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...already the most renowned jazz musician of his generation. Now, he's trying out a new musical style: mixing classical with the blues. On Nov. 19, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will premier Blues Symphony, Marsalis' first work composed exclusively for orchestra. It celebrates the blues through moments in American history and, in Marsalis' words, "incorporates the call-and-responses, train whistles, stomp-down grooves, big-city complexities and down-home idiosyncrasies of Afro-American and American music." Ahead of the symphony's premiere, the jazz master spoke with TIME about working with an orchestra, the significance of the blues...
...want to celebrate the blues? Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock 'n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition. (Read "Montreux: Beyond the Blues...
Multiply that young man's story by millions, and you get a sense of what a forward-looking country this once very backward society has become. A smart American who lived in China for years and who wants to avoid being identified publicly (perhaps because he'd be labeled a "panda hugger," the timeworn epithet tossed at anyone who has anything good to say about China) puts it this way: "China is striving to become what it has not yet become. It is upwardly mobile, consciously, avowedly and - as its track record continues to strengthen - proudly...
...twilight falls over Mexico City's Buenavista neighborhood, the traditional night shift begins. A woman in suspenders and a pink dress takes up right outside the doors of an American-owned bank. Across the street, two girls in miniskirts entice clients at the entrance of a subway station. A block down, a group of transvestites and transsexuals bare their wares outside a convenience store. Quickly, the streets fill with hundreds of sex workers, while their clients lurk discreetly in dark corners, vigilant under the threat of a sudden police raid...
...downtown Mexico City is a long way from the Rio Grande. There are few American clients spending dollars in Buenavista. Mostly the johns are working and middle-class Mexicans who stop here after work and pay as little as $10 for a service. In these conditions, it could be hard to convince many of the sex workers themselves that it would benefit them to relocate to a special zone. "I have been here for 10 years. I had to work hard to get my place, and now I have my regular clients," says Monica, 35, eyeing passing...