Word: jazzing
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...Boone. Catering to all tastes and talents, this five-day down-home extravaganza, May 3-7, features a food and crafts fair with homemade wares from applesauce and pastries to quilts and Barbie-doll dresses; a 10-km footrace; a pro-am golf tournament; a three-ring circus; jazz, bluegrass and country music; and a 3 1/2-hour parade with 50 high school marching bands...
...Most of all, though, there's the impossibly supple jazz. Every word in the film is sung. Every word: both the reliable arias of love and the tiny trivial moments that most musicals always forget. There's a great moment when a character is interrupted mid-sentence by a man asking directions--in tune, of course, with the jaunty melody. The effect is startling and a little humorous at first, but after a while you forget the novelty. Instead, you have the majesty of a truly great film score, with undulating chords that shimmer gloriously...
...quite imagine how the project got off the ground; who would fund an idiosyncratic collaboration between untested Nouvelle Vague director Jacques Demy and French jazz composer Michel Legrand? Chalk it up to the experimental spirit of the '60s or the audacious spirit of the French New Wave. But what has emerged is unlike any other dated document of the time. It's astonishing how fresh it remains. It's like a fantastic kiss--it never gets old. Even the first time I watched the movie (with a smile of such shocking wideness that my roommates thought I'd gotten married...
...Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is in a unique position among musicians. This Boston native is one of the most virtuosic jazz performers alive today, and yet it seems as though he'd do much better at almost any other profession. He has a greater narrative sense than nearly every other musician on the market and his compositions can reach heights of lyricism unparalleled in contemporary jazz...
...eclectic background to make this work of solo piano pieces worthy of serious listening, not just aural wallpaper for wine-and-cheese parties. A piano prodigy and student of classical Eastern music, Sakamoto had a brief fling as a Japanese rock star in the 1980s and dabbled in jazz before turning to Hollywood (where his sublime score for The Last Emperor brought him an Oscar). Like all his work, BTTB ("Back to the Basics") searches for common ground in classical, pop and Eastern music. More often than not in this CD of unaccustomed beauty, he finds...