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In basketball terms, and why not, she is Larry Bird to Mariza's Magic Johnson. Both magnificent, but one (Mariza and Magic) just a tad more versatile and engaging than the other. Her voice doesn't modulate over the range that Mariza employs, but she obviously sees the "court" as few others can ...
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Jazz
Donuts they give kids in the student Cluster Challenge at the SC09 supercomputing conference. "I'm going to die of diabetes right now." Max Hapner, after eating one slathered in Oreos. And he's a thin guy.
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Jazz
"I don't feel that I have all of the technical facilities that I would like to have." -- Art Tatutm "That's the musical equivalent of hearing Alfred Hitchcock tell a reporter that he wished his movies were scarier!" --Terry Teachout From this cool article , title You Never Saw Art Tatum ...
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Jazz
Louis Armstrong
She has been singing fado for something like six decades here. In a few years, she will be gone. Her voice, once pristine and soaring, is now rough around the edges and the weight of the years that have passed prevents it from flying to the heights it once, and not so long ago, did. Yet, the ...
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Jazz
Should win an Oscar. I had expected Fados , a new documentary film by Carlos Saura , to be a documentary about Portuguese fado music in the same, traditional sense as Calle 54 or The Buena Vista Social Club , excellent documentaries respectively covering Latin jazz (generally) and Cuban jazz ...
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Jazz
A jazz band from Wales that claims the following: "A heady mix of crooning melodies, filthy swing and rakish banter served up with an exhilarating cocktail of kazoo solos, anarchist misconduct and safari suits" and warns on the cover of the CD "Achtung! You may hear some naughty words!" What's ...
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Jazz
In Austin, Texas, you tend to think alt rock, country and blues (me in particular, not being like all that turned on by alt rock and country), but music town actually has a thriving jazz community as well (trumpeter Thomas Heflin included) mostly on display at the Elephant Room , which is just ...
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Jazz
In Paris in 1956, and at the famous venue where I saw Sonny Rollins a few years ago, by the by. I wish I had seen this. Then again, I might have immediately walked out and jumped into the Siene figuring that nothing was ever going to be better, thus missing Sonny Rollins, so what the heck. ...
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Jazz
Is not meant for sitting in front of a TV watching a mediocre professional football team. It Is meant for paddling in the sun under the blue sky and watching herons, bald eagles and such.
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Jazz
In Magical Mystery Tour, the latest from these Beatles guys I discovered, I hear about every rocker and popper since 1967, from Yes to, dare I say it, Billy Joel. Very clever of the Liverpool boys to incorporate such disparate elements in their music. Lots of nifty tunes, for instance The Fool ...
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Jazz
The Beatles
Billy Joel
This is a pristine format in which to hear Amália da Piedade Rodrigues sing fado, her voice with only a set of Portuguese and classical guitars, save for a couple of random tracks backed by an orchestra. From a French label and not dated, but she sounds young here. A Minha Cancoa e Saudade ...
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Jazz
Roughly speaking, the title means "clutches of the senses" and the senses here seem to be capturing inputs that lead to melancholy, perhaps over loves, life, a litany of things gone, which is to say it has the true feeling of saudade at the roots of traditional fado. The instrumentation is ...
