Word: improvisationism
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During Mobutu's early years as President, he was hailed as an exemplar of the new breed of postcolonial African leader. He brought a fragile unity to his country, built schools and hospitals and forged a nonaligned approach to foreign policy. But as Zaire reeled under his economic mismanagement, compounded...
"I've taken some classes here and in high school. I just enjoy improvisation. I love the spontaneity of it."
With Charlie Haden, jazz is always contemporary -- relentlessly, implacably -- even when, as on Haunted Heart, he's taking a look back. "It's not about the past, because improvisation is really about being in the moment," he explains. "I'm talking about the past inspiring the present. That's what...
Both young actresses achieve an unforced naturalism in their work, and so does Anders, whose first major feature this is. A single mother (and once a welfare client), she is less interested in making melodrama -- or ideological points -- out of these lives than she is in showing how testy affection...
Although both rely on improvisation and solos, jazz and rap have never found much common ground. The great jazz trumpeter MILES DAVIS was in a recording studio trying to remedy this at the time he died last September. But the unfinished album, Doo-Bop, recorded with the rapper EASY MO...