Honda to jazz up small-car market in India
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- Honda to jazz up small-car market in India
- Benny Carter Centennial – Jazz – Review – New York Times
- Nichol Trio gives escape from television
- Music Review | American Composers rchestra
Honda to jazz up small-car market in India
Economic Times – Oct 22, 2007
Even as it readiesto formally premiere the GeNext Jazz at the Tokyo Motor Show the Japanese automajor is working on a brand new platform for a small car that will use India asthe manufacturing hub. The newplatform will be for a global car like all Honda platforms but will be primarilysourced and manufactured out of India. This will be a first for Honda which hasa handful of basic platforms worldwide from which it spins out new models. When contacted a Honda Sielspokesperson said ?Honda is looking at two cars in the compact segment inthe next few years but we don?t have details right now.
Benny Carter Centennial – Jazz – Review – New York Times
New York Times – Oct 22, 2007
But he was also an excellent composer arranger and bandleader able to handle great quantities of music and musicians; he knew how to collaborate. Those qualities eventually took him around the world and gave him longevity so that he made excellent music until his death in 2003 at 95. It was fitting then that no single musician ran away with. (Carter was born in 1907 and this is his centennial year.
Nichol Trio gives escape from television
Central Michigan Life – Oct 22, 2007
The trio plays with each other about three times a week. “What we do for fun is play music” Jason Nichol said. Their performance tells stories using vocal and instrumental favorites from both classical and jazz music. “It’s good to play American songs because every American song tells a story” Jonathan Nichol said. To end the night the trio played their theme song “Take the ‘A’ Train. ” Jonathan Nichol said he has played the song at every gig since he was 15 years old. John Nichol said the audience enjoys his family’s performance because of their youthfulness and energy.
Music Review | American Composers rchestra
New York Times – Oct 22, 2007
The playing was better in Susie Ibarra’s “Pintados Dream” a simple delicately scored modal reverie that provided a showcase for Ms. Ibarra’s sensitive poetic drumming and watercolor daubs by the painter Makoto Fujimura. But a murky account of Steve Coleman’s “Illusion of Body” misrepresented its composer a jazz saxophonist whose albums present a gripping alchemy of complex rhythms and globe-spanning mythologies. Coleman’s cosmos-pondering concept was reduced to primordial ooze rendering analysis pointless. Anna Clyne’s “paintbox” dispensed with the orchestra altogether.