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...Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ, with intermittent help from a house rapper and three Caribbean dancehall rappers...
...tune that did come off very well involved a vinyl recording of Maya Angelou reading her Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." DJ Apollo sampled and scratched Angelou's voice over a relaxed beat one verse at a time, each one followed by emphatic Marsalis horn lines that cleverly reflected and refracted the intonation of Angelou's speech. The effect was very cool indeed...
Efforts to reach Levy and Pengelly last nightwere unsuccessful. The concert featured four discjockeys: DJ LP, Day Nuts, Mike D and DJ SugarChild, and five rap groups, who were voted on by anumber of judges...
...Council is considering either financing a DJ and decorating a dining hall for the dance or holding the event at the Spaghetti Club...
Eliot's dance attendees exhibited the "Love sucks" attitude, requesting the DJ to play such tunes as "I Will Survive," Grease's "You Better Shape Up ('cause I need a man)" and the always bitter "Love Bites." About fifty students danced hard under a strobe light, and according to second-year grad student Tony Zhang, had "a really good time." Leverett's dance attracted roughly two hundred students (mostly first-years and Leverett house residents) with the promise that "the first 100 will receive a kiss" -a rich, sweet Hershey's kiss. An additional perk was the personal ad board...