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...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 and rap performers -- should further establish jazz-rap as pop's most dynamic new genre...
...sounds of jazz playing with the insistent rhythms of hip-hop. The jazz performances are often samples -- snippets of music from classic jazz records. These pieces of sound are then reassembled into a sonic collage and set to a new beat with a rapper speaking over them. On Blowout Comb, Digable Planets draws not only on jazz but on R. and B. as well. In addition to relying on samples, Planets employs live musicians on many of the tracks, a move that allows the songs to breathe and flow into extended jams. Pop songs tend to last about three minutes...
...mythic import of Episode 34. It was the first ConventioCon ExpoFest-a-Rama of cable TV's Mystery Science Theater 3000. On a recent weekend, fans paid $45 each (plus room and board) to bond with one another, meet the program's writer-performers, attend a live show, comb through old props, view rare tapes of early episodes and dress up for the Midwest's ginchiest costume ball...
...should be commended for what it achieved. What is important now is that a permanent body be instituted to plan our next democratic election in 1999. A body which will draw up a successful plan, train the necessary people and check the procedure with a fine-tooth comb so that the disastrous logistical errors which occurred this time around, cannot happen again...
While at Cornell, I watched three more Grant movies, and since then I've seen at least ten more-most of them his screwball comedies, some of them more than once. I comb the TV listings for his movies on AMC and once stayed up until 3 a.m. the morning before a chemistry test to watch "Bringing Up Baby" yet again...