Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hands, and, to get a better grip of me, he put his arm around me and pressed me against him, and the sweetness of the touch of our naked bodies one against the other was superb. It satisfied in some measure the vague, indecipherable yearning of my soul...
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 jazz cats, everybody I talk to now, they want to get involved in this." Three new CDs -- Blowout Comb, Digable Planets' daringly laid-back sophomore album; Home, by the rap group Spearhead; and Red Hot and Cool: Stolen Moments, an aids-benefit CD featuring collaborations by various jazz...
...mostly successful CD Home, Spearhead too takes on a variety of social concerns, from poverty to black nationalism. The songs draw on hip-hop, jazz and soul. One song, Positive, is about getting tested for the aids virus; another, Caught Without an Umbrella, describes the allure of suicide. A few of the tunes on Home are pedestrian, but all are jaywalkers -- flouting the rules and going where they please...
...maverick traditions his music sprang from but proudly, defiantly new. His singing tapped and trapped that mysterious, wondrous thing at the heart of American popular music. Sam Phillips, who recorded all Elvis' early sides for his seminal Sun Records, called that elusive core the place "where the soul of man never dies." Presley would never have put it in such high-flown terms. When That's All Right, Mama became a hit, he simply let himself be borne heavenward in the great celebrity updraft. hurry home, he wired his high school sweetheart, Dixie Locke, who was on a family vacation...
...plane to New York, it swiftly became obvious that this was not the rowdy Zhirinovsky of past foreign forays. The Liberal Democratic Party leader who has gadded about with ex-Nazi storm troopers and nubile nightclub strippers was the soul of propriety. As he stood waiting to disembark, surrounded by the latest members of his ever-shifting constellation of advisers, bodyguards and hangers-on, his pale blue eyes betrayed the hollow disorientation of an actor between scripts who suddenly finds himself at a loss for words...