Word: jazzing
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...AARDVARK JAZZ ORCHESTRA Founded in 1973, the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will be performing the music of Mark Harvey and Duke Ellington to students and jazz aficionados alike. Led by Harvey, who is the group’s founder, principal composer, and founding member, the group will offer a night of free entertainment for those who crave a taste of new and classic jazz tunes. Friday, April 4, 8 p.m. Free. MIT Kresge Auditorium, 48 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...seemingly an impossible dream. A year earlier Warner Bros. had released the first (partial) talkie, The Jazz Singer, and the movie biz was in a tizzy. The Al Jolson movie was awful, but the man sang and spoke. A long-sought miracle had arrived. Unfortunately, the camera, heavily blimped to prevent its whirrings from being recorded, was immobilized. Movies could talk but could no longer move gracefully...
...other live performances that go by the boards every day, a precious few live on. You probably have your own personal favorites: that wild day your home team finally won the Big One; the night in Jersey when the Boss was really on; the time you wandered into some jazz joint to find Coltrane at his peak. Then there are some we might all agree on--moments that marked a new phase in the arts or new heights of athletic achievement. We offer an album of some of the great ones that took place on TIME's watch...
...tempo indeed. George Gershwin had agreed to write a symphonic jazz piece for bandleader Paul Whiteman. Gershwin didn't think he had agreed to finish it for a February performance until he read about it in a newspaper a month before the date. So Gershwin got to writing, developing some early musical sketches to a complete score. Almost. By the premiere, he hadn't finished scoring the piano solo. He played it himself, cuing Whiteman when to bring the orchestra back in. An orchestral star was born...
Imagine the pressure to pick good make-out music when you're a rock legend wooing jazz's sultriest vocalist. Yes, it must be hard to be ELVIS COSTELLO, now squiring DIANA KRALL--to the Grammys, to Costello's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, to a London fund raiser at which the pair performed a duet (Elton John's Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word). Costello, 47, and Krall, 38, met presenting an award at last year's Grammys. "It's a wonderful thing, and it's special to me. I'm really happy," Krall told...