Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tealuxe is part student hangout, part intellectual den and part tourist stop. A mixture of quirkiness and stylishness, there is nostalgia in the 20s and 30s jazz music wafting in the air, accompanying the retro first-half-of the 20th century decor...
...dancing to the beat of his own heart. A device modified by artist Christopher Janney will capture electrical impulses passing between Baryshnikov's head, heart and feet and use them to regulate musical accompaniment, making the dancer's body the conductor. "My work is like a visual jazz," says Janney. Amplifying nature's rhythms is Janney's specialty. He built what may be the largest piece of interactive public art ever--a 180-ft.-high mosaic of colored glass--in the Miami airport. What's interactive about it? The mosaic reacts to human contact, emitting sounds of the Everglades. Janney...
...memory of Ennis, the Cosby family has chartered the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation to aid people who suffer--as Ennis did--from dyslexia. Verve Records has just released a jazz album produced by Bill Cosby, with part of the proceeds to benefit the foundation. The disc features an all-star band playing standards--and an original penned by Bill himself that's actually pretty good, with a kind of mid-'60s Bluenote thing going on. --Reported by James Willwerth/Los Angeles
...ERYKAH BADU BADUIZM (Kedar Entertainment/Universal) Some singers can break your heart; Badu can put it back together again. Her neo-soul songcraft draws from soul, jazz, blues and hip-hop--but instead of a chaotic swirl of sound, the result is a slow-burning, meditative album that brings all these genres together. This is healing music about magic and love, racism and reincarnation, late-night parties and Afro picks. Badu's voice is a natural wonder, sharp and metallic, wounded and sad, yearning for empathy in one song, decrying injustice in the next. Her brilliant companion CD, Live, which captures...
Writing mostly for large ensemble, Roberts has an almost cinematic gift for juxtaposition. To those familiar with similar works by Marsalis, passages of New Orleans polyphony and Ellingtonian coloration will not be unexpected; surprises include raucous group improvisations that flirt with free jazz cacophony. But where Marsalis' music sometimes suffers from overthinking--forced passes from an all-pro quarterback--Blues rarely falters in its grooves. Thanks are due to irresistible rhythm sections, some compelling young soloists, and Roberts' compositional wit as he muscles his group through changes in rhythm and genre. This is a heady album, but it doesn...