Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Curtis Mayfield helped shape rock and soul in the 1960s and '70s with such hits as Superfly. But in 1990 he was paralyzed in an accident. Now a lineup of musicians he influenced, including Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton, have made All Men are Brothers, an album of Mayfield hits. Royalties will go directly to Mayfield...
Sharon L. Kunde '96 says her first year left her painfully sensitized to B+. "I just remember in expos, when I got my B+. I had been crushed on my first paper, and I basically wrenched two pretty good papers out of my soul, or my guts, or something. And then for, like, my final grade conference, [my preceptor] delivered the blow...
...Sugargliders had added dance music and white-soul moves to their repertoire, putting backbeats and sound effects into their otherwise still-sedate songs; this form of the band recorded five singles for the English label Sarah, each with a different drummer (or a drum-machine). You can now get all five, from 1992's "letter from a lifeboat" up to the just-released "Top 40 Sculpture," on the Sugargliders' new singles compilation We're All Trying to Get There. The "Lifeboat" single was forgettable, but the entire rest of the repertoire, given undivided attention, will slowly become profound and moving...
...look like devastating wit. An estimated 40 million Americans have tried it at some point, from Ivy League law professors to country-and-western singers. Yet in some states, possession of a few grams can get you put away for years. What does it do to one's immortal soul to puff and wink and look away while about 100,000 other Americans remain locked up for doing the exact same thing? Marijuana prohibition establishes a minimum baseline level of cultural dishonesty that we can never rise above: the President "didn't inhale," heh heh. It's O.K. to drink...
...that young talented jazz guitarists record so much bad music? The answer is that they are simply perpetuating a great and longstanding tradition. Ever since Wes Montgomery, jazz guitar greats have recorded pop and soul tunes, often in search of crossover success. Inevitably the results are ugly, as with Grant Green, and sometimes they are disastrous, as with George Benson. The latest releases of two young guitar virtuosos catch this fate, Stanley Jordan's new Bolero, and Mark Whitfield's '93 self-titled release. Both musicians began their recording careers with very impressive debuts that drew strong commercial responses...