Word: jazzing
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Fortunately, music between scenes, which ranged from Bjork to spooky Kenny G-like jazz, added to the dark mood of the play-that is, when it didn't have the audience bouncing up and down in their seats and singing along to "Happy Together." The music, which really did have an integral role in the play because there were so many scene changes, was not enough to make up for the time the audience spent literally in the dark...
However, if Marsalis is tremendously accomplished, he is almost equally controversial. Many critics and musicians label Marsalis an artistic conservative with exclusionary aesthetic views, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra has been frequently accused of reverse racism and gender discrimination in its hiring practices...
...performer, Wynton Marsalis won eight Grammy Awards for his jazz and classical trumpeting skills. As a composer of the jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields, he became the first winner of a Pulitzer Prize for a non-classical composition. As an author, public speaker, public television personality and director of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, he has become a musical diplomat, a 21st-century Leonard Bernstein, lecturing and performing on six continents...
...Harvard Crimson: Boston was recently visited by Sonny Rollins, whom many people consider to be jazz music's last living legend. Who are some of the great leading jazz musicians of the next generation, in your opinion...
...Wallace, Doug Jernigan and Joe Wright, accompanied by bass and drums, tear into a set that ranges from "Sweet Georgia Brown" to the bluegrass standard "Rocky Top" (featuring a scorching ride by Jernigan) to "Johnny B. Goode." As is not always the case with highly technical instrumental displays (think jazz fusion), some actual music is being played here, and very well...