Word: quintets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon continued with joyful singing and dancing as a quintet struck polyrhythmic beats on conga drums and calabash gourds wrapped in beads...
...getting veklempt. I'll give you a topic. Sweet Honey in the Rock is neither a food product nor a rock band. Discuss. Actually, its an all-female African American quintet that performs music with black church roots, like spirituals, hymns, gospel, jazz and blues. Check out their 25th Anniversary Concert Tour tonight. 8 p.m., Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston, 266-1200. Tickets...
Last winter the southern California rap-metal quintet Limp Bizkit was just another scuffling young band that had probably spent too much time listening to its Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine albums. This summer Bizkit is basking in the kind of major exposure any new group would trade its nose rings for: a slot on the Ozzfest concert tour, an appearance on MTV's Spring Break, airplay on tastemaking KROQ radio in Los Angeles and a debut album, Three Dollar Bill, Y'All, that cracked the Billboard...
...magic of numbers, the illusion of intimacy. More exotic creatures are on display in the 20-min. safari ride than would likely be seen on a week's trek through Africa: okapis, nyalas, zebras, giraffes, ostriches, Thompson gazelles, hippos and a quintet of eland that your driver must stop for as they cross the bumpy road. And thanks to feeding stations hidden in tree bogs, the animals will usually be grazing in view. Thus Animal Kingdom solves the dilemma of the modern zoo: how to keep animals out of cages but still on more or less predictable display...
DIED. STEPHANE GRAPPELLI, 89, exuberant jazz violinist; in Paris. Grappelli started out as a pianist for silent films but switched to strings for the swing standards he loved. America had Ellington, but Europe got the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in the 1930s--the chamber group-cum-jazz ensemble that featured Grappelli and guitarist Django Reinhardt. The quintet broke up during World War II, but Grappelli played on--recording more than 100 albums...