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...compared with Labor's 36.5% and the Social Democratic-Liberal Party Alliance's 21.5%. Thatcher nonetheless seemed destined to become the first Prime Minister in this century to win three consecutive terms. "There's no doubt whatsoever that the Tories are maintaining a 7%-to-8% lead," said Robert Waller of Harris Research, polltakers for the Conservatives, whose figures projected a 40- to 50-seat government majority in the 650-member House of Commons. "Labor's won the campaign, but Thatcher's going to win the election," predicted Robert Worcester, managing director of the MORI polling firm, whose latest survey...
...among the best in jazz history. Not that Basie makes any such claims in Good Morning Blues. On the page as in life, he is a modest man, given to understatement and sly humor, deft in turning the spotlight on others. He fondly evokes such colleagues as Thomas ("Fats") Waller and Lester Young, and he has a nice eye for after-hours vignettes. With the artful help of Collaborator Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues), he turns his early memories into a historically valuable account of the itinerant, raffish life of the black musician...
...project seeks to blend music, poetry and prose into a "fusion" of jazz aiming to explore what Jazz (with a capital 3) as a medium expresses, and what a could potentially express. Using the music of Ellington. Gillespie, Waller, Monk and other greats coupled with selections from both Black and white authors. Mood Indigo II examines the meaning and the masters of Jazz in paying homage to the must distinctive origins and its fascinating evolution into a sophisticated cross-cultural genre, the performers (also both Black and White) not the "the Jazz transceds race." The message gets a little heavy...
...ever to grace a dance floor or a recording studio, including Tenor Sax Player Lester Young, Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Drummer Jo Jones and Blues Singer Jimmy Rushing; and later backing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Although his elliptically eloquent, spare style of playing, influenced by Fats Waller, gave his band its characteristic texture, Basie slyly soft-pedaled his technique. "I just play my one or two notes and don't worry about keeping up," he said a couple of years...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson's undefeated record will be severely tested with two doubleheaders in two days, beginning tomorrow against the University of Massachusett and followed Wednesday with a pair against Northeastern. Crimson 7, Jumbos 6 HARVARD ab r h bl Waller cl 2 2 1 0 Kay 3b 2 1 1 1 DaPalo dh 5 0 1 0 Pivers 1b 4 0 1 1 Meapone c 4 2 1 3 Vierra II 3 0 0 0 DiCesare as 3 2 2 2 Lyman 2b 4 0 0 0 Vallone if 4 0 0 0 McNamera...