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...Especially in softball, it’s so easy to just give up a little bloop hit with a little bit of bad luck,” senior Dana Roberts said. “To throw two [no-hitters] against Princeton and Columbia, who aren’t weak teams by any means, really shows a level of focus [that] shows just how strong Rachel is…It’s really an outstanding accomplishment...
...original song as they wanted. His only request was that the finished products retain some of Davis' original feeling and intensity. "Other than that, they were free to do whatever they felt," says Baio. "That's what jazz is about, right?" He named his experiment Kind of Bloop...
...interest in computers. They do not necessarily know how to play an instrument. "You write a program and feed it to the computer, which reads it as if it were sheet music," explains 24-year-old Sam Ascher-Weiss, whose cover of Davis' "All Blues" appears on Kind of Bloop. "You see what it sounds like, mess around with it, and try it again." Ascher-Weiss is a chiptune anomaly: he is a jazz pianist and working musician in New York City. For Kind of Bloop, he recorded himself playing "All Blues" on the piano. Then he listened...
...surprisingly, jazz purists hate it. "I've gone on jazz message boards and they're offended by it. They feel like it's blasphemy," says Baio. He points out that since Kind of Bloop wasn't available to the public until Aug. 20, the haters were complaining about something they had never heard. (Baio timed the project's release with the 50th anniversary of Kind of Blue, which took place on Aug. 17. The original Kickstarter backers were able to download the songs on the actual anniversary date, with the public release coming three days later...
Jazz musicians might consider Kind of Bloop heresy, but the video-game community can't wait to hear it. Gamers and programmers thrive off new genres; they flood the Internet with thousands of mash-ups and remixes when most people think one version of a song will do. In fact, Baio already has ideas for future chiptunes experiments: Delta blues, Motown, or maybe Joni Mitchell's Blue. He just doesn't want to be the one to produce them. "The Kind of Blue musicians came together for one album and then broke up. It was a onetime project and this...