Word: musicianse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is easier to identify the measures that are used to foster respect for authority and the status quo than to determine how to encourage resistance to such pressures. However, I believe that expecting a Harvard education to inculcate a spirit of nonconformity is futile. Resistance is better promoted on...
And there is no greater hub than Harvard, through which the world's most prominent citizens routinely pass. Harvard's library system offers unparalleled facilities for browsing and research. Walking through Harvard Square on a balmy evening, listening to street musicians and observing the variety of people, it is hard...
Still, in the late '50s, Jones experienced the difficulties of poverty. A group of 30 musicians whom he had taken on tour was stranded without money in Europe, leaving the musician who had such a promising youth contemplating suicide.
"I think his sense of arrangement, his work with Count Basie and Duke Ellington...were very thick productions with lots of orchestration," says Lee Mergner, associate publisher of Jazz Times. "But later he was able to bring big band into the pop framework. He is truly one of those musicians...
Jones' success as a producer today rests in part on his ability to keep himself mentally and physically in step with much younger musicians.