Word: jazzing
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...that Jazz, at a Bargain Price
...city-savvy New Yorker, educated at the Upper West Side’s elite Trinity School and once so proficient at the piano that he lied about his age so he could play the storied Jimmy Ryan’s jazz club when he was 15 years old, has spent almost his entire adult life in horse racing...
...little overpromising at the annual "upfronts," the expensive stage shows at which networks show trailers from their fall debuts and literally put on a song-and-dance for advertisers. At Carnegie Hall, CBS hired the Broadway cast of Chicago to disparage the competition to the tune of All That Jazz: "ABC is out of gas/while NBC eats horse's a__" (a reference to the horse-rectum-eating challenge on Fear Factor). They're called upfronts because they're designed to entice advertisers to pay billions up front for next season's ads, and the deals are lubricated by cocktails...
...life-long lover of jazz and opera, he dabbled as a musician during his time at the FBI, playing second violin with the Brockton Symphony...
...only one hit single--I Loves You Porgy in 1959--but gained a following in the U.S. and Europe for her alternately smooth and gravelly tones, majestic stage presence and maverick opinions. Bristling at mainstream pop-music labels, Simone called her music "black classical" and embraced African folk, gospel, jazz and show tunes. An influential voice in the civil rights movement--she wrote Mississippi Goddam, a bitter response to the murder of Medgar Evers and a church bombing, and the anthem Young, Gifted and Black--she left the U.S. in 1973 and settled in France...