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Working with jazzy back beats and the smooth abstract poetics of rapper Q-Tip, The Love Movement offers a few of the classic Tribe head bobbers, but the majority of the album tends to be devoted to relaxed raps about love. Busta Rhymes joins in on "Steppin' It Up," but the synergy of past ventures doesn't quite reappear, and the song, as do many aspects of the album, sounds halting and deliberate. Q-Tip waxes an eloquent soliloquy in "The Love" about love in all forms, but for every one of these slick arrangements, there is a lame...
Next the young fan played The Darkside, a track built around Donald Byrd's Steppin' into Tomorrow. It starts with a grim, pulsing bass, followed by hard lyrics about urban life: "Come take a trip through the eye of a black man/ Looking out at life like he really doesn't give a damn...
Della Reese--performs in a gala jazz extravaganza to benefit Dimock Community Health Center, Roxbury. Tickets are $100, $75 for WGBH members. For information call Steppin' Out at 442-5077. In the World Trade Center in Boston Saturday...
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