Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday through Saturday. Passim, in the alley between the two halves of the Harvard Coop, doubles as a restaurant by day and features folk artists and acoustic guitarists by night. If you don't mind a short hike up Cambridge Street to Inman Square, you can hear live jazz and blues at the 1369 Club...
Closer to the homefront, Concerts on the Common has a big line-up of easy listening, reggae and jazz concerts scheduled. Permit complications have plagued the Boston Common program in previous years, but it's in full swing this summer with most shows starting at 6 p.m. Veteran rockers Santana will play on the scenic park this Friday, June 28. Popular jazzist Pat Metheny is featured Wednesday, July 10 and will be followed on July 19 with mainstream funkist Chaka Khan...
...late 19th century, Henry James no longer needs to cloak the intent of gossip. In What Maisie Knew he reports, "Everybody was always assuring everybody of something very shocking, and nobody would have been jolly if nobody had been outrageous." The Great Gatsby offers a classic instance of jazz-age chatter: " 'He's a bootlegger,' said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. 'One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last...
...ballet class, and that's where I met Christopher Flynn, who saved me from my high school turmoil. He had a ballet school in Rochester. It was beautiful. I didn't know what I was doing, really. I was with these really professional ballet dancers. I had only studied jazz up to then, so I had to work twice as hard as anybody else and Christopher Flynn was impressed with me. He saw my body changing and how hard I worked...
...took a cab to Bourbon Street. I put a hat on and pulled it down low, but I stepped onto the curb and one person said, "There's Madonna," and then everybody said, "There's Madonna." We started walking down the street looking in windows and watching some jazz groups, and the more we walked, the more people started to follow us. The people don't want to hurt me. They just want to be near me. Actually it hasn't gotten to the point where I never go out. I still go running on the street and shopping...