Word: wynton
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...jazz equivalent of stunt casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis protege, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway. Doc 's 91. The tunes here are standards, many of them--like Black and Blue--part of Louis Armstrong's repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one's suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times...
MUSIC . . . DOC CHEATHAM & NICHOLAS PAYTON: It?s the jazz equivalent of stunt casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis prot?g?, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway. Doc ?s 91. The tunes here, writes TIME?s Bruce Handy, are standards, many of them -- like Black and Blue -- part of Louis Armstrong?s repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one?s suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull...
...their characters pleasant and witty company for the evening, they all ended up seeming two-dimensional. Some of the cast members had their best and most believable moments when their characters were drunk, a condition that invites broader and more slapstick humor. Shar VanBoskirk '97 was hilarious as Lily Wynton, an aging movie star who likes brandy after breakfast...
Just last week WYNTON MARSALIS, musician, composer and keeper of the flame of jazz tradition, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Blood on the Fields, a three-hour, 22-movement oratorio for orchestra, ensemble and vocalists. It was the first jazz-based composition to win the Pulitzer since music was added as a category in 1943. The prize clinched his position as the man doing the most to bring jazz, a great art form of the 20th century, into the 21st...
...Having returned home to Ames, Iowa after heading up NBC News, Michael Gartner won the prize for local editorial writing. In photography, The Associated Press hauled in an award for a photo of Boris Yeltsin grooving at a rock concert during his re-election campaign. In the arts category, Wynton Marsalis won the music award for "Blood on the Fields," an epic composition on slavery; Frank McCourt's book "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" took the prize for biography. The book focused on McCourt's youth in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. The prizes are presented by Columbia University every...