Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group also serenaded Massachusetts Hall with a song entitled, "Workers's Wonderland," drawing applause from some student residents of the hall. The demonstrators then circled the building, singing "We shall not be moved...
...last, a reason for Modern Maturity readers to watch mtv. In the video for Don Henley's newest song, The Garden of Allah, Kirk Douglas plays Satan. The 79-year-old actor, who agreed to take the role after consulting his rabbi, has no lines but lip-synchs quite convincingly--no mean feat for a man who's almost deaf...
...Several songs stand out. On the mournfully romantic ballad Laura, Hargrove takes the lead, lingering over each note of the song as if slowed by sorrow. On the nostalgic April in Paris, Scott goes solo and, through a succession of stately, undulating shifts in mood and rhythm, finds fresh, melancholy elegance in an old standard...
Without resorting to mimicry or sacrificing their personalities, the trio capture the core intelligence and essential sweetness of Parker's playing. The performances are disciplined; the song interpretations lithe, direct and largely unadorned. But the sense of love is palpable: love for Bird, his music and jazz in general. With Bird's originals, one is overwhelmed with his fierce creativity; with this trio's covers, one is caught up in their fierce devotion. It's not Bird, but it flies...
...JACKY TERRASSON Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note). Seated at the piano, this 30-year-old Parisian import doesn't just play a song; he seizes it, takes it through his own looking glass and refracts it in ways that squeeze fresh thrills out of old Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter jazz standards. Terrasson's debut served notice that here is a star in the making...