Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different; he found a gospel and lived by it, whatever the cost to his reputation or to the job that he so loved. When We Were Kings recalls a time, not so long ago, when an athlete could be a renegade hero, not of the self but of the soul...
Reading jazz pianist Keith Jarrett's comments in this week's New York Times Magazine gave me the willies. He was talking about jazz that lacked soul, but all I could think of was Harvard. On the face of it, Jarrett, a '70s jazz superstar turned classical recording artist, was giving it to Wynton Marsalis and the new crop of '80s jazz virtuosos. But Jarrett's scathing commentary on the contemporary jazz scene reads like advice to Harvard undergrads...
Jarrett trips up here by choosing to pick on Marsalis, a well-respected professional. Moreover, Marsalis' records are convincing in the way that Jarrett swears they are not. "Soul Gestures in a Southern Blue," for instance, is remarkable notably for the intensity of feeling it inspires...
Besides, if his Koln Concert is any evidence, Jarrett finds meaning and authenticity only in a surfeit of emotion and moodiness. The album, a recording of one of his improvisational concerts, is a real soul-twister, one part tear-jerker, one part elevator fodder, and one part art. Jarrett oozes presence on the album, as he grunts along with the music over and over and over again...
...distinctive head wrap, cuts a sleek, striking figure. Badu hopes that she can help change what she calls the "monotonous" nature of contemporary R. and B. "I want to be the midwife to a new sound," she says. Baduizm is a gentle but firm slap that may bring neo-soul to robust life...