"Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love." "Night and Day," "I Get A Kick Out of You," "You're the Top," "Begin the Beguine," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" -- some of the cleverest, funniest, ...
PART I: THE LIGHTNING STRIKE OF EGO In the opening paragraph of his monumental essay on the first Ali-Frazier fight, Norman Mailer calls ego "the great word of the twentieth century." But the magnitude of ego has long endured. Ego has probably been the great ...
AMERICAN MASTERS Online presents an extended interview with "Quincy Jones" filmmaker Michael Kantor. Q: What did you learn while making an AMERICAN MASTERS program about Quincy Jones? A: There were two stories that I will never forget. One happened to make it into the show, ...
"There was one thing he wanted to do. He didn’t worry about anything else -- as long as he could play that horn." - Jay McShann At age eleven, he had just begun to play the saxophone. At age twenty he was leading a revolution ...
"I believe that we are all connected on this very basic emotional level by music -- by rhythm and harmony. But how can we begin to communicate if we don’t use a wider vocabulary? If we don’t speak in someone else’s language, then how can ...
"Everything I know I learned in vaudeville." -James Cagney At the turn of the century in America, the Wright Brothers made their first successful flight, Jack London wrote Call of the Wild, Henry Ford started his motor company, and thousands of people escaped small apartments ...
