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...Monk tune "Brilliant Corners." The Monday Band then took to the stage with a rousing performance of "Take The 'A' Train," replete with mean brass and take-no-prisoners attitude. The band played six more tunes, including two more in the Ellington/Strayhorn vein, "Star-Crossed Lovers" and "Cottontail," Wardell Gray's "Twisted," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and two premieres...
Watson said the book, which is unified by the theme of dogs, centers on the "idea that there is gray area in human beings between the wild and the civilized...
...McMurry reduced Gingrich's attack to a "charm offensive." There is the tone throughout of "business as usual." Yet, there is something asymmetrical about the Times's coverage. While the piece seems slanted against Gingrich, it is Gingrich's arguments--not the art-lovers'--which get voiced. Author Jerry Gray quotes Gingrich: "This is not about money, this is about an elite group who wants the government to define that art is good." Even in this brief clip we get the full sense of his argument: art is undemocratic...
Sinatra has always occupied a gray area between jazz and pop. The small group setting here--vibraphonist Red Norvo's quintet plus longtime Sinatra pianist Bill Miller--frees him to the extent that on some numbers his sense of swing and invention approaches Ella Fitzgerald's joyous, ineluctable pulse (and justifies Capitol's releasing this find on its Blue Note jazz subsidiary). With I've Got You Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn...
...Paul Gray...