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SINCE Prince achieved commercial success with the Purple Rain sound-track four years ago, he has been edging steadily away from its rock-like sounds. He has turned out an album every May since 1984, each with very diverse, direction-seeking tracks. Each has had sounds ranging from Minneapolis funk to samba to "house" music to the psychedelic...
...Lovesexy, his latest recording, Prince seems to have found a single direction. What he calls the "New Power Soul" sound is a funk sound which moves the listener right along without being too forceful in the beat. As a result, a highly orchestrated sound plays against Sheila Es drums...
...Fair," which was commissioned by the Harvard Jazz Band this year. "Harvard Fair" is what Schickele deadpans as being "a straight, as opposed to a gay, piece." Schickele contends that he "has always written serious music." He describes his style of jazz as being a "down home, post-bop funk that falls somewhere between free from and Dixieland...
...that Lee lacks technical ability is imprecise and unfair. Remember, six million bucks is peanuts, especially for a musical. The musical numbers in Daze don't work because they don't seem to fit the film. Instead of using younger styles of music like rap or funk, Lee used mostly jazz, which creates an old-fashioned feel to numbers that should be boisterous. These show bad choice, and not lack of ability...
...strip north of 42nd Street. With its theaters, odd shops and even odder people, Times Square remains a singularly exciting place. But the balance between high life and low life did tip for the worse during the 1960s and '70s. Pornography merchants proliferated, and street criminals grew more brazen. Funk and festivity were too often edged out by rattiness and fear...