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...have said you aim to swing like a jazz musician in every performance. How did you find your rhythm playing a professor who gardens? Jazz is classical American music, and [tutor] Larabee's a classical dude. The methods he uses to teach Akeelah, like keeping time while jumping rope and banging on a watering can, are all pretty swinging...
Harvard isn’t usually synonymous with rockin’ out—but the College is hoping a rock musician will help liven up its social scene next academic year...
...album’s sole flirtation with hard rock, is produced to within an inch of its life: it has more bleeps and blips than the “Lost in Space” robot—but not nearly as much personality. Prince is a legendarily gifted musician, so it’s a shame that he limits his sonic palate to drum machines and synthesizers on so many of the record’s cuts. The songs that really take off on “3121” are those where the Prince lets the NPG cut loose...
DIED. EUGENE LANDY, 71, psychologist-guru who treated the depressed, drug-addled Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson with a controversial round-the-clock form of therapy that spurred the musician's comeback in the early '80s; in Honolulu. In 1989 Landy surrendered his license for two years after a state board found him grossly negligent for conduct including improperly prescribing drugs for Wilson. After the settlement of a suit against him by Wilson's family, Landy was barred from contacting the rocker, who often insisted that Landy "saved my life...
...always has way more energy when he gets back.” But moving up in the music world may require pushing back his academic plans. “I will eventually graduate,” he says. “But if I really want to be a musician, I’ve got to go with the opportunities that arrive.” Still, despite all his success Eskenazi remains humble. “I wouldn’t call myself a rock star,” he says, “but you can if you want...