Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eclectic lineup at this week's Newport Jazz Festival is emphatic proof of the new unity among jazz, rock, the blues, soul, even the pop song. A single event at the Roseland Ballroom, for example, will offer both the sophisticated big-band arrangements of Harry James and the Latin style of Tito Puente. At Carnegie Hall, Pianist Keith Jarrett will spin forth some of the most elegant, technically proficient, classically tinted jazz since Art Tatum. On another night, Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton and Pianist Teddy Wilson will mix it up with Drummer Buddy Rich and Bassist Milt Hinton in what...
Uptown in the Park is presenting a most amazing festival of soul this Sunday over at White Stadium in Boston's Franklin Park. Sly and the Family Stone are headlining these proceedings, but that's just the beginning. Along with Sly you get a dose of a solid Tower of Power, a taste of the superb jazz of Donald Byrd, a handful of easy rhythms from the Hues Corporation ("Don't Rock the Boat"), and some of Richard Pryor's street-wise comedy. Boston hasn't done anything to deserve such a treat, but don't look this gift horse...
Jerry Butler, the Iceman, is appearing over in Boston at Paul's Mall. Butler has produced some nice, smooth R&B singles, notably "Only the Strong Survive," but lately he has been veering dangerously in the direction of middleaged pop music as well. He'll probably stick with slick soul material at Paul's Mall, though. July 2 through...
...swimsuits, as in wit, Shakespeare's law still rules: brevity is the soul...
...view that death entered the world as "the wages of sin" -the punishment for Adam's fall.* Ever since, Ramsey insists, death has been "the enemy." Jesus' death on the cross redeemed man for immortality, but did nothing to prevent death from being a shattering separation of soul and body. Christians, argues Ramsey, thus properly dread death, and in their care for the sick wisely laid the foundations of Western medicine. Nowadays, Ramsey says, "true humanism" still depends on a "dread of death." Romantically investing death with a bogus dignity, he suggests, may in fact hinder care...