Word: jazzing
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...zydeco music pioneer, regarded by many as one of the last links to French-Creole musical traditions; in Opelousas, Louisiana. Carriere's most recent recording was Les miseres dans le coeur (The Misery Direct from the Heart) in 2000. He was scheduled to perform in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this April...
...youth occasionally shows through in the form of clammed notes and mishandled equipment, but these mishaps pale in comparison to the outstanding solos and consistently solid ensemble playing. The show’s only real weakness is its lack of original music (the repertoire is mainly comprised of classical, jazz, and theater selections), which detracts from an otherwise innovative concept...
...once he takes the stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could not hope to sum up the anticipation or the result that was his performance at Sanders Theater...
...similarly evoked muted trumpets and smooth saxophones with a jazz ensemble formed from the Harvard Monday Jazz band, creating a piercing breathy tonality that summoned legendary trumpeter Miles Davis on his composition “All Blues.” In these moments, McFerrin managed to supercede the novelty of his vocal texture and managed to shift the focus onto his mammoth musical mind. Fingering the microphone as if it were a stringed instrument, he made as much an homage to Davis’ improvisational ability as much as he did the legendary trumpeter’s trademark sound. Using...
Hentoff: I used to play the clarinet but I stopped long ago. I couldn’t have made it as a jazz musician, I could have made it as a classical musician, but not with jazz. And as Charles Mingus used to say, I wasn’t interested in spending my life playing other people’s music...