Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questioning, or just a collection of exceedingly articulate athletes most probably a combination of both each chapter seems better than the last. Paul Waner, Rube Marquard, Edd Roush, Goose Goslin and Hank Greenberg have much to tell and tell it well. They talk of an America when baseball, like Jazz music, was not a respectable profession. It was difficult for Jimmy Austin to rush off to Dayton Ohio to play ball in a factory league for forty dollar's a month. It was equally difficult for Harry Hoper to overlook a good job as an engineer to try his luck...
...concert," in which a disc jockey narrator spins out the tale of a young girl who dreams of becoming a pop singer. Her father is a Harlem minister, her mother a traditionalist who believes the only good music is God's music. This becomingly naive plot--a black Jazz Singer or a prequel to Dreamgirls--is sturdy enough to support a dozen or so knockout gospel singers, with a spirit that cradles the audience in its communal warmth. Steve Williams leads the Reach Ensemble with dervish vitality; Terry Myrick and Gaillou emerge from that choir to perform prodigies of soul...
RUBEN BLADES Y SEIS DEL SOLAR: BUSCANDO AMERICA (Elektra/Asylum). The title translates as "Searching for America." But no translation is necessary to catch the salsa rhythms and deft jazz inflections that surround these political parables...
...Maurice Stokes game, an irresistible charity, he was exposing himself only to a few thousand "screaming precocious kids." While coaching the Cincinnati Royals in 1969, Cousy actually came back for a few N.B.A. minutes, merely as the pragmatist cooperating with the merchandisers "trying to jazz up business with old No. 14 on the bench." Sitting beside him, actually inside him, was the sentimentalist. "I never wanted to expose the old bod' before that 35-and-over group, to spoil the illusion, destroy the myth, look like what you are, a tired...
Instead, director and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola drags his audience on a fragmented, flat voyage through the JAZZ age cinematically unjazzed...