Word: bopping
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...band of the '80s, to go solo, Byrne has found his muse in the unexpected: an album of Latin salsa (1989's Rei Momo) and a mystical orchestral soundscape (last year's The Forest). Now Byrne has transplanted his rock roots into fertile tropical soil. In UH-OH (Luaka Bop), / released last week, jangling electric-guitar riffs alternate with piquant Caribbean rhythms, often in the same song, while Byrne aims his quirky intelligence at sex-change operations, domestic discord and even the Deity: "Well God can turn the world around/ And he can push it in the dirt...
This helped him get his TV show in 1956 -- he was the first major black entertainer to have a regular network program -- but didn't do a whole lot for him in the jazz community, which had been buffeted by bop and the restless experimentation of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. Cole began to look like a silken technician who'd sold his soul. One of the best things about this Mosaic set is that it helps to correct that impression and shows Cole for the artist he was. He wasn't corrupted by the mainstream. He used...
Saturday: Bad Manners with Bop Harvey and Monks of Doom...
Like he delivers for Federal Express. No one believes he's a killer, El Supremo, Dr. Death. So this week Holyfield, who's 28, is going to bop this 42- year-old fat guy, George Foreman, on the beezer in Atlantic City. When Holyfield was in fourth grade, Foreman was heavyweight champ...
Black-shirted muscular bouncers bop around the room. Most are Harvard students...