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...using Duchamp, because my class is specifically about music. But I use John Cage. Cage was enamoured of Duchamp and his work, and they played chess together every day.” To many of us, the return to academia after a ten-year stint as a freewheeling musician might seem incongruous. And indeed, although Krukowski looks back with fondness at his time at Harvard, he freely admits that, as a graduate student, he disliked the teaching. Yet, it only takes a few minutes of conversation to see his genuine enthusiasm for art’s more bookish side...
DIED. RAY BARRETTO, 76, Grammy-winning "godfather" of Latin jazz; in Hackensack, N.J. Renowned for integrating the conga into jazz, he decided to become a musician after hearing a Dizzy Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...
...upbeat drum part to this song instantly for me conjures up memories of my youngest brother and aspiring musician jamming away diligently in our basement in Chicago. Living as far away from home as most of us do at school, cultural artifacts that resonate with the people and relationships we left behind, as thing song does for me, really have a way of giving you goosebumps...
...police,” should play a law enforcement stoolie. Worse, his character echoes the worst tendencies of the bourgeois ethos: he abandons his creative endeavors to become more fiscally successful. “Barbershop” is a complete repudiation of everything that Cube stood for as a musician. When did the self-described “nigga you love to hate” become so thoroughly inoffensive...
...four-hour series, part one of which aired yesterday, chronicles the quests of Gates, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, actress Whoopi Goldberg, astronaut Mae Jemison, musician Quincy Jones, televangelist T.D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and fellow Harvard professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as they trace their family trees all the way back to Africa...