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...Arts at Harvard and the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson chose Roy Haynes from the top of their list. “Roy Haynes is a living legend, a walking history of Jazz,” Everett says. Growing up in Boston near Long Wharf, Haynes “just about played with every major innovative artist since 1945, and he keeps the tradition alive,” according to Everett. Before his first New York gig with Luis Russell in 1945, Haynes was already making a name for himself as a teenager at Martha?...
...conference center, where the meeting will take place, lie the vast Royal Victoria docks, built on marshland in 1855 to accommodate the biggest ships of the day and boost the city's capacity for maritime trade. Look to the west, and you can't miss the towers of Canary Wharf, totems to London's more recent role as a global financial capital...
...into busts and how grandiose bets on real estate plays can get you into trouble, they would do well to learn the lesson of their surroundings. The summit of leaders from 19 of the world's key economies will be held in London's docklands, just east of Canary Wharf, a real estate megaventure conceived on industrial wasteland in Britain's go-go 1980s. By the time the first part of the project was completed in the early 1990s, Britain was in a deep economic slump, and the project's developer, the Montreal-based Olympia & York, went bust...
...Nonetheless, there is always hope - as summiteers could discover if they consider their surroundings. Canary Wharf may have looked like a white elephant in the 1990s, but - not without some trials and tribulations - it has since become an essential part of London's economy, expanding the center of that amoeba-like city to the east. So do big bets on real estate ever pay off? Anyone who saw the sheer scale of decrepitude and decay of London's docklands in the early 1980s like I did will need no convincing that they sometimes do. In the ever turning cycle...
...says. "Whereas they used to buy their eggs and bread, now they're just buying a cup of tea." Heap, who opened the shop less than a year ago, has dropped her prices 25% and let some staff go. She remains upbeat about the future, but with Canary Wharf on her doorstep, she concedes, "I do feel a slight wave of fear...