Word: clarinetist
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...director for the issue, Janet Michaud, a classically trained clarinetist, aimed to create a lively, elegant design that would "have a voice. I wanted even the type to be lyrical," she says. Photo editors Marie Tobias and Jessica Taraski complemented that voice by encouraging their subjects to have fun in the photographers' studios. South African singer Brenda Fassie "swept into her session like some marvelous rock-'n'-roll diva, wearing snakeskin boots," Tobias recalls. Tobias and Taraski insisted that Fassie keep the boots on for the shoot, which she did, barely suppressing the impulse to dance in them...
...musician is like calling the Pacific wet--it just doesn't begin to describe it. Magazines may not be able to resist the impulse to categorize, but Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category. Though he made his bones as a jazz clarinetist, over the past decade he has developed a sort of musical Esperanto--impassioned, expansive, inclusive--distilled from the babel of styles, genres and species, both historical and contemporary, that make up our perception of music itself...
...musician is like calling the Pacific wet - it just doesn't begin to describe it. Magazines may not be able to resist the impulse to categorize, but Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category. Though he made his bones as a jazz clarinetist, over the past decade he has developed a sort of musical Esperanto - impassioned, expansive, inclusive - distilled from the babel of styles, genres and species, both historical and contemporary, that make up our perception of music itself...
DIED. JAMES ("ROSY") MCHARGUE, 97, leather-lunged jazz reedman who played with Benny Goodman and Kay Kyser; in Santa Monica, Calif. The clarinetist, saxophonist and vocalist--whose career in clubs lasted 70 years--got his nickname from singing the Hawaiian novelty song When Rosy Riccoola Do da Hoola Ma Boola...
...PARENTS. WOODY ALLEN, 63, filmmaker, and his wife SOON-YI PREVIN, 28, have a daughter, Bechet Dumaine Allen. A spokesman for Allen would not comment on whether the couple's first child, named for jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet, was adopted or biological...