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...restless audience waited nearly an hour after the opening act-and three hours after the 8 p.m. door opening - before the Burning Band finally took the stage. This patience paid off. The Burning Band tore into the music from the Spear's most famous song, "Marcus Garvey," and got heads nodding and bodies bouncing immediately. After five minutes or so of this jam, Burning Spear finally joined his band on stage. With his shirt partly tucked and his tie loosely knotted, the Spear seemed to make a rather casual nod toward formality. After introducing the lyrics to another...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burning Down the House | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

Wynton Marsalis: Well, there's Marcus Roberts, a pianist from Jacksonville, Fl. He's a clear heavyweight...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazz Culture: Marsalis Blows His Own Trumpet | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...greatest artists are always those that are many men thick. That's a constant in the world of art. We're in a renaissance. The greatest musicians I know accept the whole history of music. Marcus Roberts, who I named before, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, these are artists who deal with all of the music. They're not being addressed properly, but they're here. The archaic thought that abstraction is the only way to be modern, I don't know who still believes in that. Also, the idea that one period of something defines it instead...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazz Culture: Marsalis Blows His Own Trumpet | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

Will car buyers love this throwback to the '50s as much as they do the New Beetle and the PT Cruiser? Here's a hint: the Dallas retailer Neiman Marcus has just offered a special edition of 200 T-Birds for sale in its 2000 Christmas catalog. When the phone lines opened in September, all 200 cars, priced at $41,999 each, were sold in 2 hrs. 15 min. That's more like a love bite than a mere peck on the cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Retro Vroom | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

MEDIA MIXER Souped-up cement mixer with 12 TV monitors, DVD and PlayStation 2 $70,000 at Neiman Marcus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Annals Of Wretched Excess | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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