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...Every step counts in popularizing jazz,” Aryeh Gold-Parker ’12—a member of the Harvard Jazz Band— said in an email...
...effort to bring more of a jazz presence to Harvard’s campus, the Office for the Arts’ (OFA) Harvard Jazz Program and the Harvard Jazz Bands will organize a tribute concert for James Moody, the saxophonist who was recently named the 2010 Harvard University Jazz Master in Residence. Moody’s broad scope of works, both old and new, will be the focus of the event “Moody’s Moods: The Music of James Moody” in Sanders Theater...
Although Moody will not be in attendance at the tribute concert while he recovers from his recent gall bladder surgery, his contemporary Jimmy Heath, who has played with other notable jazz musicians such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane, will be performing in Moody’s place and accepting the honor on his behalf...
Heath will perform a new arrangement of Moody’s 2005 composition “Moody’s Groove,” which was commissioned for the concert by the Harvard Jazz Bands. Along with Heath, saxophonist Bill Pierce from the Berklee College of Music will also be featured at the concert...
...latest sign of change, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya in 37 years hosted 100 Libyan women at his house one February evening for the first American cultural event in decades. American singers shimmied across the stage in tight dresses, belting out Broadway show tunes like "All That Jazz" and "New York." "For years this place was Slumberland," says Sami Zaptia, a Libyan business consultant in Tripoli. "Now everyone wants to get on the Libya gravy train." (See "After 37 Years, the U.S. Arrives to Do Business in Libya...