Word: jazzing
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Music Blocks NEUROSMITH, $69.95 When it comes to brain-building toys, Music Blocks rules. Kids accidentally learn a lot as they arrange the blocks to play back various musical sequences in genres ranging from classical to jazz...
...background right now, the smoky, seductive and timeless music Davis and his legendary sidemen--chiefly John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans--committed to tape in a studio on the east side of Manhattan 41 years ago. Kind of Blue is more than simply one of the best-selling jazz albums ever; it is also nothing less than the sound track to the lives of several generations of loners and romantics. There are people quoted in these books who remember the first time they heard the two-note signature riff of its first cut, So What, as vividly as they...
...church of jazz," writes Kahn, whose book is much the better of the pair, "Kind of Blue is one of the holy relics." If so, it's a relic with no saint in its provenance. Davis was an angry, hostile man whose distance from his audience grew in proportion to his increasing renown. But in the first half of his career, at least, he managed to sublimate his various rages and resentments via some of the most beautiful creations in American musical history...
...album's most ambitious and accomplished song. Badu, 29, says the number is about her breakup with rapper Andre Benjamin, of the Atlanta-based group OutKast, who is the father of her three-year-old son Seven. The suite is divided into three "movements," beginning with a Holiday-esque jazz ditty ("Denial"), moving to a soul-infused second part ("Acceptance") and culminating in a cathartic final passage ("The Relapse"). The suite, which lasts 10 minutes although it never feels long, is a testament to her skill as a songwriter; it's highly personal but never indulgent...
...think that any of these pieces got their best performance at their premiere. And they've now been performed in many different ways. There are jazz versions of Handel's Messiah, there are Christian Rock versions also. Things become a masterpiece by subsequent people acknowledging them as such. Other things are masterpieces because you can just look or listen and say, "This is a masterpiece." The Rite of Spring was hated at its premiere. But it was still a masterpiece then, in absolute terms...