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Allen also recorded a trio album for Blue Note last year, Twenty one. On this album, Allen is heard accompanied by--and sometimes struggling with--the deafening racket of grand masters Ron Carter and Tony Williams on bass and drums, respectively. For some reason, the producer of Twenty One, Teo Macero (who produced all of the great Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk albums on Columbia) ,chose to have an incredibly bass-heavy mix, which, coupled with Williams's tooth-rattling cymbal crashes, threatens to drown out the subtleties of Allen's phrasing and unique harmonic conception. It is to Allen...
...national title match a year earlier between these two heated rivals, That match, which the Crimson pulled out 5-4 in matches by virtue of a thrilling, come from behind 3-2 game victory by Ben-Shachar, went down in squash annals as one for the ages--comparable in racket history to the 1981 BorgMcEnroe Wimbledon Final...
...still, there are quibbles. Why a whole ground floor without any place to hang a picture or put a sculpture? Of course, museums think they have to sell tons of souvenirs, T shirts, replicas and cultural-tourist boutique stuff; it's like the religious-kitsch racket in Lourdes or Jerusalem. The entrance foyer duly gives onto the shop and a meeting room and a children's art studio and a conference theater; the architect calls the foyer an internal piazza, but its main use is probably for giving parties-just as, in New York City, the giant glass hangar containing...
...Keep wrists in a neutral position -- not twisted or strained -- at the keyboard. The same applies to other activities such as holding a steering wheel, a tennis racket or a pencil...
Sports Illustrated had caught wind of her exploits and featured her in its Faces in the Crowd section. ESPN had named her a Scholastic Sports America Scholarship Finalist. The Prince Racket Company voted her a National High School All-American...