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...bands like Phoenix and Air aren’t as popular in their home country as they are overseas. And it’s not as if Parisians are just too impolite, too hostile, to support local groups. In fact, they’re a little too nice. Jazz, no matter its quality, gets standing ovations. And at a show by British dance outfit Hot Chip (pronounced by the Francophones around me as “Haute Sheep,” which I think is probably a better name), the Parisian crowd was anything but rude, cheering after every song...
...care about football: like all great fiction, the show merely uses its central conceit as a springboard. You also don’t have to dumb yourself down for the seemingly corny plot threads of the early episodes, as the show handles well-worn set-ups like a great jazz musician taking on the standards. With a brilliant cast of virtual unknowns, stunning cinematography, and a surprisingly appropriate instrumental-rock soundtrack, this little-show-that-could is set to really come into its own. As the Dillon Panthers say before each game, “Clear eyes, full hearts, can?...
...Broadly—punk, post punk, classic rock, jazz, acid jazz, house, drum and bass, the dulcet sounds of my roommate pleasuring his girlfriend...
...Charles Mingus play when you were in the White House. Are you still a jazz fan? -Gary Robinson, Moreno Valley, Calif. That was the best jazz concert the White House has ever seen. Whenever we visit New Orleans or St. Louis or Chicago, we go out of our way to attend a jazz concert or nightclub...
...reception marked not only a new relationship between Harvard’s president and black community, but also one among members of that community. In the dim light of the pub, students in bow ties mingled with professors in suits, while administrators from different schools sipped drinks together. A jazz singer crooned in the background. “There hasn’t been such a gathering in my years,” said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who has worked in Harvard’s Memorial Church since 1970. But the living wasn?...