Word: tenoritis
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...safe bet that Jones' 4 percent call is simply the chiefs' opening ante in a very costly poker game. It's also a safe bet, given the tenor of the military debate thus far in this election year, that the amount of money the nation will allocate for the military in the coming years is going to be more than Clinton has proposed, but short of Jones' bid. And that could lead to a profoundly bizarre outcome. "The annual defense budget could be back to its Cold War average of $320 billion early in the next century," Korb says...
DIED. STANLEY TURRENTINE, 66, soulful blues-based tenor saxophonist whose 1970 crossover hit, Sugar, inspired today's "smooth jazz"; of a stroke; in New York City. A three-time Grammy nominee, Turrentine played with Ray Charles, Max Roach and Herbie Hancock early in his career and in 1953 replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band. He also made forays into pop music, including a 1976 jazz interpretation of Stairway to Heaven...
...October presidential debates are looming, and in the Bush and Gore camps the already frenzied preparations have reached a fever pitch. All this is to be expected - after all, the debates represent a critical opportunity to win over wavering voters - but this fall, the tenor of the groundwork has changed. Instead of facing one another three times over the familiar lecterns, checked by traditional time limits and rebuttal constraints, the candidates will be challenged by three different formats, where they'll endeavor to showcase their respective strengths - and cloak their weaknesses...
...with summoning up old ghosts. Saxophonist , 31, takes a more rewarding approach on his excellent new CD: he offers up fresh takes on the music of French Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, but he does so by substituting his own instrument in the lead role. Carter, whether he's playing tenor or soprano sax, shows off a sweet, sinuous tone; when he reinterprets Reinhardt's classic Nuages with a bass sax, the muscular sound is distancing at first, but then it wraps itself around the listener like an anaconda. This CD does more than invoke Reinhardt's spirit...
Watching the theatrical duo gallop around on toy-horses with the lanky Greene blustering away in a puffed-out tenor and the rotund Herrera squeaking a charming countermelody seems to hit right at the heart of Don Quixote...