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Then George Wein, director of the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City, asked Horne to do a Strayhorn evening, and she agreed. "I thought, 'Well, Billy was my great friend,' and I've only had about four friends because I don't trust anybody. It's probably because as a child I got farmed out a lot, all over the South." After weeks of anxious rehearsals, Horne hit the stage of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center last year and received a standing ovation. Prodded by a record producer, she returned to the studio...
HELEN MERRILL: CHRISTMAS SONG BOOK (JVC). The vocal event of the season and just possibly the best new jazz vocal album of the year. Merrill, a singer in the great tradition of June Christy and Chris Connor, comes to the Christmas party using the eloquent arrangements of Torrie Zito to bring some fresh feeling to standards (such as White Christmas) and offers up a few surprises (tunes by Claude Thornhill and Thad Jones...
...legal problems fall away, worldwide sales have jumped forward. Industry sources in Japan estimate that nearly 100,000 DAT decks made by Sony, JVC and others were sold in 1990 -- up from 60,000 in the previous three years combined. "We sold out of the home units," says Arnie Shurofsky of New York City's Grand Central Radio. "And we can't wait to get the Walkman. That's what's going to push DAT into the mass market...
Matsushita is cautious but forward looking. The company has never had Sony's cosmopolitan polish, yet it was Matsushita's subsidiary JVC that developed the original VHS video technology in 1976. Tanii, then the youthful chief of Matsushita's fledgling VCR division, convinced his superiors that consumers would choose VHS over Sony's Betamax if they could also buy compatible videotaped entertainment...
...movement is also a lifesaver for club owners and festival producers, promising them new audiences and exciting artists at a time when older, long- established stars are disappearing from the scene. George Wein, who produces the Newport, JVC, Boston Globe and New Orleans festivals, calls the advent of charismatic young players like Marsalis "not only good for jazz but absolutely necessary...