Word: sensually
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Marsalis' roots, like those of jazz, go back to the steamy, sensual city of his birth. Scholars bicker over exactly where and when jazz was born, but there is no doubt that its first identifiable players -- like the legendary trumpeter Buddy Bolden -- appeared in the dance halls, honky-tonks and bordellos of New Orleans around the turn of the century. In the hands of such men as King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet, the story goes, the music thrived until the closing of the red-light district in 1917 sent many of the Crescent City...
Marsalis' prolific jazz output runs the gamut from soothingly sensual (Hot ! House Flowers, 1984, with a string ensemble) to cerebral (Black Codes from the Underground, 1985) to fiery and aggressive (Live at Blues Alley, 1988). His latest effort, The Resolution of Romance, a set of standard songs featuring his father on piano, is a return to the very essence of jazz -- a melody with a beat. The forthcoming sound-track album for Tune in Tomorrow, set in the Crescent City, features sonorous Ellingtonian orchestrations with a spicy New Orleans accent. In addition to recording, Wynton plays some 120 live performances...
PRINCE: GRAFFITI BRIDGE (Warner Bros.). The movie -- a sequel to 1984's Purple Rain -- is not out until October, but this funked-out, sizzling soundtrack won't wait that long. Sensual and spiritual: better grab it fast...
Rewind a generation for Brigitte Bardot's tousled hair, pouty mouth and sensual allure. Then fast-forward -- and surprise! -- blond tendrils again, lips in a pout and more curves than a scenic railroad. It's CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, the newest top star on the international fashion runway. Discovered in a Dusseldorf disco, Schiffer, 19, is being called the face of the '90s. She has already been on the cover of Vogue and Elle and showed off Chanel's latest collection. In her provocative ads for Guess?, Schiffer fills a pair of jeans in a way that cowboys only dream...
MARY REILLY by Valerie Martin (Doubleday; $18.95). The Jekyll-Hyde saga from the point of view of a spunky, sensual servant girl...