Word: jazzing
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There can be. I grew up singing jazz standards, so I connect to interpreting a song. But I still feel better singing...
...can’t all be blamed on the party of Lincoln,” Marsalis howls. “The left and the right have got the country stinkin’.” Marsalis is already a controversial musician, facing resentment in the jazz community from those who think he disrespects more modern currents of contemporary jazz. The album will give these critics more to resent. The bold advance is the message, not the music. Beyond “Where Y’All At?,” the compositions don’t take untraveled roads. Marsalis...
...through the speakers, the dancers dropped their poles and put on sunglasses to begin a hip hop-inspired number. As the only group to represent Native American culture, the Harvard Intertribal Indian Dance Troupe beautifully showcased their heritage through song and dance. The dancers displayed great skill in ballet, jazz, and pow-wow styles, but the performance was equally eye-catching for its brightly colored costumes, which included silk shirts as well as embroidered shawls emblazoned with sequins. Next came the Kuumba Choir, one of the largest and most dynamic multicultural organizations on campus. With over 100 members, the singers...
...Shanghai, at a time when the "Paris of the East" was largely under the control of Western powers. With close to 4 million inhabitants, 1930s Shanghai was the fifth-largest city in the world and the most cosmopolitan place in China. To reflect the era's gin-and-jazz culture, Shanghai's architects turned their backs on the pompous colonial edifices of yesteryear and embraced the modern sophistication of Art Deco. It was a prolific but short-lived phenomenon. When Mao Zedong's communists seized control of the country in 1949, the clampdown on Shanghai's foreign influences was total...
DIED. Peggy Gilbert, 102, pioneering jazz saxophonist and bandleader of the 1920s, '30s and '40s who led her most recent band, the Dixie Belles, until she was in her 90s; in Burbank, Calif. As a jazz-obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later...