Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hundreds of songs; more than 500 and counting. Forty-three albums; more than 57 million copies sold. A series of dreams about America as it once and never was. It was folk music, deep within its core, from the mountains and the delta and the blacktop of Highway 61. Rhythm and blues, too, and juke-joint rock 'n' roll, and hymns from backwoods churches and gospel shouts from riverside baptisms. He put all that together, and found words to match...
Pops. Sweet Papa Dip. Satchmo. He had perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter. Like most of the great innovators in jazz, he was a small man. But the extent of his influence across jazz, across American music and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from...
Clement A. Leslie says his son has been amusician and performer who sought out rhythm inanything and everything from childhood...
...When he was about four], I noticed my son goto a Coke machine," he says. "He put his earagainst the box and he listened very intently, andthen he started to snap his fingers and bop hishead to the rhythm of the Coke...
Despite winning four of its first five games, Harvard struggled to find an offensive rhythm and had problems tallying goals. Three of its victories were 1-0 finals in which it failed to capitalize on numerous scoring chances. And following a disappointing 1-1 tie with cross-town rival Boston College, Harvard dropped its first Ivy contest of the year in heartbreaking fashion to Yale, falling 3-2 in overtime...