Word: wynton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHIRLEY HORN: YOU WON'T FORGET ME (Verve). Her voice is sultry, voluptuous, plaintive; her piano work both driving and delicate. Combine them with brilliant backing by the likes of Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis (separate tracks, please), and you get one of the most exciting performances by a jazz singer since the heyday of the late Sarah Vaughan...
TUNE IN TOMORROW. Like the soap operas it parodies, this broad comedy teases more than it delivers in its tale of a blowsy woman (Barbara Hershey), her avid nephew (Keanu Reeves) and a radio writer (Peter Falk) who loves mischief and hates Albanians. A savory score by Wynton Marsalis, though...
...profile he was working on, film director (and fellow clarinetist) Woody Allen. Several months ago, Tom began doing research for a piece on Marsalis. "But the more I looked at today's jazz scene," he says, "the more I realized that there was a bigger story there: Wynton's success was the springboard for a jazz renaissance in which a whole new generation of talented young players was taking the music to a mainstream audience...
...good hands. "These kids, who will chart the future of this great American art form over the coming decades, have the sense to realize that they cannot move forward until they understand where the music came from," he says. "That's a lesson a lot of them learned from Wynton." And one for which all jazz fans can be grateful...
COVER: With a horn full of fire and a mouth full of advice, Wynton Marsalis, 29, is leading a youthful jazz renaissance...