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...During the Big Band era, drummers unobtrusively maintained a song's rhythm. As a founding father of the revolutionary genre of bebop, visionary bandleader Max Roach made percussion a star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown...
That brutality is sometimes hard to watch. The women will also have to KO several other daunting challenges to catch the men. Women's boxing, for one, had a nice late-'90s run, but there weren't enough talented fighters to challenge big names like Laila Ali. "There are very skilled women in MMA, but there's going to be a smaller pool [than the men]," notes Ken Hershman, the sports programming GM at Showtime. And at the end of the day, the women must realize that, for the most part, they will still be sold as entertainment...
DEFINITION kon-flikt ko-ko n: Profits from the cocoa trade used to finance civil war in Africa's Ivory Coast...
...team’s final match against Dartmouth, the Crimson finally put it all together. Mukundan and Brook won their doubles match, as did Ko and Gottlieb. Harvard then dominated the singles, with wins from Ko, Litvak, Mukundan, and Forgie for an overall 5-2 victory...
While Harvard did not qualify for the NCAA Championship, Ko qualified for the individual championship, losing in the first round...