Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole focus here is the story," says Redford, who grew up the son of a Los Angeles milkman in a neighborhood sandwiched by Beverly Hills and the barrio. Those clashing cultures, mixed with an interest in jazz and the Beat scene, infused in him a lifelong, insatiable desire for untold stories in alternative voices...
...downloads or hardware sales by buying a company (Beyond.com or Onsale, respectively), Amazon developed the latest areas in-house. It shows, as Amazon extends its knowledgeable-storekeeper role to the new product offerings. Just as kindly advice from former Rolling Stone editors already suggests the essential music CDs every jazz or drum and bass lover should own, there are pointers on educational toys from Dr. Penelope Leach, a pediatrician and child-rearing expert Amazon has brought in. Amazon head Jeff Bezos also spoke Monday about expanding the new buying guides in the electronics area into the kind of full-fledged...
...Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Despite the subject, the mood is never dour. Nearly every track has the liquid warmth of a freshly shed tear. This 28-year-old pianist is a wonder at weaving together musical traditions. On his last album, playing in a trio, he performed a moving jazz rendition of a song by the art-rock group Radiohead; on this CD, playing solo, he smoothly merges jazz improvisation with classical piano. A few of the tracks search for meaning and melody, but on songs like Resignation, Mehldau achieves an almost spiritual resonance, chords echoing like amens...
Ellison (who had tried both music and painting as careers) did not introduce modernism to his chosen art form as Ellington did. Rather, he introduced black music to literary modernism, creating in his first novel, Invisible Man, a symphony of magisterial jazz riffs centered on Carl Jung's claims that "the Negro...lives within [the American's] skin, subconsciously," and on the firm belief, shared with Bearden and Ellington, that it is the self--the black self, however buffeted by racism--that is the ultimate repository of one's fate. Destiny and liberation were inextricably tied to the solitary will...
...novel's action takes place on what we assume to be the Senator's deathbed in the form of remembered riffs of sermons, folktales, signifying and the dozens, in an often dazzling extended call-and-response pattern suggestive of two dueling horns in an after-hours gig at a jazz club...