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...Jarreau has long transcended the fusion label, and in fact a fresh listening of some of his albums of the period - especially the live recording Look to the Rainbow (1977) and its studio follow-up All Fly Home (1978) - reveal them to be masterpieces of risk-taking and exuberance, eluding easy categorization. That's fitting for a man who remains the only performer to win Grammy Awards in three different styles: pop, R&B and jazz. "He works the cracks between all of those genres," says San Francisco Chronicle pop-music critic Joel Selvin. But most critics agree that Jarreau...
...dragons that shoot real flames and other art installations that, well, wouldn't be possible anywhere else. Here in the Black Rock desert, a sandstorm caused a white out last Monday and again on Saturday, but on this day, it was clear and windless. Irving, bare-chested beneath a rainbow-colored vest, and a straw pith helmet festooned with a lei of red, purple, blue and yellow silk flowers, looked like he'd just arrived. Which, come to think of it, he had, after a two-day drive in a truck from his summer place in Montana...
...political class. Combined with her own Southside roots - she went to high school with Santita Jackson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson's daughter - Michelle's job gave her husband entrée into the best political machine in Illinois, augmenting her ties to Jackson's powerful civil rights group, Rainbow Push...
...what he preaches: the seemingly unlimited power of people who are willing to trust, cooperate and compromise. Bringing people together for action, what he calls "organizing," holds "the promise of redemption." And without exactly saying it, Obama offers himself as the embodiment of his own message, the one-man rainbow coalition. You don't believe white and black can peacefully, productively coexist? Think the gulf between Chicago's South Side and the Harvard Law Review can never be bridged? Do you fear that the Muslim masses of Africa and Asia are incompatible with the modernity of the West or that...
...back at Stax Records in Memphis there must have been astonished cheers. Hayes had become the first African American to win a music Oscar (or, indeed, an Oscar in any category except for acting). But that belated recognition was less a harbinger of enlightenment than a blip on the rainbow radar. No black musician would cop another Oscar until 1985, when Prince was honored for the score of Purple Rain...