Clooney recorded some of the best music of her life with illustrious jazz partners at the age of 60, as if making up for the years that showbiz and then mental illness stole from her music.
The saxophonist's jazz partners soon burst in, with drummer Anton Eger driving a frenetic dance of spiralling orchestral motifs peppered with crash stops and glowering pauses, and a bass and bassoon hook that spurred a tenor-sax improvisation of darting long lines and hoarse split-note sounds.
The New Yorker, November 6 , 1989P. 133 OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about bassist Michael Moore, who moved to India, and also about his former jazz duet partner, Gene Bertoncini.
By Whitney Balliett The New Yorker, November 6 , 1989P. 133 OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about bassist Michael Moore, who moved to India, and also about his former jazz duet partner, Gene Bertoncini.
The booking otherwise skews more adult-contemporary, with appearances at the B.B. King Blues Club by the Commodores (June 16); the saxophonist Gato Barbieri (June 17); the Jeff Lorber Fusion (June 18); Average White Band (June 20); and the bassist Stanley Clarke, working with his old jazz-funk partner, the keyboardist George Duke (June 26).
(How far can you trust a guy named Dorgon?) But he makes modest, likable free jazz with different partners; tonight it's with the keyboardist Jamie Saft, who loves to add sound-warping effects to his Fender Rhodes.
In a typical day, dancers take a technique class in the morning, followed by rehearsal for future performances and then classes in partnering, jazz, character and modern dance or yoga in the afternoon.
The tone is funkier with Jetté, thanks in part to Trance, a hilarious and lanky "spoken-word artist" who struts out at the start as a flamboyant queen in "What Yo Name Is?" The choreography is by Mr. Jenkins and Mark Holland, a superpolished jazz dancer who partnered the supergraceful Katrina Medley.
Sam and Mikaela soon meet Optimus Prime and his other Autobot partners Jazz, Ironhide, and Ratchet.
Lady Gaga showed up Thursday at Staples Center in a dazzling strapless gold lame cocktail dress and matching iridescent gold 4-inch heelsherls, her bleach blond hair swept smoothly over one shoulder as she took the stage with her recent duet partner, jazz-pop singer Tony Bennett, to sing Irving Berlin's Great American Songbook standard "Cheek to Cheek".
