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When one thinks about Mike Clark and Joe Kross, one thinks not so much about their accomplishments on the football field, but more about all the things that haven't happened to them--the attention in the press they haven't received, the big showboat plays they haven't made and the "Coop Player of the Week" awards they haven...
...against the race barrier in the legal profession, and he took up acting in all-black shows in Harlem. There he caught the eye of a Broadway producer who hired him to star in a British production of "Showboat." From the early 1930s until the outbreak of World War II, Robeson lived with his wife in England, mixing with the British aristocracy and winning the hearts of audiences in cities all over Europe to whom he introduced for the first time the strange, soulful, moving experience of black folk music and spirituals...
...toughest, most durable jazz masters. Originally a follower of Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Woods has survived the ups and downs of decades of jazz with a personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods himself, and there is even a breathtaking moto perpetuo treatment of I'm Late from the Disney Alice in Wonderland...
With a plot complicated enough to confuse even the most well-connected in the audience and some songs which might leave Jerome Kern wondering if pieces of his Showboat ever floated into Cambridge, the exuberant cast of leading men has taken its annual sidestep into the Hasty Pudding Theater. Cardinal Knowledge, at least ostensibly, is about a cardinal trying to track down the inheritance of his girlfriend in 17th century France but, as usual at the Hasty Pudding, it's the good time you have, not the money you lost that counts. And with the excellently choreographed, excellently executed dance...
With a plot complicated enough to confuse even the most well-connected in the audience and some song which might leave Jerome Kern wondering if pieces of his Showboat ever floated into Cambridge, the exuberant cast of leading men has taken its annual sidestep into the Hasty Pudding Theater. Cardinal Knowledge, at least ostensibly, is about a cardinal trying to track down the inheritance of his girlfriend in 17th century France but, as usual at the Hasty Pudding, it's the good time you have, not the money you lost that counts. And with the excellently choreographed, excellently executed dance...