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...writers Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White and the myriad artists at their command have taken the familiar Tarzan iconography--vine swinging, Jane, Cheetah, the jungle yodel--then freshened or deepened it. This ape-man (animated by Glen Keane and voiced by Tony Goldwyn) is no longer a swinger; he rides the twisting highways of tree boughs like the coolest surfer. (Alert, all Disney park ride designers: have the Tarzan Twist ready by next spring...
...case, happy birthday, Duke. Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington--pianist, bandleader, composer, swinger and genius--was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington. His centenary is being marked in large and small ways, with the release of several boxed sets, including RCA Victor's impressive and intimidating 24-CD Duke Ellington Centennial Edition (out April 27). For fans whose CD players can't accommodate two-dozen discs at a time, there's the satisfyingly concise single CD The Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. Other tributes range from last week's posthumous Pulitzer citation to the more than 400 commemorative...
This is Springsteen at his flawed best, reminding us of our youthful affection: adorable Bruce in his white undershirt, half-shaven. But in the middle of the catchiest tune on the album, "Seaside Bar Song," which shares with the '60s-infused swinger "So Young and In Love" and the second disk's "Where the Bands Are" the same attitude of giggly boardwalk fun that made the early albums special, Springsteen reminds us where he is going: out of the organs and saxophone comes the ancestor of The Ghost of Tom Joad's most recognizeable whispered refrain, "The highway is alive...
...hand, my colleague's view of Sinatra as scourge of baby boomers--the anti-Judy Collins, if you will--is a crude caricature of a complex artist, as reductive as any neo-swinger's fetishistic prattling about the man's way with a pocket handkerchief. On the other hand, it is a caricature I too used to believe...
...G.I.s and their sweethearts. In the '50s, the persona went to war with the man. Sinatra at ballad tempo was the soul-sick, lovelorn, solitary man who closes down a midtown saloon. Up-tempo, and increasingly in his life, he was the unapologetic and (some said) unconscionable swinger, the ring-a-ding ringmaster of a million all-night parties. Which was the real Sinatra, the reveler or the lost...