Word: trumpets
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Fourth, the council should trumpet its successes more. They should talk about how much money they raised for Philips Brooks House and how important calendar reform was to students. They should talk about the extracurriculars that would have had to find money elsewhere had they not received funding from the council. And they should try to make undergraduates understand that the council can only do so much since it has a very limited scope of authority compared to a municipal, state or federal government...
...COMPLETE SIDNEY BECHET ON BLUE NOTE (available from Mosaic, 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. 06902). Born in New Orleans in 1897, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension to the status of a national hero in France...
...picks up the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which used to trumpet the segregationist line but today champions racial harmony, and reads slowly out loud about George Bush's threatened veto of the new civil rights bill and about a school-board vote in Jackson along racial lines. "The battle of human rights and race relations is over," he says, "but while most people don't express overt racism, their actions manifest a prejudice. We've got to persevere...
Last year's Mo' Better Blues, a dyspeptic study of a musician who cares only for his trumpet and his ego, took heat for its sardonic depiction of two Jewish businessmen. Lee had an answer for that charge too. He wanted to open Jungle Fever with advice to those who accused him of anti-Semitism: "They can kiss my black ass." After discussions with his patrons at Universal, the prologue was cut, but the director is typically unrepentant. "They can kiss my black ass two times," he avers...
FRANK MORGAN: A LOVESOME THING (Antilles). Ex-jailbird Morgan continues his comeback -- and feeds his legend -- with another dazzling performance on the alto sax. Up-and-coming trumpet phenomenon Roy Hargrove, 21, makes an impressive guest appearance...