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...COURTNEY PINE: THE VISION'S TALE (Island/Antilles). Young (24), gifted, black and British, saxman Courtney Pine is his country's most popular jazz performer. His third album, a mix of standards and originals, shows off a controlled lyricism and two different voices: wailing and reedy on soprano, muzzy and funky on tenor. But Pine's stylish man at the piano, Ellis Marsalis, almost steals the album...
...about the good doctor either (one of Longhair's foremost disciples, the winner of a 1990 Grammy Award for a duo jazz vocal and a kind of living archive of musical history). Just sit back and watch Dr. John work his way through the likes of C.C. Rider and Pine Top Boogie. You may not be able to play the tunes when the videotape's over -- it takes a pretty advanced pianist even to follow the Doc's fingering -- but you will have got a graduate course in soul. (Homespun Tapes, Box 694, Woodstock...
...Texas' pine-covered Eastern District, where failed thrifts are about as common as pickup trucks, U.S. Attorney Robert Wortham has a problem. Some 30 financial institutions have already gone belly-up or come under Government supervision; 59 more are under investigation for fraud. But Wortham, with a team of five FBI agents, doesn't have the manpower needed to unravel the bankers' dastardly deeds. "I've begged. I've pleaded. I've complained up the ladder," said Wortham at a hearing last week before the House Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee. "I could ask my mother...
...proceeds of the benefit will be evenly divided between The Pine Street Inn, a Cambridge homeless shelter, and Casa Myrna Vasquez, a shelter for battered women and children, the director of the foundation said...
...state of Wisconsin arranges for what-is-now-known-as a Holiday Tree, which rises up from the floor into the great empty space below the dome. The tree is remarkably ugly. Not originally of course; it was clearly, when in the buff in stark Wisconsin nature, a fine pine of northern stock; but they had taken this poor tree and given it a cosmopolitan makeover which completely concealed the fact that 'twas ever a nat'ral-born tree, free and proud...