Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jazz. Fred Ho '79, Don Braden '85, Illinois Jacquet and Dwayne 'Cook' Broadnax celebrated the Harvard Jazz Band's 25th anniversary to the delight of a roomful of cats. Tom Everett, director of bands, was honored at various points in the concert for his 25-year dedication to the Jazz Band...
Jones' comprehensive understanding of music makes him him one of the very few musicians to transcend the boundaries between genres and work with artists who span five decades and range in style from big band to pop to jazz...
...think his sense of arrangement, his work with Count Basie and Duke Ellington...were very thick productions with lots of orchestration," says Lee Mergner, associate publisher of Jazz Times. "But later he was able to bring big band into the pop framework. He is truly one of those musicians who can adjust to the times...
Each of the songs is a modern R & B remake of 22 of Jones all-time favorite big band jazz hits from 11 of his earlier...
...think because he is a consummate musician he has literally been able to hear and discover what is essential about what the next thing is," says Dwight D. Andrews, who taught Music 131: "History of Jazz." Andrews is the first to hold an associate visiting professorship sponsored by Quincy Jones...