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...band was brought back for an encore of "Wild Man Moore," an obscure Ellington tune from the Paris Blues Suite which featured tenor Andy Farber in a Paul Gonsalves feature. Marsalis ended the tune by leading the trumpet section offstage followed by trombones and saxes in a second-line march. A five-minute standing ovation brought Marsalis back with pianist Eric Reed for a rendition of Marsalis's best composition of the evening, the ballad "Spanish Yaounde." Another five minutes brought the entire band back for "Across the Track Blues" to close the night...
...much onstage signalling and Faithfull's blatant note-checking, the last half of her performance felt like a work in-progess. Her ensemble for that set includes a percussionist, electric guitarist, bassist and trumpet player--as harmonic as the New-Age-sounding synthisizers, chimes and cymbals were, they were rather ordinary next to Faithfull's cathartic voice...
...Tonight appearance on Monday, Grant's obvious nervousness ("I've never been one to, you know, blow my own trumpet") made the audience titter. But as his magical misery tour moved through the week, he gradually learned how to perform in this difficult role: part humiliation, part wry soldiering on. With King, he called his grandmother in as a character witness, quoting her as saying, "What I tell people, darling, is that you had a few drinks with the boys and then got a bit fresh with the girls--and leave it at that...
Escada represents the classic case of a savvy and rich advertiser whose clout can be measured in magazine pages. Between 1992 and 1994, the manufacturer's advertising budget jumped from $3.7 million to $5.2 million, partly to help trumpet the launch of Escada Sport, a new line. At the same time, the number of Escada's appearances in the fashion pages of national publications and Women's Wear Daily tripled, from about 30 to 90. A company spokeswoman points out that Escada did not always receive its best editorial coverage in publications where it most heavily advertised. Still, Escada clearly...
...hope that did not happen in this case and will not happen in the future. The FBI ought to be, and is, committed to defending the Constitution. It doesn't need instant experts, immediate second-guessing or quick fixes from any quarter. If Oklahoma City is a trumpet announcing a long siege, we all need, as they say in the Navy, to take an even strain...