Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MUSIC . . . NEW MOON DAUGHTER: On jazz singer Cassandra Wilson's latest CD, Wilson covers a broad musical spectrum with jazz versions of songs by U2, Neil Young, The Monkees. "The album marks a new high point for the 40-year-old Wilson, who over the past two decades has become America's most important and daring jazz vocalist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Her voice has the heavy, rolling darkness of a storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief...
...Pliny pattern persists. The scientific side of the observer's mind demands objective evidence, as the great naturalist usually did; but the brain's mythopoeic, magic-thinking side is lured to marvels--to alchemy, to spells, to bat people on the moon or aliens on other planets. Can these matters be addressed with a whole mind? Can the two instincts of the brain--Einstein and Elvis-sighting--be made to fit together like compatible spoons...
Noah Wildman, office manager for Moon Records NYC, the four-person, all-ska label that produced the record describes Skavoovie's music as "a very swingy kind of traditional...
...Moon's decision to sign the band was based on numerous live appearances by Skavoovie. "This is a band that is deserving of an album and we have the resources, so we did it," he says. "It's a question of quality, really...
...that for making videos and promoting her music. As is true with the film industry, a new monetary bench mark like Jackson's becomes the standard by which every star in town measures his or her ego. "The bigger the deals get, obviously everybody starts to shoot for the moon," says Bob Krasnow, former chairman of Elektra Records who now runs his own record label for MCA. "The marquee value of a well-known artist's name means a lot." Accordingly, R.E.M., the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon--all of whom have deals that are close to expiring--will probably...