PENNY VON ESCHEN takes her title from an article in Drum magazine celebrating the African tour which Louis Armstrong and his All Stars made at the height of the Cold War in 1956. He had been sent by CBS television, which wanted to film his return to his roots, but when the US ...
Freedom Now Suite (1960) and Ornette Coleman and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961), not to mention the futuristic sounds of Sun Ra, literally. "[Coltrane's] transition from style to style is almost hard to process," Dorsey continues. In the late '50s, the saxophonist recorded...
I knew him when he was a student at Harvard University. We were surprised when he left University to set up his own company "Microsoft" and make his own software. But he was the clever one! He is very good at writing computer languages and almost all computer now use 正在翻译,请等待....
The improvisation-driven model for innovation project management doesn’t discard structure, just as there is a clear structure to good jazz. In innovation, this structure is created through roadmaps, guiding principles, business processes, systems and o
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Learning JavaScript at the Advanced Level At its highest levels, programming in any language becomes an art. Much like jazz musicians, skilled programmers take all the skills they’ve memorized and rearrange them into new combinations to solve a problem. ...
at his house – adding harmonies and rhythm to his lead vocal and guitar ahead of sharing them with Campbell. I have a bad habit of assuming the lead singer of any band who plays rhythm guitar is doing so because he isn’t up to the task of being the lead axe man. Listening to ...
Facebook’s history is one of the most well-documented tech stories of all-time, so we’ll speedrun this backstory. Although by no means the first social media platform, Facebook launched against competitors such as MySpace and Friendster. Co-founded by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004...
“Lisa Bloom,” he began, shoulders set, eyes locked on the camera for the wind-up, “was the best lawyer standing against Bill O’Reilly when he got kicked out the door at Fox News today.” And the boot doing the kicking, O’Donnell continued, was on her foot. O’Donnell described...
For much of her life, including when she was still an undergraduate at Harvard, Gorman had trouble pronouncing the letter “R”.Her situation presented difficulties, but also had benefits. “I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say ...