Word: mellower
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...DIED. ELLIS LARKINS, 79, jazz pianist best known as Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist on the albums Ella Sings Gershwin and Songs in a Mellow Mood; in Baltimore. Larkins, who began his career as a classical music child prodigy, brought to jazz an elegant, measured approach that contrasted with the wild exuberance of many of his contemporaries...
...former trade unionist who used to hit the campaign trail looking like the late Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead) has even trimmed his beard and begun wearing suits. "Today I'm more aware, more prepared, more mellow," Lula said in a TIME interview. "That radical PT doesn't exist anymore...
...freakin’ game starts. She is joined by Merritt R. Baer ’06, who is a born Saturday night leader. “I follow the smell of alcohol over the sound of music,” she explains. The Quincy scene at 10:30 is mellow at best, despite the incessant and spurned invitations from the classy hockey jocks of room 605 (“Laaaadiiiieees, come on in!”). Fortunately, the trip to Quincy is not in vain, as it yields the company of two older men, Michael B. Firestone...
Beck took a low offer from DGC (now Interscope), because it allowed him to record on the side with independent labels and gave him complete artistic freedom. As his subsequent albums bounded between the accessible (Odelay, Mellow Gold) and the avant-garde (Stereopathetic Soulmanure, Mutations), artistic freedom and experimentation became his shtick. It's an inherited trait. His grandfather Al Hansen was a member of the European artists' collective Fluxus, which specialized in Dadaist performance pieces. But Beck draws inspiration from contemporary sources too. "Brando was in some movie"--1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau--"where...
...urban centers in search of a slower-paced and less profit-oriented lifestyle. Opened in 1999 by two disaffected Bangkok advertising execs, All About Coffee must be one of the coolest caf?s in Thailand. None of the large Western coffeehouse chains can compete with its homespun, rustic-wood ambiance, mellow jazz sounds and delightfully personalized service. Not to mention a three-course breakfast for $1.50, a selection of 28 reasonably priced coffee drinks from the banana espresso shake to a classic cappuccino (made from local and imported beans), a large range of herbal teas and scrumptious desserts (including a sinfully...