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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drums, its heavy, muscular feel is very different from the delicate beauty of the final version. Many will be hard-pressed to recognize it as "Little Wing" --it seems more like Hendrix's "Angel," an early demo of which is also included on this collection. This "Angel" is much closer in feel to the almost final version available on First Rays, but is marred by the sound of the primitive drum machine Hendrix was using to keep time...

Author: By Abraham J. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Curious Mix of Mauve Haze | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...GORE Tick-tock, tick-tock. Reno had no choice. Still, she's getting closer. Al phones home for legal help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 13, 1997 | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...world has never been closer to nuclear war than it was 35 years ago, during the heart-stopping days of the Cuban missile crisis. The confrontation started when the Soviet Union began covertly shipping into Fidel Castro's Cuba 72 nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, capable of wiping out U.S. cities from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. American U-2 spy planes spotted them, and on Oct. 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy began 13 days of crisis meetings with senior advisers in what he called the Executive Committee of the National Security Council. As the wise men secretly gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAGEDDON'S ECHOES | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...vows of celibacy and poverty, divorced from everyday life and supported by a community of lay members." Even if the majority of American Buddhism seems to be fleeing such an ideal, he remains convinced that especially within the Tibetan tradition there exists a promising community, and individuals "slowly coming closer and closer to the institutional breakthrough, who could live that way with a lifelong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...sound, in the end, was the whole point. For Miles, there was always a challenge around the corner. Having already proved that he could master the world of jazz, he had set his sights on new horizons--unexplored sonic worlds where he could maybe get a little bit closer to what he was always looking for. Bobby Previte writes in the liner notes to Philharmonic Hall that "The sense that it's impossible for us, and no one with any feel would want it any other way." For Miles, it was the journey that mattered. As these albums testify, during...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kind of Blue And Very Live | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

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