Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike other anti-heroes America has mythologized, from Billy the Kid to Bugsy Siegel, Cube's gangsta persona has a moral compass. But apparently he hasn't found magnetic north yet: The Predator ends with the shooting of a corrupt cop as he reaches for a doughnut...
...still vital folk lineage. Folk now can comfortably encompass the salty sensitivity and social speculation of Willie Nile's Hard Times in America (Polaris) as well as the rap-inflected rage of the Native American activist John Trudell on AKA/ Grafitti Man (Ryko). It has a newer, wider compass, and, as ever, Bob Dylan is magnetic north...
...violated the law and we are very disturbedby it. His moral compass is messed up," Mullensaid
...maps of a semispheric earth that (more or less) accurately located such distant places as Iceland and Ceylon. Improvements in rigging enabled the construction of larger, more maneuverable ships with both square-rigged and fore-and-aft sails. The development of the quadrant (an Arabic invention) and magnetic compass (possibly from China) made navigation more accurate; the stern- fastened rudder made ship handling easier...
Haden, who still plays with Coleman occasionally, continues to have a wide compass for inspiration. His music, especially the Liberation Music Orchestra material, can turn toughly political; he was once arrested in Portugal for dedicating one of his songs to black liberation movements in Africa. He has founded a department of jazz studies at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, where he lives with his second wife Ruth Cameron. He has four children; all are musicians who have in their father a man who has already left a profound mark on contemporary jazz...