Word: trumpeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delivers a vibrant version of Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose. Dreamland features an impressive cast of supporting players. Pianist Chestnut provides restrained invention on Reckless Blues, guitarist Vernon Reid (formerly of the rock band Living Colour) enlivens Muddy Water, and up-and-coming jazz stars Marcus Printup (trumpet) and James Carter (saxophone) provide lift to several other tracks...
...grandmother's town, where I spent last weekend, everybody knows everybody else. I'm told that neighbors schedule their evening walks so they pass my cousins' house in time for trumpet practice...
...Devil), the "cutting sessions" (Yeah, Man, a fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter tricks up his solo with so many growl tones, glissandos, squeaking harmonics and feathery flutter-tonguings that it begins to seem his tenor sax can do everything but fetch...
...been satellites. For example, the CIA wants to build $1 billion-apiece "8X" spy satellites to photograph targets, even though it has sitting in warehouses about half a dozen satellites that have the capacity to take pictures for the next decade. The Air Force recently launched two $1 billion "Trumpet" signal intercepting satellites, which spend most of their time parked over the former Soviet Union. Furthermore, satellites may simply not be that useful. A highly classified CIA study recently concluded that satellites provide less than 10% of the valuable signal intelligence collected from such rogue states as Iraq and Iran...
Jones, who first went to Paris in 1951 while a trumpet player and arranger for the Lionel Hampton band, later moved there in 1957 and studied with the famed Nadia Boulanger...