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...Long term, our members recognize that if you're not in recycling, you'll be out of business in 10 years," says Allen Blakey, public relations director for the National Solid Wastes Management Association, the nation's trash collectors. Yet government-mandated recycling laws, by requiring haulers in some instances to pick up unmarketable items, are actually forcing some into bankruptcy. The danger in this short-term failure of recyclonomics, warns William Rathje, author of the recently published book Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage, "is that, in the interim, recycling enthusiasts will become disillusioned at reports of difficulties...
What would conspiracy theorists find if the files were opened? Not much that has not already been made public except for some classified documents that contain CIA and FBI sources and methods. "There's no smoking gun in there," scoffs G. Robert Blakey, the assassination committee's chief counsel...
...Columbia's George Butler first heard Marsalis with the Blakey band while scouting New York City jazz clubs for young talent. "Here was an 18-year-old playing with the maturity and facility of men twice his age," he says. "He was the ideal person to appeal to a young marketplace and revive the larger audiences that had been into acoustic jazz in the '50s." Butler promptly signed the new artist and devised an unheard-of marketing strategy: simultaneous record releases in both the jazz and classical idioms. Marsalis' first Columbia jazz album won a 1983 Grammy nomination. The following...
...musicianship, already on a world-class technical level when he first hit New York, has continued to develop and mature. Though his early influences -- Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard and pre-fusion Miles Davis -- are still discernible in his playing, he is increasingly forging his own sound. Since leaving Blakey to form his own band in 1981, he has released a total of 12 jazz albums, and he has enough material in the can to fill eight or 10 more. On the classical side, he has done five recordings, and is now working on a baroque album with soprano Kathleen Battle...
...knows how to communicate with people and make them understand the tradition," says Hargrove, whose Diamond in the Rough album has won high praise from jazz critics. Marsalis considers such proselytizing part of his legacy: "I'm just passing on the stuff that people like ((Harry)) 'Sweets' Edison, Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones told me. I mean, I'm acting on a mandate from them...