Word: intrepidness
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...heard, it might be added, the sound of applause that has hardly faded from that night to this day. Over the past three decades, Haden has been one of the most restless, gifted, intrepid players in all of jazz. You can figure that from the stats: he has played, by his own count, on more than 400 albums, and last August scored as Down Beat magazine's best acoustic bass player. Or you can hear it for yourself: Haunted Heart, a new album with his Quartet West, shows Haden, now 55, at his lyrical peak. It is a kind...
...seemed to have the slightest clue what was going on. The featured speaker, the deputy field director for Clinton's campaign, was intrepid but incompetent--a dangerous combination in politics. Her attempts to make group plans for visibility events, phonebanking, Clinton's Faneuil Hall rally and leafletting met with utter confusion: after an hour and a half, everyone was still baffled...
...couple of days without speaking to each other," observes Bentley. "I've found him to be the most casual politician I have ever worked with." So casual, in fact, that P.F. actually followed Clinton into the steam room of his New York City hotel last week. The intrepid photographer could take only two exposures at a time before the cameras fogged up and had to be cleaned -- but eventually got the shot he wanted...
...minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple chord changes, birdlike ululations, soaring vocalises and stylized dances, Atlas is the apotheosis of Monk's decades-long quest for artless simplicity...
Editor's Note: This list ranks the a capella jams of the first semester only. The intrepid a capella beat reporter, exhausted from the grueling pace and sheer musical intensity of the fall season, had to take a sabbatical second semester. Because the a capella beat reporter missed the Veritones jam, they do not appear on this list. The readers can put them anywhere they want...