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...style for everyone: the cool sound of Pianist Bill Evans, 48, with his sophisticated classical harmonies; the loosely structured, rather chaotic-sounding "free" jazz of such revolutionaries as Ornette Coleman, 48, Cecil Taylor, 45, and Sam Rivers, 47. Master Pianists Chick Corea, 37, and Herbie Hancock, 38, were into "fusion" music, a blending of jazz with rock's electronic sound. A tribute to the Latin influence on jazz starred the formidable massed bands of Tito Puente and Machito. There was even a special last-minute entry: Irakere, a jazz-rock Cuban group whose members had been granted visas just...
...real gold dust is not in the oldies but in fusion, which is essentially watered-down jazz, with simpler chords and harmonies, traces of rhythm-and-blues and Latin music, and rock's heavy electronic sound and beat. Miles Davis, 52, who created the "cool" bop sound back in the late '40s, with its relaxed delivery and complex harmonies, also fashioned the first fusion in 1970 with his revolutionary Bitches Brew album. It retained jazz soloing but incorporated electric bass and guitar and a Rhodes electric piano. The result sounded mellow, upbeat and had a heavier rhythm than...
...characters painted with a thick brush. Only it is as if the long black strokes suddenly begin to drip down with the sheer weight of the paint and hence bulge at the ends like some monstrous pseudopodia of amoebae. This biomorphis is a common feature of the works--the fusion of natural and artificial objects is like that of Jean Arp, the founder of the Zurich Dada movement who later associated with both Surrealists and Abstractionists. "Le Samourai" brings to mind one of the anthropomorphisizing and metamorphosizing images of Arp: "A stone voice face to face and foot to foot...
There has never been anything polite about Reed's music, then or now; not a laid-back note or a smug lie. Reed has seen his poetry published in the Paris Review and Fusion, and both stubborn bards and diehard rock 'n' rollers will recognize-maybe even sympathize with-the sentiments expressed in the chorus of a new Reed tune...
...splitting-of such radioactive materials as uranium and plutonium, H-bombs work by fusing isotopes of the simplest and lightest element, hydrogen, into slightly heavier atoms of helium, although they still require a small fission "trigger" to reach the sunlike temperatures (tens of millions of degrees) required for fusion...