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When asked about a specific album recorded in 1969, Taylor somehow managed to turn the conversation into an expose on the insidious linkage between Ronald Reagan's presidency and the fame of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Asked about his practice regimen, Taylor simply answered, "Trance."
7. Wynton Marsalis and Cassandra Wilson
Blood on the Fields. Marsalis' lush, undulating jazz composition, performed at Lincoln Center this April and broadcast on National Public Radio, captured the pain of American slavery in piercing trumpet peals and the joy of liberation in the playful bleats of trombones. The three-hour big-band piece featured singer...
Assigning a single starting date for an upsurge in creativity is an exercise in arbitrariness: the year 1987 will do as well as any. That was when August Wilson's Fences premiered on Broadway and Toni Morrison published her masterpiece, Beloved. Both would receive Pulitzer Prizes. In that same year...
"When the President has problems passing his bills in Congress, he should threaten them with one hour of his sax playing. Then he would have no problems with filibustering. What he lacks in skill, talent, imagination, technique and swing, he more than makes up for with desire and hustle." -- Jazz...