Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quist speaks with a thick, richly layered voice--a voice resonant with the melodic rhythm of Jamaica, the bass note of Ghana, the clipped, soproper pronunciation of the BBC, and clangy Americanisms picked up during four years of college. He can be loud when he want. At the Union dining hall, friends used to ask him to get the attention of someone at the far end of the hall, which he would do with a shout. He is of medium height, muscled so that people ask what sport he plays, thinking maybe soccer, maybe track, maybe boxing. He wears shorts...
...times evokes a schmaltzy hotel lounge act. Elsewhere, Santana-like Latin percussion and '60s soul grooves join a pastiche of electronically altered vocals and jabbering wah-wah guitars. Songs like Finger Lickin' Good mix live instruments with electronically sampled sounds and fluid tempos -- "switching the rhythm," as the Beasties say, "like another piece of chewing...
...great rival Goodman, the clarinet did not make this transition -- at least not without sacrificing its warmth and lyricism -- which is why it soon was eclipsed by the saxophone as a primary jazz voice. But here Shaw effortlessly absorbs some of bop's angular chromaticism, and his out-of-rhythm codas, all fluttery murmurings or boiling surges of notes, seem to anticipate the free-form jazz of the '60s and '70s. These last recordings, like so much in his career, raise the essential Shaw perplexity: the richness of what was, the wistfulness of what might have been...
...walking. I think better with my legs moving, and it is good to get away from Harvard Square. I like the quiet rhythm of covering ground on foot. Over the past four years I have developed a formula. A small problem may take me to the Charles. A medium problem and I will make it to Porter Square. With a real predicament I may end up out in East Boston and have to take the subway back...
...music is marketed. Executives who program for traditional rock stations fret that the white teens who make up their audiences won't identify with black rockers. Black programmers argue that their listeners are turned off by the heavy-metal sound. Says Mike Stradford, programming director at KKBT-FM, a rhythm-and- blues station in Los Angeles: "We make money by playing the music that our listeners want to hear...