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QUINCY JONES (1933- ) Two months before Miles Davis' jazz-rock hybrid Bitches Brew came out in 1969, Jones released Walking in Space, a jazz-R.-and-B.-pop Fusion album that let air into the narrow confines of purist jazz. Jones would drift farther from his jazz roots, eventually producing Michael Jackson's Thriller album, but Walking in Space helped open the door to the electric-jazz...
...Fusion and "smooth" jazz certainly haven't burnished strings' reputation. But with the music's more ambitious players looking for ways to broaden jazz's sonic palette after a decade dominated by neotraditionalism, strings are back (the hipster vogue for lounge music probably hasn't hurt). The boomlet began with last year's McCoy Tyner recording of Burt Bacharach tunes--an appropriate enough context--and continues with new albums by Wynton Marsalis and the 29-year-old Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist David Sanchez, both on Columbia. Marsalis' record, The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Vol. 5, is his first standards...
...John Brown a saint for his raid on Harper's Ferry and where the Mason-Dixon feels about as far south as the equator. Around here, good Southern cooking is as hard to find as the old Stars and Bars. But who really cares, when the result of a fusion of Southern and yuppie cuisine can be as good as it is at Magnolias...
...practiced and refined for centuries, filled with carefully measured plies and set to the most classic of classical music? Is it a modern art, a dramatic outlet for expression, sprinkled with eclectic costumes and moving semi-rhythmically to sounds rather than music? Could it possibly be--gasp--a fusion of both? Should a performance like that be even labeled "ballet...
...despite the awkward ending on which the evening ends, Boston Ballet's Body Electric stands out as a fusion of quality art and aesthetic enjoyment, of pleasure for the eye and ear. Although each of the dances stands out as an original work, one firm string ties them all together: pushing the boundaries (and creating new ones) of expression through human movement. "Waterbaby Bagatelles" questions those boundaries. "Four Hands" celebrates them. And "Celts" puts them to a great rhythm. For that and that alone, Body Electric transcends all questions about the purpose of art and becomes, quite simply great...