Word: jazzing
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...before Genelle was baptized at the Brooklyn Tabernacle; she didn't want to be baptized while she was still a fornicator.) Gail and Lauren say Genelle allowed herself to be pushed around by the media planners of the wedding, which was largely denuded of Trinidadian culture. There was a jazz trumpeter instead of calypso, grilled snapper instead of curries and a whole army of p.r. people to flack all the donated wares. "That was just an example of how people are using her, using her story," says Gail. "And sometimes she lets it happen...
...DIED. LIONEL HAMPTON, 94, jazz vibraphone virtuoso whose exuberant performances and impeccable sense of swing won him the adoration of critics and crowds alike; in New York City. Originally trained as a drummer, Hampton first tried his hand at the vibraphone?an electronically enhanced xylophone?during a 1930 recording session with Louis Armstrong. Offstage, Hampton was an energetic campaigner for the Republican Party and a developer of low-income housing in Harlem...
...suited to me." She was right. There's a touch of sweet-hearted madness in many of his characters, from the perfectionist chef in Big Night to Wings' goofily hapless cabbie Antonio. Where another actor would have made Monk Keerrraazy with a capital K, Shalhoub portrays him with cool-jazz reserve as a Woody Allenish nerd, which makes the character both funnier and more affecting...
...stations go after older kids too. WTIP in Grand Marais, Minn., offers Ragamuffin Radio, which was created and is produced by teens. The half-hour show, which airs every Monday, includes music as varied as jazz and folk, stories and reported features on topics such as starting a new school year or celebrating Kwanzaa. "Because WTIP is a community station and kids are part of the community, we wanted a program that represented that," says Mary Igoe, the program director. Her daughter Ada, 17, has worked on the show for three years. "Sometimes I don't feel like doing...
...accident, the two improvised on a jazz tune on the piano together for the first year talent show...