Word: bebopped
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...Clock Is Ticking" incorporates electric guitars and vocal distortions more freshly than any R&B since En Vogue's "Free Your Mind"; and "Hold On," the final track, makes the unlikely choice of Brandy's lightweight hit "Baby" as the sample-basis for one of Kirk Franklin's bebop spiritual revivals...
...musical attraction of "Semi-Charmed Life" is the scat section of the chorus-an easy sing-along that gives permission to even the most tone deaf amateur to join in (believe me, I know!). Along with this bebop blast, the chorus proclaims "I want something else, to get me through this...semi-charmed kind of life." Who better to identify with this mantra than the supposedly characteristic bored youth generation? Well, I have no answer for that, but I can say that a handful of suburban kids working jobs for spending money and wasting time in search of fun would...
...knows how to run the night," Clinkscales says. "That comes from his old bebop back-in-the-day upbringing...
...magazine. "We played R & B every night--we played at the Seattle country club at 7 o'clock, doing 'Room Full of Roses'...then we'd go to black clubs and play R & B from 10 'til 1 a.m. and then go over to the Elks Lodge and play bebop.... We played for comedy acts, we played for strippers...
...music by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Jerome Kern, it was a lively and moving reflection of the young jazz legend's life. Born in 1920, Parker, better known as "Bird," rose to great heights in the music world. Along with Dizzy Gillespie, he helped to establish bebop, putting West 52nd Street, now known as Jazz Alley, on the map. After a life of drug and alcohol abuse, Bird died at the age of 35--but not before leaving behind a significant legacy in the age of jazz...