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...aviatress who can not fly (Ben K. Kawaller ’07), a playboy musician (Justin V. Rodriguez ’07), a sexy marine biologist (Peter A. Dodd ’06), and sultry genie Juana Rubme (David J. Andersson ’09), to the pot, and it is pretty hard to single out the culprit...
...using Duchamp, because my class is specifically about music. But I use John Cage. Cage was enamoured of Duchamp and his work, and they played chess together every day.” To many of us, the return to academia after a ten-year stint as a freewheeling musician might seem incongruous. And indeed, although Krukowski looks back with fondness at his time at Harvard, he freely admits that, as a graduate student, he disliked the teaching. Yet, it only takes a few minutes of conversation to see his genuine enthusiasm for art’s more bookish side...
...didn’t want the tense issues of race in music to be left under the table. They seemed so central to what the jazz ethos was all about, how the musical language came about.” As an American woman of European descent, a musician, and an academic, she has a unique position to highlight numerous tensions in the study of jazz. Monson first came to Harvard in 1999 as a visiting professor, and then returned to a permanent position in 2001 as chair of the music department. In her critical writing and in her classes...
DIED. RAY BARRETTO, 76, Grammy-winning "godfather" of Latin jazz; in Hackensack, N.J. Renowned for integrating the conga into jazz, he decided to become a musician after hearing a Dizzy Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...
...police,” should play a law enforcement stoolie. Worse, his character echoes the worst tendencies of the bourgeois ethos: he abandons his creative endeavors to become more fiscally successful. “Barbershop” is a complete repudiation of everything that Cube stood for as a musician. When did the self-described “nigga you love to hate” become so thoroughly inoffensive...