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...just pulled into New York City. He's keeping fast company, part of a jazz quartet that also includes drummer Billy Higgins, trumpeter Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman, who is exploring the outside edge of the stratosphere with his alto sax. They are opening at the Five Spot, the Manhattan mecca for cutting-edge jazz. It is one of those debut dates that are more like a trial by fire: chops will be checked out, irrevocable judgments passed. Slipping the cover off his bass, Haden, who is 22, looks up at the bar and sees Charles Mingus. Percy Heath...
Real people. Like the people of Cognac, where signs in five languages welcome visitors to "the City at the Heart of the World." It is no idle boast. Cognac (pop. 20,000) exports 95% of its brandy, $2 billion worth a year, west to musty men's clubs of Manhattan, and east to Japan, where businessmen buy it packaged in Baccarat crystal at $1,000 a bottle. The French drink less and less cognac. "We've been switching to whiskey ever since the Americans liberated us in '44," says Jean-Luc Lebuy, a Remy Martin executive. He voted...
When a shop selling nothing but biographies opened in Greenwich Village in New York City a few years ago, it affirmed both a well-established truism (Manhattan is a bookwormy hothouse) and a brand new one: as this century winds down, the number of biographies manifestly exceeds the supply of deserving subjects. How much did the world need an account of the life of Elton John, let alone the two that were published this year...
...CREEPING IN ON LITTLE CAT FEET FOR THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. This touring concert stomps into Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for a two-week visit with a 52-piece orchestra, twice the size of the usual Broadway pit band. Early on, overamplification and pretension threaten to do in the evening. Ultimately, though, Sir Andrew's lush, melodic theater music seduces. From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Phantom of the Opera, all the hits are here. A virtuoso company of 14 makes even the most familiar songs seem fresh (Laurie Beechman's poignant Memory is a knockout...
...BROADWAY SHOW IN MANHATTAN CALLED THE NEWS in Revue is packing them in by turning today's political headlines into tonight's routines. For instance: the long-running Clinton-Gore road tour has gone sour since the Fab Foursome started getting on each other's nerves. Bill keeps playing that darned sax, and Hillary won't quit with the cookies. Tables are outfitted with ballot boxes, and every night the audience votes for President. At last count, Clinton had won 68 of 70 ballots...