Word: jazzing
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...wave of the current American taste for jam-bands. But there are certainly jammier bands out there, even if Matthews was hawking his guitar-sax-violin combo back in the days when such a set up might be all it took to get you sandwiched between world music and jazz in musical limbo. Nor do his discerning ear and talented band seem to warrant the encomiums accorded him—there are far more talented bands going entirely unnoticed and most radio-listeners still don’t know who Jeff Buckley...
...today at the Boston Center for the Arts. “Futures Begin” features the individual murals of sixteen student artists. They are all veterans of the larger summer program which, with the supervision of professional artists, produces colorful and sometimes stunning public art—the jazz-inspired panels on the decaying doorway of the “Blue Store” in Dudley Square and a sepia barbershop scene in Roslindale, among many others, often painted over grafittied or otherwise run-down walls...
...please...” Fern says. “If you want to see Charlie dance you have to have a specific CD called Eon,” referring to an acid jazz group...
Other voluntary American imports include baseball, art, jazz, Hollywood and missionaries. Cohen asserts that American efforts to impose cultural change in Asia have failed, but does cite Japan as a positive example of forced “Americanization.” Though he admts that some Japanese are saddened at the loss of native culture, he argues that “we must remember what the Japanese have gained as part of their Americanization: the right to think critically, to read whatever they want, to choose whatever mix of cultures they please. Obviously, they think the price is right...
...mercifully unique sensibility. In the song from his Grammy-winning album The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, the eager-to-offend rapper fantasizes about raping his mother and killing women not related to him. The melody to Kill You, however, is being claimed by someone else. French jazz pianist and composer Jacques Loussier, whose works seem to draw more from Bach and Vivaldi than from John Wayne Gacy, has filed a copyright-infringement suit alleging that Kill You lifts portions of Loussier's 20-year-old song Pulsion. The Frenchman is seeking $10 million and the destruction...