Word: jazzman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long, black, asleep. Dreaming. A blacknuss man. A jazzman. He does not make music, but he listens. He does make causes, but he listens. A blacknuss man. Feeling that new black world a coming, its women, its bright new cleanliness, through the music. He had awakened and hugged her, this small black southern girl with whom he found himself enchanted. She was having a bad dream, and now it visits...
...introductions and interludes, Cleo knows precisely what is called for: she sings along with all the wordless instrumental agility of a clarinet cozying up to a sax. The man who plays sax to Cleo's clarinet is her arranger, conductor and husband, Johnny Dankworth, himself a leading British jazzman and composer...
...state of the angels." The outspoken Yevtushenko has bothered Russia's bosses for years, blessing and blaming with small regard to the Communist Party line. And he has not changed. In one part of his Armstrong's Trumpet he says, "A poet and a great jazzman are equal brothers in what they give the world." Soviet leaders, who frown upon both jazz and angels, have made no comment...
...announcing his return to work (TIME, July 12). His sudden death from heart failure ended a career that spanned the life of jazz. He emerged during its early days, became the first big star to shine in front of a combo. He paved the road over which virtually every jazzman of any importance would walk to fame thereafter...
Young, who grew up in Detroit writing blues songs, treats MC and his friends with a kind of reverence. At 31, he plainly agrees with Celebrated Jazzman Jo Jones, whom he quotes: "Music is not only a God-given talent; it is a God-given privilege to play music...