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...Stand By Me" could represent the growth, modifications and moderation that took place at Atlantic Records, and in popular music, from the beginning to the end of the ?50s. The song - along with another all-timer, "Spanish Harlem" - was recorded in King?s first solo session after leaving The Drifters, a group that had been at Atlantic, with many personnel permutations, from its inception as a support staff for singer Clyde McPhatter in 1953. Since 1958, when the remnants of the original quintet were replaced by King?s group, the Five Crowns, their songs had been produced by Leiber...
Even on Wall Street, the natural habitat of the lone wolf, it's harder to run solo. "On Wall Street, aggression was equated with sales," observes Larry Fraser of Management & Capital Partners, consultants in hiring and organizational effectiveness. "But the aggression now prevalent on Wall Street is institutional aggressiveness in the market and a downward trend in individual success at any cost." Ten years ago, he notes, 10 of the top 15 institutional brokers on the Street paid employees by commission. Five years ago, that number was down to five. In the first quarter of this year, the last holdout...
Rowen sparkled, seeming at ease with both the ridiculous and the more subtle comic moments, particularly shining in the reprise of “Lovely” and in his own solo, “I’m Calm...
...twaddling may be the way Hollywood heavies really behave in private. Some of the "actors' moments" linger too long, but a shadowy anger and misery underlie the sometimes choked-off wit of this free-form chamber piece shot on digital video. Everyone in the cast has his or her solo, and all rise brilliantly to their occasions, notably Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, Mina Badie and a divinely neurotic Jane Adams...
...debut in 1963 on trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas, now a Blue Note classic. He went on to play with pianists Horace Silver and Herbie Hancock, and recorded a string of his own successful albums. In the 1990s, Henderson won four Grammy awards, two for best jazz instrumental solo for Lush Life and Miles Ahead...