Word: jazzing
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...Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" cried Al Jolson halfway through The Jazz Singer. Jolson's urgent, boastful bray--an ad-libbed intro to his rendition of Toot Toot Tootsie--cut through the opening-night audience at the Warner Theatre near Times Square like an obstetrician's scissors severing the umbilical cord to silent films, for 30 years the dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound...
...year became the first European player to win Rookie of the Year. This year Yao is a favorite to become the first Asian to get the honor. Meanwhile, Russian-born 6-ft. 9-in. forward Andrei Kirilenko is helping his elders John Stockton and Karl Malone keep the Utah Jazz in the play-off hunt. "There are going to be a lot of us," says Gasol. "We're proving we can play here...
TAARANA. A concert that celebrates diverse forms of South Asian music, Taraana mixes classical South and North Indian music, folk songs, modern pop songs, with fusion pieces integrating jazz and hip hop. Uniting musicians from diverse corners of Harvard College with musicians from MIT and BU to present South Asian music, Taraana will be the first of its kind in the history of Harvard University. All profits from the concert will support shelters in Lowell and Worcester. Tickets $5, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone at (617) 496-2222. Saturday, March 15, 2003?...
...TAPS. Harvard’s only tap dance performance group, features a wide variety of musical styles from pop to samba to Irish in TAP this! TAPS’ fifteen undergraduate members will showcase their dance and choreography skills. The show will also feature guest stars Expressions and Mainly Jazz. $7 regular, $5 students (2 per ID), and $5 seniors, on sale at the Harvard Box Office or by phone at (617) 496-2222. Friday, March 14, 7:30 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall, 14 Kirkland...
...heard of him—but Thank You is an easy recommendation for fans of the sample collages of DJ Shadow, the Avalanches, or (to an extent) Moby. Kaada brings influences as diverse as R&B, ragtime and jazz together for a unique sound that is at once soulful and humorous, not to mention funky. Like many artist debuts, the album strikes a distinctive chord; but unlike most, it sounds marvelously mature. Clearly, Kaada knows exactly what he’s doing in the studio...