Word: jazzing
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...long, storing the jewel-toned jars in their wine racks, and they're currently on track to put up about 10,000 lbs. of locally grown San Marzano plum tomatoes for use this winter. Ever economical, Pascal and Schott also dip into leftover canning liquid, especially from fruits, to jazz up cocktails at the bar. Months ago, they put up nectarines with star anise, cloves and Cointreau - they'll have the fruit to serve all winter, while the remaining infused Cointreau can be mixed with top-shelf tequila at the bar to make their Red-Headed Stepchild cocktail...
...throws a party like a couple of cats with a sax, or at least so the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival musicians seem to prove. The eighth annual jazz festival, which kicked off this Thursday night, features internationally renowned artists, an eclectic, vibrant crowd, and an array of food from around the world. It’s a party that 70,000 people were projected to attend, some for the jazz, some for the revelry. “It started out as a small block party,” Berklee publicist Nick Balkin said. “Now it?...
Wright taught himself how to play piano (and several other instruments) as a jazz-mad child growing up in London, and brought a sense of improvisation to the R&B group he formed with school friends Roger Waters and Nick Mason. When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism. After Barrett left the group because of mental instability and was replaced by Gilmour, the cohesiveness at the core was never quite the same. Waters seized creative control and reportedly threatened not to release...
...those who haven't heard them, Jarreau's swooping melody lines and improvisational growls, grunts and inflections can verge on startling. Perhaps more than any popular vocalist alive, he embodies the notion of the voice as a pure instrument. "When he gets into a flat-out jazz setting," says Heckman, "he lets it all hang out. And when he gets into one of his extended scat solos on something like Take Five, even the instrumentalists' mouths drop open...
...from the 1980s TV series of the same name, starring Cybil Shepherd and Bruce Willis). He also performed on the 1985 USA for Africa charity recording We Are the World. But none of Jarreau's 20 albums or 23 singles have cracked the U.S. Top 10. "When people hear 'jazz singer,' they tend to approach with a little nervousness," he says, "because some jazz has put a bit of distance between the performer and audience...