Word: jazzing
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Available soon in the jazz-to-die-for genre, A Very Still Life, a CD featuring the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Don't expect "horribly morbid stuff," warns Resist Records owner Chad Williams, who says Kevorkian's compositions are "upbeat." Backed by the Morpheus Quintet, the doctor improvises on flute. Some of the proceeds, if any, will fund an assisted-suicide clinic...
...participating groups include Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, Harvard Gumboots, Crimson Dance Team, H-R Ballet Company, Expressions, H-R Dance Company, H-R Hillel, Mainly Jazz, South Asian Association and the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team...
These groups will be rounded out by individual performances of hiphop, jazz...
DIED. TONY WILLIAMS, 51, splashy, polyrhythmic jazz drummer; of a heart attack; in Daly City, California. Tapped by Miles Davis to join his legendary quintet in 1963, Williams was a master at blending jazz with styles from blues to classical. His 1969 band, Lifetime, pioneered jazz-rock fusion...
Afro-Am 154 is taught by Dwight D. Andrews, an Emory University professor who is the current Jones visiting associate professor of African-American music. Andrews is also teaching a class on the history of jazz this term, and composed the music for August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," now a Broadway...