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...trail-blazer in the emerging field of Web publishing and a father of two children on the verge of adolescence, Christopher Y. Ma '72 lives a life molded by the ideals of his generation...
...Ma is a long-time magazine editor and was recently named executive producer of washingtonpost.com--the on-line version of The Washington Post...
...jazz equivalent of stunt casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis protege, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway. Doc 's 91. The tunes here are standards, many of them--like Black and Blue--part of Louis Armstrong's repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one's suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times...
MUSIC . . . DOC CHEATHAM & NICHOLAS PAYTON: It?s the jazz equivalent of stunt casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis prot?g?, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway. Doc ?s 91. The tunes here, writes TIME?s Bruce Handy, are standards, many of them -- like Black and Blue -- part of Louis Armstrong?s repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one?s suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull...
Those struggles suffuse Hourglass (Columbia), Taylor's 17th original album, which will be released next week. The CD boasts an array of guest collaborators, including cellist Ma, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Shawn Colvin and Branford Marsalis. But it is vintage Taylor, blending ironic detachment with personal reflection. In Enough to Be on Your Way, the finest song on the album, he probes in part the death of his brother. During recent rehearsals with his band in Los Angeles, there was a long silence in the room every time he finished playing...