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When Liu Yuan started playing the sax, jazz was still seen as bourgeois and chord charts were hard to come by. Raised by folk-musician parents, he performed with Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock, before dedicating himself--under the influences of John Coltrane and Miles Davis--to jazz. Now Liu's East Shore is the most promising venue in Beijing's budding jazz scene. Located on the banks of Lake Houhai, East Shore is a refuge from the trinket sellers and gaudy bars along the crowded shore. Its large windows give clear views over the water, and leather...
...praying that people will like it, that it will hit a chord, and most of all, I’m praying that the spirit of God will be there,” he says. “And if it doesn’t work, back to the drawing board! I was ordained a month and a half...
...became a core member of what is known as Davis’s “second great quintet.” Through albums like “In A Silent Way” and “Filles de Kilimanjaro” the group fused the abstract, single-chord song forms of free jazz with the electric instruments of funk and rock, creating a sub-genre called “fusion” that held tremendous sway during the 1970s and 80s. Hancock left Davis’ group in 1968 and began a long experimental relationship with funk music...
...tiring. “Are You Lightning,” the next track, is very long and sleepy. It’s only followed by “I Like What You Say,” the album’s first single, which uses the same acoustic E chord for the entire song. At least this gives bassist Daniel Lorca, who weirdly resembles Kevin Spacey in a dreadlock wig, a lot of room for an interesting bass line. If it weren’t for the broken-record of a chorus, which just repeats “I like...
...DOESN'T LOVE mocking a really cheesy TV ad? But advertising can at times have the power to strike a deep chord and even spawn lasting pop-culture icons. Award-winning adman Philip Dusenberry, longtime chairman of BBDO North America, created those kinds of pitches. His magic, say his peers, was an intuitive sense of the emotional impact of his work. Before taking on the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and, in the wake of 9/11, New York City tourism ads, Dusenberry led such campaigns as "Pepsi: The Choice of a New Generation" (including, regrettably, the commercial in which...