Word: jazzing
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...always seen himself as a split-personality sprinter. There's 200 Michael, who puts a hoop in his ear, turns the hip-hop up and gets into trash-talk wars with the very willing Greene. Then there's 400 Michael, who listens to jazz before a race and spends evenings answering e-mail from fans. With Mr. Hyde now sidelined, mellow Dr. Jekyll will have extra time in Sydney at his keyboard...
...Legacy division, which this week sends into the stores a boxed set of yet another remastering of the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of Louis Armstrong. The excuse? To help celebrate Louis Armstrong's 100th birthday, July 4, 2000, say the press materials. This is rather odd, since jazz scholars all agree that Armstrong was born Aug. 4, 1901. Odder still, the vaunted remastering is only slightly better than mediocre. So what is the fair-minded critic's response to all this...
...course--because any opportunity to draw attention to this hallowed music requires celebration. Originally recorded primarily in Chicago between 1925 and 1929 as what was then called race music, Armstrong's sessions with his Hot Five and Hot Seven bands quickly elevated him to national renown. They are to jazz (to American popular music in all forms, really) what Shakespeare's plays are to English literature: both the never fading banner of pure genius and the foundation for everything that came later...
...20th century. Then there's his rhythmic invention. On cuts like Muggles, Potato Head Blues and the epochal West End Blues, he breaks breathtakingly free from his sidemen, swooping and soaring over the ensemble like some brilliantly feathered bird. Such flights enable him to accomplish what every pop or jazz performer worth noting has tried ever since, personalizing the music, taking it away from the written score, making...
...liked both "Home of the perennially not-so-bad Utah Jazz" and "Utah: where U come first." And it seemed possible she'd use "where the water is as clean as our language." But the next night, just before she was to deliver her lines, she showed me her speech, which had been vetted by the Governor and Hatch. Full of platitudes about their education system, it was almost as dorky as North Dakota's bragging about having the country's "highest verbal and math SAT scores." I was hoping Montana would walk over and beat the crap...