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Sinatra has always occupied a gray area between jazz and pop. The small group setting here--vibraphonist Red Norvo's quintet plus longtime Sinatra pianist Bill Miller--frees him to the extent that on some numbers his sense of swing and invention approaches Ella Fitzgerald's joyous, ineluctable pulse (and justifies Capitol's releasing this find on its Blue Note jazz subsidiary). With I've Got You Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn...
Available soon in the jazz-to-die-for genre, A Very Still Life, a CD featuring the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Don't expect "horribly morbid stuff," warns Resist Records owner Chad Williams, who says Kevorkian's compositions are "upbeat." Backed by the Morpheus Quintet, the doctor improvises on flute. Some of the proceeds, if any, will fund an assisted-suicide clinic...
DIED. TONY WILLIAMS, 51, splashy, polyrhythmic jazz drummer; of a heart attack; in Daly City, California. Tapped by Miles Davis to join his legendary quintet in 1963, Williams was a master at blending jazz with styles from blues to classical. His 1969 band, Lifetime, pioneered jazz-rock fusion...
...200th anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth. This Friday, at 8:00 pm, the Apple Hill Chamber Players of New Hampshire will be performing a special all-Schubert Valentine's Day concert in the Longy School's Edward Pickman Concert Hall. Their program will feature the famous "Trout" Quintet in A (Op. 114, D. 667) and other pieces. The Longy School itself is presenting a four-month celebration of the master of the lieder which kicked off on Jan. 31 but is continuing through May. All events are free and open to the public. Some of the upcoming highlights...
Imagine that the chirpy pop singers New Kids on the Block (now defunct) were all pretty, young British women. Hold that rather perverted idea and you've got the Spice Girls, an all-female pop-vocal quintet out of London. Their debut CD, Spice, has topped the charts in Britain and captured audiences in France, Italy, Japan, Australia and almost every other country where there are young girls and young boys who like looking at young girls...