Word: sheiking
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...showdown at last week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna was taut and grim. At one of the long rectangular tables sat Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the elegantly groomed Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia. At another, roughhewn and tieless, was Seyyed Mohammad Gharazi of Iran. The issue before them was the control of OPEC itself. The result: a draw that deepened the most severe crisis in OPEC'S 22-year history and raised doubts about whether the organization can ever function as an effective cartel...
...Same old thing, man," said Sheik over the drum-roll chuckle that always punctuated his words. "Same old thing...
...same old thing was traditional New Orleans jazz, and Sheik was one of maybe a dozen men who had been playing it since the century was young. While many famous players like King Joe Oliver and Louis Armstrong headed north in the 1920s, scores of other local musicians remained in the city, playing at dances, picnics, parades and funerals. Sheltered from the commercial pressures of big-time show business, their music remained what it was at the beginning, a pure and vital folk art that had evolved from 1,000 years of African and European culture and two centuries...
...black man dressed incongruously in a cowboy hat and a loud Hawaiian shirt was standing near the entrance, listening to the sounds coming from within. It was George ("Kid Sheik") Colar, 74, a veteran trumpet player with a ready grin and an infectious laugh. Would he recognize me after so long? "Sheik!" The face turned, the eyes looked puzzled for an instant behind their black-rimmed glasses. Then that wonderful laugh shattered the silence...
...like Sheik might have vanished into total obscurity if Preservation Hall had not opened its gates to the public in 1961. It began as a series of informal jam sessions in a French Quarter art gallery. The pickup sessions soon gave way to regular nightly concerts, and, under the management of Sandra and Allan Jaffe, a transplanted Pennsylvania couple, the hall eventually became a sort of New Orleans cultural landmark. It offered the musicians regular work, a wider audience and finally international recognition as purveyors of one of America's greatest art forms. Once the hall became established...