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When he's focused, Wyclef is easily hip-hop's best songwriter; on this new CD, he's focused about 40% of the time. On songs such as PJ's and Two Wrongs, he fuses reggae, folk and R. and B. into a sound all his own. The songs have hooks, but they lie back, content to let the lyrics and complex composition shine. The rest of the time he jumps between faux radio skits and crass, attention-seeking covers. Wyclef thinks anything he touches is interesting, but some things, like his hideous update of December, 1963 (Oh What...
...songs by George and Ira). He danced for 10 years on Broadway with his sister Adele, and in 10 Hollywood movies with Ginger Rogers. But in his signature tune from the show and film "The Band Wagon" he sang, "I'll go by way by myself" (available on the CD "Fred Astaire at M-G-M"). His achievement was solitary and unique - extensive and varied enough for the most esteemed practitioners of high, middle and low art to declare him the best...
...know of no film documentation of Adele's work. She didn't make movies, and in 1932 she retired when she married Charles Cavendish, an English lord. She can be heard, though, on the CD "A Portrait of Fred Astaire," an invaluable compilation of his recordings from 1926 to 1938. In these duets with Fred, from their hit shows, Adele has a tweety soprano with no special warmth or color; maybe, those who saw her on Broadway might have said, you had to be there. What's beguiling about these early sides is Fred's attempt to find a style...
These are gloomy times for the recording industry. There hasn't been a new packaging technology since the introduction of the CD two decades ago, which killed the LP, which had killed the 78, which had killed the player piano. And for a music company, there is nothing sadder than not being able to sell its customers a brand-new library full of music they already...
...Barreling down a narrow street in Beijing in a silver 2002 Toyota Landcruiser, Jiang has his CD player blaring The Red Detachment of Women, a cacophonous propaganda ballet from the 1960s. With his assistant at the wheel, Jiang turns around to explain gleefully his fondness for the revolutionary score. Born in 1963 in China's central Hebei province, Jiang was the son of a senior captain in the People's Liberation Army. The family moved house a lot. Jiang affectionately recalls the rustic province of Guizhou where cured hams hung inside neighbors' homes and unattended warehouses of machine parts became...