Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right. The sick kick of the scenes in Happiness is integral to the pageant of misery and yearning--of the all-American pursuit of happiness, in forms simple or bizarre--that is Solondz's great theme. His intent, to cleanse by shocking, is just as important. In an age of creeping movie sameness, Happiness resounds as a declaration of independence...
...songs from her latest CD, Taming the Tiger. Then, alone with her guitar, she offers up a spare, resonant reading of her gently anthemic song Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even as she sings, Mitchell is planted in the present. There's a rootedness about her; she's too grounded to be carried...
...dark, fertile electric grooves. On the other hand you have saxophonist David Murray recording his latest album, Creole (Justin Time), in Guadeloupe with local musicians, his bluesy, barrelhouse tenor joyously mixing it up with Caribbean rhythms and melodies--for Africa's musical diaspora, a frequent-flyer-age reunion...
This vocalist had the misfortune to come of age in the early '60s, just when male jazz singers were going out of style. Unrecorded for 22 years, Bey, now 58, issued a comeback CD, Ballads, Blues and Bey, in 1996. On this follow-up, he makes dramatic use of his four-octave range against spare but inventive arrangements of tunes from the further reaches of the great American songbook. On ballads, Bey's voice can have a humanizing tightness, a vulnerability that draws a listener in. But when the tempo quickens he can really belt it out: the New York...
...these kids, who range in age from five weeks to 15 years, this clinic represents their last hope. "They came in here with zero survival chances," says a physician. But thanks to a new treatment that swaps good cells for bad, the 16 kids here now have at least a fifty-fifty chance of survival...