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...play is a delight. The story concerns a young man of the Japanese town Titipu, Nanki-Poo (Jonas A. Budris ’06), who tries to woo Yum-Yum (Annie E. Levine ’08) away from her fiancé Ko-Ko (W. Brian C. Polk ’09). Rather inconveniently, Ko-Ko also happens to be both Yum-Yum’s guardian and the Lord High Executioner of Titipu, with a quota to meet...
...that is slightly over-dependent on kick-line dancing. A particular standout is Polk’s Ko-Ko, whose every emotion plays itself out exaggeratedly across his face in complete keeping with the play’s nature. Also fantastic is Adam Goldenberg ’08 (who is also a Crimson columnist) as the haughty, money-grubbing official Pooh-Bah. As befits the character, he manages to seem both dignified and pathetic in each scene. The interactions between Ko-Ko and Pooh-Bah are easily the funniest parts of the show...
...During the Big Band era, drummers unobtrusively maintained a song's rhythm. As a founding father of the revolutionary genre of bebop, visionary bandleader Max Roach made percussion a star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter...
DEFINITION kon-flikt ko-ko n: Profits from the cocoa trade used to finance civil war in Africa's Ivory Coast...
...featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...