Word: quartetting
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...star on valve trombone ever since his glory days with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Brookmeyer also plays piano on the side--and it's more than just a hobby. On Holiday, his first all-piano album since 1959, he serves up five standards, six strong originals and a blues, performed in a blunt, bracing style full of sharp corners and spicy chords and often startlingly reminiscent of his no-nonsense horn playing. What took him so long? You don't need to be a full-time pianist to revel in the part-time playing of this switch-hitting jazz master...
...named Egor and a greyhound named Aladdin--not to mention the eight golden retrievers, four black Labs, two German shepherds and several mutts. Canine candy-striping--which began in the 1980s as just another recreational activity for patients, like clown visits to children's hospitals or barbershop-quartet appearances at nursing homes--has evolved into an important and fast-growing component of modern patient care...
...Pramoedya Ananta Toer, author of The Buru Quartet and The Mute's Soliloquy, is a former political prisoner
...opposite sides of the Thames, two shows display the variety of London theater: My Fair Lady, the hit musical revival at the Royal National, and The Shape of Things, Neil LaBute's spiky quartet that just opened for a four-week run at the Almeida at King's Cross. One is sumptuous and familiarly melodious, the other intimate and jarring. But both, really, tell the same story: a perfectionist with artistic temperament takes the challenge to turn a nobody into a socially attractive commodity. Like George Bernard Shaw and Lerner and Loewe before him, LaBute is updating the Greek myth...
...real blow to Republican clubs and Shriners everywhere who are now scrambling for replacement acts. But the passing of the a cappella group that also included GOP Senators Trent Lott and Larry Craig offers huge upside potential for Orrin Hatch: The Utah Senator was never invited into the quartet, but his dreamy spiritual hymns can now fill the vacuum of the post S-Squared...