Word: jazzing
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Hank Williams? He's on the juke box, singing about long country roads and broken hearts, and there is Charlie Parker, the man who turned jazz inside out as if he'd just pulled it through the sleeve of his coat, listening. Entranced. A bystander asks Bird to explain what he's doing paying such close attention to music that is so beyond--no, beneath--the jazz horizon. Parker has an easy answer. "Listen to the stories," he says, and keeps on listening...
...massive series Ken Burns and his associates have shaped into some 17 1/2 hours of Jazz is full of stories, this one and hundreds of others, all setting out with passionate deliberation, and occasional anger, the history of America's finest, proudest indigenous music. Its 75 interviews, 2,400 still photographs, more than 2,000 film excerpts and over 500 pieces of supernal music are spread across 10 episodes, which will take up a good deal of the primest time PBS can spare from Jan. 8, when the first segment will air, to the last day of the month, when...
...years old, some 55 million viewers, more than half the nation's television audience, tuned in to the fourth airing of the Emmy award-winning animated television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the popularity of which confounded network executives who had predicted that its cartoon format, melancholy jazz score by Vincent Guaraldi and simple retelling of the Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke would alienate the public. That same night, a musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," was playing to sold-out houses in its second season on Broadway; and a feature-length animated film...
...extraordinary ability to take complex issues and present them simply, and the capacity in cross-examination to go in whichever direction the witness requires. Jeff Blattner, a Deputy Assistant Attorney General who worked with him on the Microsoft case, calls Boies' ability to improvise in the courtroom "pure jazz." During that trial, when a frustrated Microsoft witness complained that Boies was ambushing him with trick questions, Boies actually promised to raise his hand before he asked another one. And there you see it in the trial transcript, five questions later, following a seemingly innocuous query: "[Counsel raises hand.]" And just...
...JAMES CARTER Chasin' the Gypsy (Atlantic). This tribute to Django Reinhardt offers more than covers of the Gypsy guitarist's songs. Carter also serves up involving originals inspired by Reinhardt and, in doing so, establishes himself as one of the premiere saxophonists in jazz. The chase is on, and Carter is closing...