Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan will perform a sword dance Sunday. Mask making, tie-dying, and drum shows are also scheduled. The musical lineup includes a "jazz jam session," an "evening of romantic music," individual piano performances, and other group performances...
...later. "I watched the fellow's feet next to me and did what he did." He quickly graduated to Broadway musicals, then in 1930 was brought to Hollywood as a contract player for Warner Bros., the studio that had ushered in the talkies a few years earlier with The Jazz Singer. Many silent-film stars' careers were destroyed by the triumph of sound; Cagney's was ensured by it. He was one of the first actors to grab an audience by sending dialogue special delivery, with a style of high-speed utterance that could animate even the most inert exchanges...
...performance opened with "Blues Suite"--set to jazz and blues music--a piece that Ailey created in 1958 about people and places from his hometown in Texas. As Ailey explained in his introduction, the train sounds we hear during "Blues Suite" echo those he heard growing up near a railroad track...
...synthesized from good choreography, music and costumes, the performance lacked the emotional electricity that usually accompanies an Ailey program. In addition, it seemed odd that a night dedicated to the theme "In the Black Tradition," did not include Ailey's masterpiece, "Revelations," which celebrates Afro-American gospel, religious, and jazz music...
King plans a four-day benefit tour to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in early May. At $550 per supporter, the deluxe tour includes a New Orleans campaign party...