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...cool. The music has successfully harnessed the sagacity of an older generation of performers with the rawness of a newer one. Says 61-year-old trumpeter Donald Byrd: "All of the jazz cats, everybody I talk to now, they want to get involved in this." Three new CDs -- Blowout Comb, Digable Planets' daringly laid-back sophomore album; Home, by the rap group Spearhead; and Red Hot and Cool: Stolen Moments, an aids-benefit CD featuring collaborations by various jazz and rap performers -- should further establish jazz-rap as pop's most dynamic new genre...
That is all changing. The swift success of both Campion's protofeminist film and Nyman's lush, haunting score (more than 1.5 million CDs sold to date) has meant far fewer puffy noses and sour faces. Previously, Nyman was best known for the music he wrote for the idiosyncratic director Peter Greenaway (The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) and for his own superb 1987 opera, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, based on Oliver Sacks' best-selling book about neurological disorders. On a recent tour of North America with his 10- piece chamber orchestra...
...warning investors to bail out of the stock market just before the October Crash. While she never flatly prophesied the collapse, she did tell a television interviewer one week before Black Monday that she was no longer buying stocks or bonds and had put all her money in CDs. That was enough to secure Garzarelli a reputation for having all but predicted the 508-point market drop. Her stature increased in 1990 when she urged clients to buy stocks shortly before the new bull market started...
Third, college student collectively spend a significant amount of money on discretionary items even while they're still undergraduates. Many are well-endowed by mom and dad. And all those CDs, nights on the town, clothing add up to huge potential profits for the companies...
Powell's sad life and wondrous music were in large part the inspiration for filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier's fond 1986 jazz eulogy, 'Round Midnight, but what is so imposing about the music on these CDs -- immediately, insistently impressive -- is not the sorrow but the vigor. Powell's may have been a troubled spirit, compromised and violated, but it was never stilled...