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Jazz-rappers don't just borrow from jazz's sound; they tap into its spirit, its artful soul and its 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...
...brilliant Stolen Moments is an openly contentious album. Most of the songs deal with aids, and each of the tunes pairs rappers with jazz performers -- rapper Guru with Donald Byrd, the spoken-word group the Last Poets with saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, Digable Planets with guitarist Wah Wah Watson and trumpeter Lester Bowie. Age is coupled with youth, cool with anger, and the result is music with a caustic beauty...
...staff the casino with 9,000 craps dealers, bartenders and other workers. But fully 56% of the nearly 1,300 employees who arrived after losing their jobs at local defense contractors like Electric Boat had to take pay cuts of at least $2,500 a year, according to Donald Peppard, a Connecticut College economist. One welder- turned-security guard was making $23,000 less than he had been earning. The workers who came from service jobs fared considerably better. Peppard found most earning at least $2,500 more than in their old positions...
Administration: Susan Lynd, Denise A. Carres, Sheila Charney, Donald N. Collins, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...
...accounts, the campaign was influenced by the sharp disparity in fundraising. According to treasurer Donald H. Veach, SOCC raised only $160,000 for its campaign, compared to the $650,000 raised...