Word: jazzing
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...Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau travels with giants. In the introspective and eloquent liner notes to his new album, Places (Warner Bros.), he writes of the chronic, insatiable longing he suffers for distant lands and offers a melancholy quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The sad self, unrelenting...that I fled from...My giant goes with me wherever...
...Viewed in the context of Black music in America over the past century, there's nothing surprising about hip-hop "crossing over." Blues and jazz crossed over in the 1920s, when whites rushed to Harlem to hear the music. In the 1930s, jazz became - for whites - "swing." When Black musicians created something called bebop (a clear antecedent for hip-hop) in the 1940s, that too crossed over as whites gravitated toward the language, fashion, attitude and music of hip cats like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. And I think most people today are clear that it was artists like Louis...
...would have had the most attentive health care as he neared the end of his battle with prostate cancer. The former lawyer was being treated in two of the best hospitals in New York City. He wasn't fabulously wealthy; he had devoted most of his time to producing jazz records, which aren't big moneymakers. But at age 69, Cummins had a nest...
Cummins, too, improved. He and his wife were able to meet the emotional challenges of terminal illness without the physical demands of agony. They listened to jazz; she offered spiritual guidance; they continued to decorate their East Harlem apartment with mosaics. "The quality of my life definitely improved," Cummins said, "and that goes hand in hand with prolonging it." Even his oncologist enthusiastically welcomed Shaiova's pain treatment. "He's happy about it," Cummins said. "He's a great doctor, but he's just not trained in pain management...
...long as it requires people to abandon hope of full recovery, hospice is unlikely to become a mainstream phenomenon. Most people want to fight, hang on, hope for a miracle. Recently, Cummins, the jazz producer, heard that he could qualify for a clinical trial. He knew the trial carried only a remote possibility of a cure, but he didn't want to give up. Even so, when he and Nancy totaled the cost of his pain medications--$2,250 a month--they were presented with a cruel choice: opt for hospice to save money, or go for the trial...