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...traditional white-tie tuxes, give a laid-back ’40s and ’50s vibe to all their proceedings. Evan D. Siegel ’07 took full advantage of his rich, full voice to convey a longing and sadness in his performance of the Thelonius Monk jazz classic “Round Midnight,” setting the pace for the entire set. Though obviously well rehearsed and harmonized, for a typical undergraduate familiar with Top 40 music like me, their classic set tended to be less attention grabbing than the Lowkeys?...
Shooting mostly in California, with a few locations in Japan (including a Kyoto temple whose head monk granted access because he was a fan of Chicago), Marshall got beautiful performances from his cast. Suzuka Ohgo, as the young Chiyo, brings an elfin gravity to the first 40 minutes of the film. Zhang, 26, blossoms persuasively from a girl of 15 to a woman in her early 30s, and Watanabe lends his warmth and regal machismo to the Chairman. But it's Gong Li, in a Bette Davis bitch-goddess role, who strides away with the picture. Her stiletto stare...
...like a lot a band called Tuxedo Moon, the Gang of Four. I like The Fall. I like jazz in terms of Eric Dolphy, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk...
...divine, and his decent and sincere commitment to a life of goodness was undone by his distrust of goody-goodness. Yet he never stopped trying: during the war he joined the Quakers in Pennsylvania, helping refugees. Later, returning to Hollywood, he lived for two years as a monk, escaping now and then to friends' houses as "a haven of peace after the tumults of monastic life." How "delightful religion used to be," he notes, "in the days when I wasn't doing anything particular about...
...cliché most often used when talking about a great jazz performance is that the players were “telepathic.” The word does apply here, as in any discussion of improvisational masters, but Monk and Coltrane are clearly separate entities, their geniuses reverberating off each other...