Word: squaredom
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...while. He survives as the last word in a hipster style all the more fascinating for its plain links to squaredom. The minute that grunge thing came along, circa 1990, you knew it was only a matter of time before Sinatra and the Rat Pack came back into fashion. Uncombed hair and flannel shirts cried out for a counterattack of sharp dressing and flip courtliness with women. Thus "lounge music," cool and dressy, then swing music, hot and dressy, plus a bar scene where lounge lizards aren't dinosaurs anymore. Then the film Swingers, about two guys making their...
...learned "control." When he lost Pianist Timmons, he replaced him with his present pianist, Barry Harris, who influenced him to switch from neobop to an accent on ballads. After that, it was only a question of time before Cannonball's following reached to the very fringe of squaredom. "If this is the road Cannonball is going to travel," sniffed a Down Beat review of one of his albums not long ago, "he will only succeed in making money...
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