Word: jazzed
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...reassemble the parts in startlingly creative ways, and then perform it with a passion that nobody has previously dared. Thus the campfire dirge Five Hundred Miles becomes a spine-tingling R&B ballad, dripping with anguish. The Beatles' chirpy Can't Buy Me Love is transformed into a complex jazz exercise, incorporating some of the Karnatakan rhythmic phrases of Ponnudorai's South Indian ancestry. The Cascades' saccharine Rhythm of the Rain metamorphoses into the purest Burt Bacharach, with unexpected chord changes and lush melodic lines...
...Going Anywhere, her first in English, that got the interest of the hipster crowd on American shores, which continued with 2004's Nolita, named after her Manhattan neighborhood and imbued with her time spent there. In addition to her own albums, she has written for others, including octogenarian jazz and bass nova icon Henri Salvador, and a side project with Icelandic musician Bardi Johannson called Lady & Bird...
...doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people ? it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. The last chapter of my book is about...
...doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people - it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. The last chapter of my book is about...
...says. “I grew up in a traditional Italian family that felt wholesome kids should play an instrument.” He began playing the piano at age five, and studied classical artists until high school. It was then that he began to explore jazz and musicals.The experience that would lead to Musico’s continued involvement with the performing arts occurred when he participated in Harvard’s Freshman Arts Program (FAP). “Meeting 39 other people with common interests was comforting,” he says. “It convinced...