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Looking at the piles of rubble and scrap, it is hard to imagine that when it opened in 1978, the Basic Oxygen Process Shop No. 2, known as "the BOP shop," was among the most formidable steelmaking facilities in the world. The two huge Voest-Alpine furnaces could produce up to 2.8 million tons of high- grade carbon steel annually. But soon after Kaiser built the plant (at a cost of $287 million), the company encountered new environmental regulations and rapidly rising union wages that made the mill noncompetitive with overseas producers. Within five years Kaiser shut the plant down...
Jones and talk of the rock, pop and be-bop of musician Quincy Jones centertained an enthusiastic crowd of about 250 yesterday in the Science Center...
Jones' musical accomplishments are diverse. Though his initial love was for be-bop, he played with big-bands, and has worked with the likes of Frank Sinatra ("I've Got You Under My Skin,") pop-star Leslie Gore ("It's My Party,") and Michael Jackson ("Thriller" and other albums...
THAT IS THE QUESTION: TO BE OR not . . . to bop. The problem, first stated by an English playwright of some note, was rephrased and repunctuated by John Birks Gillespie in 1979 and used as the title of a free-swinging memoir. To Be or Not . . . to Bop: hip, funny, silly, fractured, rhythmic -- each word is like a snap of the fingers -- pointed, pertinent, dizzy. Very Dizzy...
...Bop was fractured, urgent, wired. It did not go down easy. In fact, its strenuous experimentation not only polarized the jazz audience but lost jazz itself much popular support. As if realizing this and trying to reach some sort of no-sweat accommodation, Gillespie turned up the volume on his personality. His goatee, heavy-black-frame specs and frequent beret became prototypical hepcat mufti. His voice, which sounded like a thunderclap wanting to purr, could be heard on cool novelties like Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. His cheeks expanded so far past normal size when he played his horn that...