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...series is, of course, more than just a clash of titans. Barkley, for example, is attended by his equally spherical protege, Oliver Miller, an eager rookie who might have been deemed too fat for the league before Barkley redefined the limits of flesh; Jordan's constant partner is the silken Scottie Pippen, who might have been regarded as one of the kings of the game were he not in the company of royalty. The Suns' coach, Paul Westphal, is a serious, articulate Christian, a poster boy for Sun Belt conservatism; his opposite number on the Bulls, Phil Jackson...
...album janet. comes on strong from its first full song, That's the Way Love Goes, a silken seduction ballad that purrs and pounces. When the singer wants to talk back at a lover who's been "runnin' 'round with those nasty hoes," she has to cut her way through a lush sonic rain forest. As if she were afraid of getting lost in the jungle depths, Jackson enlisted the aid of opera soprano Kathleen Battle, whose soaring obbligato she chases through the song like a kid following a bread-crumb trail out of a fairy-tale forest...
...album kicks off with a track that never made it to Bedtime Stories, Baerwald's fine solo debut: A Secret Silken World, a chronicle of a Saturday- night pickup. Then it ricochets into The Got No Shotgun HydraHead Octopus Blues, which takes up -- with pulsing drums and crunching guitar -- the matter of reciprocal footsie between government and drug dealers. The record is not an editorial, however. Baerwald is not interested in pointing fingers; he wants to nail a mood of corruptive malaise and the autoeroticism of power. One of the record's spookiest and loveliest songs, The Postman, takes...
...Bohemians. The newest album from THE SUNDAYS, Blind, shows an unexpected durability of that format as well as a band that succeeds by smartly playing from its strengths. Sundays lead singer Harriet Wheeler deserves much of the credit. Front and center is her floating, shimmering alto, unfurling like a silken ribbon and ringing like brass. Her lyrics are ordinary but agilely delivered. David Gavurin's well-balanced compositions and sweet, guitar-led arrangements provide Wheeler with an intricately detailed yet unobtrusive backdrop. Sometimes pop works best when it keeps its own limits in mind...
...come down a little bit," Billie Holiday says during a rehearsal interlude on this landmark set. "It's not legit. I do not got a legitimate voice." True enough. But Billie Holiday changed every notion of legit -- twisted it right around into such a newfangled shape that her silken, serpentine style became the touchstone for all jazz singing. She was, by herself, the new tradition. Others followed, and some were great. But no one has ever touched...