Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cool, wandering saxophone solos that trail off into ecstasy. The new album Color and Light: Jazz Sketches on Sondheim brings the worlds of jazz and Broadway together, and the result is a sensuous, satisfying collection of songs. These interpretations are more intelligent and textured than the average Broadway show tune, yet they contain more melodiousness and amiability than one usually expects from jazz...
...Music, Sunday in the Park with George), but his cerebral, challenging compositions possess depths that cannot always be fully explored in the sometimes constraining format of musical theater. Those depths are plumbed here. Each track on Color and Light features one or more jazz musicians performing a Sondheim show tune. Singer Peabo Bryson and saxophonist Joshua Redman join forces on a version of Sondheim's Pretty Women (from the musical Sweeney Todd) that is mature and mysterious, dark and sweet. Grover Washington Jr., with charismatic sax runs, turns the understated melody of Every Day a Little Death (from A Little...
...habitually sports a big, black cowboy hat, Delafose taught himself to play the accordion at age 13. On his first solo album, French Rockin' Boogie, he shows his ability to take the simplest melody and then, as he puts it, "add the lacing" to turn a foursquare tune into a surging, syncopated dance. "I'm pretty traditional," he says, "but I can step it up when I want...
President Clinton's designated CIA Director, John Deutch, vowed to replace top officials in the agency's troubled covert-operations division and reform what he termed its cold war mentality. Some agents, he said, were not "in tune with the current requirements" of intelligence work...
Wylie vanquished his own personal demons to the tune of a one-round 76, tying him with Sanchez for fifth place overall...