Word: jazzing
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...first full-length documentary since 1988’s Let’s Get Lost, Chop Suey is an extended scrapbook session of his life and career, rendered in striking color. On a personal tour through his extensive back catalogue, he takes his camera into smoky jazz clubs and under water, ring-side at boxing matches and bed-side in nurseries. He turns a train trestle into an oversized jungle gym for Adonis Males. He shows us elephants romping in the surf, and strapping lads trotting jauntily alongside as Golden Retrievers, groomed to white-blond perfection...
...pushed forward the musical style of many of its members from the keyboardist, Alex Zander Gordon 04, who learned to play fewer notes and be funkier, to Scheuer, who has had to meld his rock and roll background into the spirit of funk. The band is full of jazz musicians who play funk and funk musicians who play jazz, he says. Its about listening and adaption of music for the good of the group...
...second encore consisted of “Spring Wonders,” another Rachmoninoff work which, despite his flourishing runs on the piano, Thibaudet had allegedly learned the day before. Fleming then showcased some of her jazz repertoire—she has previously been featured on a jazz album, Two Worlds—with a new rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” Fleming attempted a lot with Judy Garland’s classic, but crossing genres with such a popular song is always fraught with peril. In the future, Fleming would be wise to choose...
...operation, especially with 17 shows that each have their own personality. Weekdays, the schedule remains the same but switches DJs every day. Early mornings are home to the Coffeehouse, a haven for acoustic folk and rock. The rest of each weekday features world music, jazz, reggae, rock and hip-hop. Weekends are home to even more varied programming, ranging from kids’ music on “The Playground” to metal and hardcore on “Nasty Habits...
...different culture [Mexico], I thought that I could add to the music collection, or bring in music to play by people I’ve met at home,” she says. Some students like O’Dette and Matt Morrell, coordinator for “Jazz Oasis,” even came to Emerson College because of the quality of WERS programs he listened to from home in Randolph, Mass. “I listened to the station in high school, and I knew that radio is what I want to do for a living...