Word: funk
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...what I’ve always loved. I derive so much inspiration from people I’m playing with and the connection you make when you’re playing with people,” he says. “Whether I’m playing funk or jazz or classical, one of the things I think I do naturally is connecting with other people when I play...
Sophomore Tyler Funk won the men’s high jump, with a leap of 1.96 meters, and freshman Jakob Lindaas finished first in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:41.60. It was only Lindaas’s second time participating in the event...
Luckily, the music—even closer to pure pop than Byrne’s Talking Heads work—is fantastic. Fatboy Slim brings a processed, electronic-tinged danceability to a collection that evokes the disco funk of New York’s Studio 54, where Marcos was famous for dancing with celebrities like Andy Warhol. Warhol is actually name-dropped on “Dancing Together,” which features a mix of crashing drums and a funky bass line that make it the album’s closest approximation to both disco...
...band’s jazzy accompaniment of Chainey’s soulful voice adds a funk that brings forth her sassy truck driver attitude. Conducted by Mark R. Parker ’12, the band does not overpower, but instead complements the vocal performances...
...ebbing of Britain's manufacturing prowess - and the way in which shifts in the global economy can strip a place of jobs like a hurricane takes leaves off a tree - then its main street captures a national mood of hopelessness and anger. All of Britain is in a deep funk: although its economy is finally growing after a prolonged recession, that growth is so tender that many fear it will shrivel and give way to a second, deeper contraction. Britons are downcast, their politicians discredited. In one of the world's oldest democracies, there's little enthusiasm for the national...