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Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and pianist Harry Connick Jr. came to Harvard to offer workshops and classes as part of the New Artists Series of the Learning from Performers program. The two jazz artists will continue meeting with interested students today...
After playing for a few minutes, the musicians listened to students play and critiqued their performances. Connick told one pianist, "Eliminate all grace notes--you sound like a ninny when you play like that," then sat down at the piano and showed a better way to handle the piece...
...Stones' current hiatus--and Richards has said in recent interviews that it is only a hiatus, not a permanent dissolution--gave Richards that opportunity. He assembled a crack band of studio musicians and impressive guests, including veteran studio guitarist Waddy Wachtel, star New Orleans pianist Ivan Neville, funkster bassist Bootsy Collins, Talking Heads keyboard sideman Bernie Worrell and E Street Band vocalist Patti Scialfa. Dubbed the X-Pensive Winos (Richards' comment on their salaries and drinking habits), these players have allowed the star to do things...
...from Cornell College, in Iowa, and earned an electrical-engineering degree from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He joined the Marines in 1972, and was selected as an astronaut in 1980. Hilmers was mission specialist on the first flight of the orbiter Atlantis five years later. Hilmers, a proficient pianist and an enthusiastic gardener, and his wife Lynn have two sons, Matthew, 12, and Daniel...
...never easy to compete with the memory of a legend, yet the revivers of Ain't Misbehavin' have set themselves that task twice over. Not only do they seek to match the exuberant spirit of Pianist-Songwriter Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, whose 1920s and '30s Harlem jazz inspired the pell-mell 31-tune revue, but they also contend with the joyous memory of the 1978 debut staging, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical, made a star of Nell Carter, and ran almost four years before becoming an Emmy-winning NBC special. Of course, the producers of this daring...