Word: byrds
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Jazz-rappers don't just borrow from jazz's sound; they tap into its spirit, its artful soul and its cool. The music has successfully harnessed the sagacity of an older generation of performers with the rawness of a newer one. Says 61-year-old trumpeter Donald Byrd: "All of the jazz cats, everybody I talk to now, they want to get involved in this." Three new CDs -- Blowout Comb, Digable Planets' daringly laid-back sophomore album; Home, by the rap group Spearhead; and Red Hot and Cool: Stolen Moments, an aids-benefit CD featuring collaborations by various jazz...
...brilliant Stolen Moments is an openly contentious album. Most of the songs deal with aids, and each of the tunes pairs rappers with jazz performers -- rapper Guru with Donald Byrd, the spoken-word group the Last Poets with saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, Digable Planets with guitarist Wah Wah Watson and trumpeter Lester Bowie. Age is coupled with youth, cool with anger, and the result is music with a caustic beauty...
...David Byrd, treasurer of Washington Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's re-election committee, commenting on a federal investigation into possible fund-raising irregularities (February...
...here as that of the content within that form. Think of the sonnet--its construction is rigidly decreed, but poets have demonstrated time and time again that it is possible to transcend the apparent limitations of the sonnet, for within its confines, one can say whatever one wishes. Likewise, Byrd showed that it was possible to outstep the ostensible boundaries for plainsong writing by imbuing it with a passion (perhaps a bit cerebral by Romantic standards, but potent passion nevertheless) that stemmed from his religious frustration as a staunch Roman Catholic in Anglican England. Similarly, though Bach was "only...
...viol consort playing itself, the technical and artistic execution most enjoyable, and I especially appreciated the carefully treated passages where Byrd deliberately toyed with dissonance...