Is this the yearning of a middle-aged generation for a mythical golden age?
There is also the intimate civil war between an exhausted and cynical middle-aged generation and their angry, bewildered children.
But this was a new generation of students facing a middle-aged generation of administrators who were used to watching and waiting until student rioters graduated.
A liquid-toned, agile bassist and a heavyweight from the middle-aged generation of players who were coming up in the fusion years, Mr. Williams has kept strong, small bands for years; this one includes the saxophonist Casey Benjamin, the pianist George Colligan and the drummer Ali Jackson.
Reich is clearly trying to forge a legacy here, one that stretches from him and his near-coevals down to the middle-aged generation of the Bang on a Can composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and David Lang and even further, to the comparative youngsters Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner.
A liquid-toned, agile bassist and a heavyweight from the middle-aged generation of players who were coming up amid the fusion years, Mr. Williams has kept strong small bands for years; this one includes the saxophonist Javon Jackson, the pianist Eric Reed and the drummer Lenny White.
A liquid-toned, agile bassist and a heavyweight from the middle-aged generation of players who were coming up amid the fusion years, Mr. Williams has kept ever-changing small bands for years; this one includes the saxophonist Steve Wilson, the pianist George Colligan and the drummer Matt Wilson.
A liquid-toned, agile bassist and a heavyweight from the middle-aged generation of players who were coming up amid the fusion years, Mr. Williams has kept strong small bands for years; this one includes the saxophonist Steve Wilson, the pianist Geri Allen and the drummer Lenny White.
"It spoke to a middle-aged generation whose parents had died, or would soon pass away, and who began to feel they owed it to their parents and grandparents to know fully what happened, and to transmit it to the next generation.
A liquid-toned, agile bassist and a heavyweight from the middle-aged generation of players who were coming up amid the fusion years, Mr. Williams has kept strong small bands for years; this one includes the saxophonist Steve Wilson, the pianist Renee Rosnes and the drummer Lenny White.
For instance, those of the middle-aged generation and who are highly conscious of community issues can play a complementary role by supporting as food education volunteers the busy younger generation that is involved in raising children.
