Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rivbea sounds Rivers' own extended free-form music: "Spontaneous on-the-spot creation and improvisation." Perhaps the most vital avant-garde spawning ground of all is Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a collective that was created in 1965. It encompasses all styles from straight African rhythms to bebop to the avant-garde's specialty: grunts and wails and bizarre instrumental effects that were ignored during bebop's preoccupation with fluency and speed. A.A.C.M.'s alumni include two emerging jazz stars: Saxophonist Anthony Braxton, 33, and Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams...
...ever greater use of Caribbean and Latin rhythms, which Gillespie introduced in the 1940s, along with the Eastern influence passed on from Coltrane. But the past 20 years have been a time of consolidation from the days of the jazz greats -Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Miles Davis-and not creation. There is no new force on the scene now, and everyone is waiting. Says Rivers: "The cycle is getting ready to go into another violent period, in a sparks-flying sense." Gillespie, for one, is ready. "When our bebop music came along, there was a lot of opposition...
...replaced by other flower-like faces which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow sand." The minutes stolen for reflection concern the values of action vs. creation: "I ought not to have written; if the world were clear, art would not exist...
...April 26, I introduced a resolution calling for the creation of a capital pool for purposes similar to those outlined in your Essay. I believe firmly that the expansion of markets in the developing countries will lead to higher levels of employment and domestic activity in the industrialized countries...
...piece of the traditional share-out of office after a Presidential victory, being named Secretary of War in 1928. Later Franklin Roosevelt, making the war a bipartisan effort, sent Hurley, now accoutered as a major general, to negotiate with Chiang K'ai-shek for both the creation of a coalition government between Communists and Nationalists...