the concerto's "instrumentation . . . neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring." Composer Virgil Thomson wrote, "Gershwin does not even know...