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...with no musical training, he found himself swept into the world of glam-rock fame as a member of Roxy Music. Back then it was the feather boas, leopard-skin jacket and makeup that caught the eye, but what's lasted longer are Eno's abnormal squawks of processed sax and early synthesizer that punctuate the magnificent romp of tracks like Do the Strand. Many British fans never forgave Eno when he split from Roxy Music after just two albums and headed off into musical outer space. But in New York City they came to adore...
...Richard Nixon it was the Checkers Speech. For Bill Clinton it was a sunglasses-and-sax appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. Desperate political times call for desperate measures, and in the case of California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, that time is now. With only seven days until the election, he trails Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by as many as 18 points in the most recent polls...
...luxuries, mailboxes were little more than garbage cans, and the way forward was along unmarked roads gouged with potholes. There was jazz - the Costa do Sol, at the end of [an error occurred while processing this directive] Maputo's Sunset Boulevard, the Avenida de Marginal, was serving up sax and prawns long before an AK-47 made it onto the Mozambican flag - but to get there you had to cling to the back of a pickup truck with another 40 wide-eyed souls. Today, you can travel in style, in a chauffeur-driven, mint-green-and-chrome '50s-style...
...former taxi drivers' restroom on Gerrard Street in London's Soho was the first home to young tenor sax player Ronnie Scott's jazz club, which he founded in 1959 and hoped would rival those he'd visited on New York City's 52nd Street. By the time the club moved in 1965 to slightly larger premises round the corner at 47 Frith Street, Ronnie Scott's had become a British home away from home for American hardboppers like Zoot Sims, Dexter[an error occurred while processing this directive] Gordon and Sonny Stitt. And it's been known simply...
...was already a superb band, featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...