Word: jazzman
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...exactly, though the distinction eludes Wired. Professionally, Belushi was a gifted TV sketch artist who found the wide-screen format confining. Personally, he was a middle-class white kid with an anarchic urge to play the cool black jazzman -- so he partied and bullied and ODed just like his heroes. Early death was only the last piece of the legend this blues brother created for himself. In the film's one good laugh, a physician elicits Belushi's pharmaceutical history and then asks, deadpan, "Next of kin?" Belushi was delivered to his humongous family of fans, who mourned a talent...
...CEILING (Emarcy). This second volume of previously unreleased material shows off Garner's angular, driving, two-fisted piano at its best. His dazzling improvisations breathe new life into well-worn standards like It Had to Be You and show why, twelve years after his death, this legendary jazzman remains in a class...
...than enough to earn them an odd coupling of both jazz and gospel prizes. They are also up for six Gospel Music Association awards next month. The sextet appeared out of nowhere in 1988 with an impeccable debut album (titled Take 6) that inspired hallelujahs from the likes of jazzman Quincy Jones. Coming up in 1989: a second album, a video with Stevie Wonder, a 36-date tour with Al Jarreau, album backup for Johnny Mathis and a sound-track tune for filmmaker Spike...
Clint Eastwood' s Bird finds the right blue notes for jazzman Charlie Parker. -- Sigourney Weaver illuminates Gorillas in the Mist...
...biographical films, soon to be released, will limn the twin toxicities of heroin and pop celebrity. Bird is Clint Eastwood's meditation on the pioneering jazzman junkie Charlie Parker; Wired adapts Bob Woodward's book about the life and drug-induced death of John Belushi. Both movies fit a familiar genre: a star is born, a star falls into the black hole of self- abuse, a star dies. But a third drug-and-alcohol drama, Clean and Sober, which opened last week to generous reviews, goes for the grit without the name- dropping glamour. It has eyes...