Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekly writer's workshop helps 5 to 10 HRSFA members hone their skills in science fiction and other genres. Many of their pieces end up in Fusion, the group's magazine--pub- lished sporadically--and a few have gone on tosucceed as authors...
...really oughtn't to be shooting the breeze about l'amour and its ramifications when there are midterms to study for. Not, you tools. There are soooo many better things to do than studying for midterms. Like inventing cold fusion. Like making voodoo dolls. Like hitting on freshmen. Like plucking your eyebrows. Like contracting bubonic plague. Like chatting online...
...good news: the music is very impressive. Wally's serves up different fare throughout the week: Monday is Blues Night, Tuesday and Wednesday have fusion jazz, Thursday latin jazz, and the weekend offers straight-ahead jazz. Eager musicians--most of whom are Berklee College students--overcome the adversity of the ambience with inspired performances. The sight and sound of a saxophonist riffing the roof off is often enough to make patrons forget about the guy with bad breath breathing in their ear. Now for more good news: Wally's plans to expand into the space next door before...
...life, for Bitches Brew, a sonic eye opener that experimented with electric instruments and rock and funk rhythms--a strange, primal, remarkable album. Soon, however, a whole generation of musicians was squandering its talents on increasingly vapid (though profitable) jazz-rock hybrids that came to be called fusion. Known today as smooth jazz, or as "that crap they play when Regis and Kathie Lee go to commercial," fusion continues to thrive; it even has its own Billboard chart. But in more sober musical circles, it is considered a kind of moral stain...
...past, is in a more acquisitive mood. "It's like religion," Perez says. "We are all looking for the oneness in music. To me that's the force that moves an artist." Playfulness and wit seem to get a few licks in too, all of which may even give fusion a reputable name...