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Fusion is back, although it never really went away, as the piles of gold lying around Kenny G.'s house would prove if only we could see them. Confused? Here's a brief refresher...
...year recession, the deepest since WWII, and its debt-riddled banks fresh out of investment capital, the occasional TGIM shopping day looks a lot like too little, too late. And there's still no guarantee that the Japanese, known as compulsive savers, won't just buy $250 in gold and bury it in the backyard...
...there's a lot more to jazz than just a catchy beat. There were whole new chords and phrases and key changes--and moods--that the rag writers hadn't even touched yet. From 1919 to 1924 these would virtually serve as Gershwin's private playground and personal gold mine, from which the Brooklyn-born son of immigrants proceeded to extract all kinds of music, including, in one glittering shovelful, not just his famous Rhapsody but also a related song called The Man I Love. This would beget almost instantly a new kind of American song, exemplified by Porter...
...time, a whole new generation of talent had broken into Gershwin's gold mine and was digging away merrily for songs like Stardust, Stormy Weather and Dancing in the Dark. Even established writers like Jerome Kern and Vincent Youmans began to swing a little with Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Time on My Hands, respectively. But no matter what anyone else did, Gershwin seemed to stay at least two moves ahead, causing Youmans reportedly to mutter "so the son of a bitch thought of it" every time Gershwin struck again...
DIED. FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER, 38, incandescent American sprinter and winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics; of undetermined causes; in Mission Viejo, Calif. (see Eulogy, below...