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Haden's most recent album with his Quartet West, the ravishing The Art of Song (Verve), is a lyrical excursion across a landscape that embraces classical music (Rachmaninoff's Moment Musical), folk (Wayfaring Stranger), American popular song (Kern's In Love in Vain) and contemporary jazz (Jeri Southern's Theme for Charlie and Haden's own Ruth's Waltz). The only thing these disparate pieces have in common is Haden's singular vision, his insistence that this music beats with a single heart that pulses as steadily as his bass swings...
Campus telecom offices act in students' best interests, says Jeri A. Semer, executive director of the Association for Telecommunications Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), of which Harvard is a member...
...However, Jeri Belafka, who manages special functions at the club assured the Commission that music and other activities would be held at reasonable noise levels and would be confined to the first floor and basement areas of the club...
...neon lights blinking off and on in the night." Haunted Heart's 12 pieces range from new compositions by Haden and pianist Alan Broadbent to reworkings of standards by Parker, Bud Powell and Glenn Miller to -- most surprisingly and, perhaps, most inventively -- three period vocals by Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern and Jo Stafford, copied straight from Haden's 5,000-volume record collection. The songs flow seamlessly out of Quartet West's instrumental excursions, and the effect is closer to magic than nostalgia, like climbing into a Studebaker convertible that rolls out of the fog, letting it take you away...