Word: chord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walking With a Panther has more to it than just unorthodox rhymes, however. LL is at his best when he brags, and the first track of the album, "Droppin' Em," is classic Cool J. The hard, funk-like guitar chord and the heavy, drum beat work well to compliment LL's "I'm hard-as-hell" attitude...
...students have struck an ancient chord in Chinese history," explains Thomas Bernstein, a China scholar and chairman of Columbia University's political science department. "It is the idea of the scholar-official who remonstrates with the emperor about some evil in the kingdom that the ruler should put right. The emperor won't listen, and the scholar-official takes his own life as a witness, or sacrifice, to the higher good." By casting themselves in the role of the scholar-official, the students have become the bearers of that tradition...
...order for this drama of lust and confused identities to work as comedy--in order for each mistaken identity and preposterous coincidence to work, and in order for Wilde's infamous epigrams to strike the proper chord--actors' timing and enunciation must be absolutely flawless. This is where the mannered performances come in. Instead of being annoying, the pseudo-Brit accents tighten the dialogue and actually make each word shimmer...
...couple of hundred dollars. Besides having model numbers that make them sound like racing cars, boards like the Yamaha DX7IIFD look like the instrument panel of a new Ferrari prototype. The Roland E-20 ($2,500) even has a liquid-crystal display window that flashes such information as the chord being played and the tempo being used, expressed in beats per minute. Looking at a readout to see what chord you are playing can be a hotdog move, like a weekend racer eyeing his tachometer to check how he is doing...
Roberts and Rouse manage to complement each other well on this tune. Robert supplies just the right amount of light chord action when Rouse, who played with Monk in the 1960s, give his instrument his all. In addition, the bassist, Reginald Veal, also does a bang up job. Veal, who is currently a member of the Marsalis quintet, not only blends well with Roberts and Rouse, but he successfully explores a wide variety of interesting themes during his solo...