Word: trombonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...string quartet of Crimes and Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never heard of Woody's films, and one of them, trombonist Jim Robinson, called him Willard.) He hopes one day to devote a whole film to "the birth of jazz...
...been the scene of more than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music stand so he could watch the game while he played. Trombonist Dick Dreiwitz and his wife Barbara, the tuba player, tell of a surprise visit by Groucho Marx. "After one of Woody's solos," says Barbara, "Groucho reached up and handed him a few pennies as a tip." Psychiatrist Ron Brady, a friend of Woody's, recalls the time a man claiming...
...from its opening recitative to its blazing vivo finale; it got an otherworldly performance from Soloist Sergei Stadler, a baby-faced firebrand who shared first prize in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition with Viktoria Mullova. Sergei Slonimsky's sprightly two-minute Novgorod Dance -- hellzapoppin', cossack- style, ending with the clarinetist, trombonist, cellist, pianist and conductor all merrily hoofing it around the stage -- bespeaks a composer with both an ear and a sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke's silvery Three Scenes for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1981), a theater piece for percussionists, soprano and conductor that apes a funeral...
...they weren't playing it for the money. For this weekly gig, for example, the take is $1,000 -- not exactly a fortune when split among so many. "It would be hard to make a living this way," said Corbin Wyant, the publisher-trombonist. "I don't think you could raise a family, plan retirement, those things. One of the best trombonists I've ever known now sells tools. It's really sad. He played with Stan Kenton." A moment later Wyant brought his own ax to bear on Kenton's wonderful Peanut Vendor...
...songs have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá; conducts a long-distance collaboration with Gabriel Garcia Márquez on a cycle of songs based on some...