Word: jazzing
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Much of the credit for the concert's success must be given to the band. The Burning Band horns' slide and two-step dance was reminiscent of James Brown's bands, while their horn lines were full of jazz and folk riffs. It is the band that must be given much of the credit for raising the energy level of some of Burning Spear's more recent tunes, such as "Calling Rastafari" and "Statue of Liberty," both of which are rather low-key on the recorded versions...
...movies have always had a problem with race. The first talking film, The Jazz Singer, was, of course, about a white guy in blackface. And don't get me started on Driving Miss Daisy, or the fact that the black guy who played the fourth Ghostbuster didn't get to do much of anything. But recently, Hollywood has been working especially hard to establish two onscreen stereotypes. The first is the Magical African-American Friend. Along with Bagger Vance, MAAFs appear in such films as What Dreams May Come (1998), the upcoming Family Man (co-starring Don Cheadle) and last...
...work in question is somehow hard to enjoy and impossible to understand. Wu-Tang's lyrics and intentions can be perversely oblique, but their music manages to be both experimental and populist at the same time. Wu-Tang's songs have the loose but intricate feel of late-night jazz jams - they're artfully crafted but emotionally...
...look at many younger jazz musicians, there seems to be something of a rejection of any jazz artists who came before alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and any music that established before the hard bop movement of the 1950s...
Albums like Guru's Jazzmatazz Streetsoul make it hard to cram music into genres like hip-hop or blues or jazz or rock. The album announces its intentions right from the intro to the first track: "This joint here is one of the hottest blends of hip-hop, soul, R&B and jazz ever, defining a whole new style of music...