Lisa Schiff is stepping down as the chairwoman of Jazz at Lincoln Center after leading the organization through a tumultuous decade of growth.
Mr. Lovano is taking a step back from the material of jazz and looking at its motivating forces; implicitly, he's asking why we make it in the first place.
The novel remains the crucial introduction to le Carré's cool moral universe — his bald, adjective-free prose style, his penetrating insight into human character, his ethical inquisitiveness and, perhaps best of all, his ability to tell a story in such a way that you're forever just one step behind a tripping kind of jazz beat.
An air of defensiveness hangs over this enterprise, which opens with a hide-and-seek Ornette Coleman composition, "Questions and Answers," and later tackles John Coltrane's "Giant Steps," the jazz equivalent of a standardized proficiency test.
Recordings under various leaders, including the historically important Giant Steps of John Coltrane, and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, continued well into 1962, when he became vocalist Ella Fitzgerald's full-time accompanist.
In April 2006, Derek E. Gordon stepped down as president and chief executive of Jazz at Lincoln Center after a little more than a year in the job.
Astrophysicist and Dartmouth professor Stephon Alexander connect the mathematical realization of quantum gravity to John Coltrane's Giant Steps in his seven minute TED Talk entitled, "The Physics of Jazz".
We hear the contrast between Tony's dapper and Gaga's shock-pop style; a stream of jazz standards flows in and around their smooth patter: Stepping Out.
She talked jazz, she swung jazz, she ate jazz, she danced jazz, and she lived the past and future of jazz.
