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Along with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, the legendary tenor saxophonist Lester Young is considered one of the seminal figures in the history of jazz. From his first recorded solo in 1936 through his small group sessions with Billie Holiday and his memorable stint with the Count Basie Orchestra, Young (known as "Pres," short for "President of the Tenor Saxophone") created some of the most memorable recordings in American music. Douglas Henry Daniels, a professor of History and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has spent more than two decades investigating the legend of Lester...
...Another example highlights even more clearly Daniels' shortcomings as a biographer. After Young's horrific stint in the armed services during World War II - revealingly, Daniels doesn't seem to have made any effort over the two decades it took to write his book to track down any of the Army personnel who served with Young, many of whom could be presumed to have been still alive when Daniels began his research - he began a long-time association with Norman Granz's floating jam session, called Jazz at the Philharmonic. A few weeks after his dishonorable discharge, Young appeared...
...market still seems bleak, the outlook for Alex and Cindi Ignatovsky, both 33, could not be much brighter. After trying out a number of different careers, the Aptos, Calif., couple have recently discovered their true callings. Alex, who had been a paralegal and had also done a brief stint as an insurance salesman, has just started working as a juvenile-probation officer, helping kids wend their way through the crowded criminal-justice system. Cindi, who previously was an editor and a graphic designer, is now busy finishing up an intensive, multiyear program to become an acupuncturist. In her view...
Crockett hasn’t been asked to start a game on short rest yet this year, but he showed little sign of being tired in his one-inning relief stint last week...
Without the ability to poster or advertise through any of the official Harvard channels, getting the Sigma Chi name out to the campus proved difficult. Feltman would never have even heard of the group had it not been for his brief stint on the rugby team. A few of the guys invited him to check it out and soon he was a committed member of the brotherhood. “There’s very little that reinforces community at Harvard,” he says. “What we’re about is community...