Word: jazzing
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Each squad performs a lively, two-minute routine that incorporates three different styles of dance--jazz, pom and funk...
...DIED. CHARLES TRENET, 87, flamboyant French singer whose poetical lyrics and jazz-influenced tunes defined French popular music for a generation; near Paris. He started singing in music halls in the 1930s, then went on to write almost 1,000 songs over a six-decade career. His best-known hit was the haunting La Mer, recorded in nearly 4,000 different versions. Although he announced his retirement in 1975, he released a last CD in 1995 and gave three sell-out concerts...
Monson plans to teach courses that look at the way that music interacts with race, culture, and politics. These types of courses would cover topics such as jazz history, music politics and popular music...
Professor Monson won the Sonneck Society's 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for best book in American music for her 1996 Saying Something, Jazz Improvisation and Interaction...
From his early days in Miles Davis' quintet to his groundbreaking work with the rap trio A Tribe Called Quest, Ron Carter is the rare bassist who propels music as much with his ideas as his skills. On this, his first album-length experiment with Latin jazz, Carter realizes that others have come before him, so rather than beat the congas to a pulp, his expert quartet, featuring ace percussionist Steve Kroon, flirts with them. Latin classics like Besame Mucho and Corcovado are splendidly reworked into disciplined, mid-tempo jazz tunes, while samba-flavored Carter originals Loose Change...