Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kendall M. Jones
One of the most recent meetings between the President and a group of corporate chiefs was in March, and it went poorly. General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy and Du Pont's Shapiro, among others, were brought to the White House with what they thought...
Jones sings of such capers in a musky voice that slides across the lyrics, scatting between them and eliding words in vintage hipster style, as if English were a foreign language learned in a speed-speech course. For slow learners, lyrics are printed on the back of the album, and...
Communication during the production of the album was something of a scattershot affair. Producers Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman brought Jones into the recording studio, corralled some of the best musicians in town to play behind her, invested four or five patient months until the album was done. "Lenny and...
He may not know about what Rickie Lee calls "extensive education in music at home." Born in Chicago, hard by Wrigley Field, the third child of a couple "in the restaurant business" (which, from the ironic Jones argot, translates as "waiter and waitress"), Rickie Lee had a vagabond childhood. Her...