Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best team this season is again in the West. Wait, check that. The 400 best teams are in the West. The Lakers, the Spurs, the Kings, the Trail Blazers, the Timberwolves...heck, the Jazz, the Sonics—even the Clippers are better than any team in the East. But the NBA is set up in such a way that the Celtics could waltz into the Championship, a la the Patriots, and “shock” the world...
...listen to this new album by the acclaimed jazz singer: 1) Skip all slow songs more than five minutes long that have contemplative, New Age ambiance, acoustic guitar and solemn lyrics. This includes Wilson's spaced-out cover of the Band's The Weight, which drags like a lead trailer. 2) Dance contentedly to her shorter originals, like Show Me a Love. 3) Listen to the traditional jazz number Darkness on the Delta and the blues classic You Gotta Move, and find yourself transported by her low, earthy voice. Mourn that she so often wastes it on distractingly pretentious material...
...debut in Texaco Star Theater; in Los Angeles. DIED. DUDLEY MOORE, 66, British comic actor, musician and star of stage and screen best known for the 1960s act Beyond the Fringe, as well as the films 10 and Arthur; in Plainfield, New Jersey. A talented classical and jazz pianist, the diminutive Moore once said, "If I'd been able to hit someone in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic." DIED. DOROTHY DELAY, 84, renowned violinist and instructor of some of the finest players to have emerged in the past 30 years; in Upper Nyack, New York. Educated...
...Harlem at the launch party for "Bill Clinton and Black America" by DeWayne Wickham (One World/Ballantine). And on Tuesday night, we watched him hosting a party for Sarah Brady, the author, with Merrill McLoughlin, of "A Good Fight" (PublicAffairs; April 2). The scene in the Blue Smoke's Jazz Standard Club was pure Arkansas: dark and smoky, with such down-home dishes as BBQ pork and giant onion rings, beer and seemingly lax security. Jim Brady, Sarah Brady's husband, sat out in the audience in his wheelchair, eating ribs. Brady had been incapacitated in the 1981 assassination attempt...
...first poem, “dark phrases,” opens with all seven actresses on stage and wrapped in a piece of gossamer fabric. Jazz music accompanies their moan-ridden laughter. A motif that recurs throughout the show emerges, as a black girl’s voice surfaces through the music...