Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The union of hip-hop and jazz has gone from oddity to commodity in just one year. In 1993 the rap trio Digable Planets released its jazzy, idiosyncratic debut album Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space); since then the record has sold more than 500,000 copies and...
Jazz-rappers don't just borrow from jazz's sound; they tap into its spirit, its artful soul and its cool. The music has successfully harnessed the sagacity of an older generation of performers with the rawness of a newer one. Says 61-year-old trumpeter Donald Byrd: "All of...
The form combines the rich sounds of jazz playing with the insistent rhythms of hip-hop. The jazz performances are often samples -- snippets of music from classic jazz records. These pieces of sound are then reassembled into a sonic collage and set to a new beat with a rapper speaking...
Another barrier to sending robots to the planets is weight: every pound you launch into space is expensive. At nearly a ton, Dante II would break the bank. Whittaker is already thinking about lighter models, though. And while NASA's Lavery cautions that Dante II is still "far from any...
--Confirmed the abundance of protoplanetary disks of dust surrounding nearly half the stars in the Orion Nebula , which suggests many stars in our galaxy possess planets.