Word: jazzing
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...afraid of imprisonment, as evidenced by her antipathy for the life of the nuns. She is afraid of abstract sermons or classical music. She spends her money on multicolored skirts and jazz records. At one point, she becomes so fed up with the dreary abstemious existence at Imber that she returns to London...
...sound of his voice and then the soft song of a blackbird on the other end of the line. In distress, she leaves Noel and goes to the National Gallery, where a Gainsborough painting excites unfamiliar emotions in her. Suddenly disordered and overwhelmed by the noise and jazz of London, and with the blackbird in her mind, she returns to Imber almost involuntarily. There, she feels, she can address her “real” problems...
DIED. RAY BARRETTO, 76, Grammy-winning "godfather" of Latin jazz; in Hackensack, N.J. Renowned for integrating the conga into jazz, he decided to become a musician after hearing a Dizzy Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...
...dramatic superstar.”Shaking her booty to “Dontcha” by the Pussycat Dolls and “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mixalot, the 39-year-old held her own to Dogman’s balletic jazz moves, eventually dancing up to him.To assess Berry’s dramatic talent, Blickstead and Dodd asked that she re-enact the highway scene from Monster’s Ball, the film which brought her an Oscar for best actress.Filling in for Billy Bob Thornton was Samuel Gale Rosen...
...cacophony of violins; ultimately, the music wins out. And there are striking things to follow. The scope of most of these songs is grand; they encompass a world of moods, and each line can turn on a pin. Tender chords blend into spastic dance, fall into velvet strains of jazz, and then cycle back again. The music detours and diverges, but it is never allowed to drift—Herren’s skilled hand keeps all the parts moving behind the scenes, ensuring that even the most abrupt shift feels integral to the shape of the song. And often...