Word: funking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...circle is now complete. Again. John Scofield, master guitarist and long touted as one of the “big three” of the six strings company that includes Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell is back. In another phase of a career founded on jazz-funk fusion that later moved on to more straight jazz, and then returned to his rookie days, Scofield has turned around once again. On the North American leg of a world tour, Scofield stopped in for a four-night set on March 7 at the Regattabar, for an event that seemed as much...
...indeed have skirted that recession - look at Friday's unemployment numbers for the latest clue - and tech toughs like Cisco, at $15, may indeed be underpriced. Certainly, the bulls' Holy Grail these days is that someday soon, there'll be no earnings disappointments left to deepen Wall Street's funk - and Dell filled that role on Wednesday...
...selection committee included Avery; Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck; Susan M. Vacca '76, Associate Director and Librarian in the FAS Office of Career Services; Corinne Funk '97, emeritas member of the Executive Board of the Women's Leadership Project; and Amy Zegart '89, a member of the Women's Leadership Project Advisory Board...
...Nothing but Your Love, had its second single, Masquerade, released in early March. To lend a little more verve to his R. and B., he has roped in some heavyweight collaborators, such as Pras, The Roots, Angie Stone and Raphael Saadiq. The result: an album that is part basement-funk, part hip-hop?and all slammin' grooves. "You can smell the soul," he says, "and you can feel the temperature like hip-hop. But at the same time you can taste something like sushi...
...point might be Blur's Graham Coxon. The quintessential Britpop guitarist surprised a lot of people with his lovely and overlooked (if somewhat slight) The Sky Is Too High in 1998. Similarly, Frusciante's brand new album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, will confound anyone expecting a funk workout reminiscent of his day job. Like Coxon, Frusciante prefers to wind down on his own time, and in this case the results are 15 short, pretty and mostly laid-back pop songs...