Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...agenda for the upcoming weekend mainly involves "working and eating a lot." But not everyone who stays at Harvard goes through Thanksgiving in the doldrums, he said. Last year, Huang said that he visited two of the first-years in his prefect group expecting to find them in a funk...
...directed by Ellen Weissbrod, currently in theatrical release (Warner Bros.); a book, which expands with razzle-dazzle graphics the biographical contents of the film; and a CD (Qwest/Reprise), packaged with the book, which represents the first-ever compilation of Jones' polymorphous music, ranging from jazz to soul, pop to funk, performed by talents as various as Sarah Vaughan and James Ingram. The movie, the book and the CD, all produced and coordinated by Courtney Sale Ross, offer no definitive portrait. But they do provide a vivid personality sketch in bold -- and, in the film, often demanding and dazzling -- strokes...
...restaurant on the edge of the French Quarter. He never heard any of the older musicians playing at Preservation Hall -- neither, in fact, did his father have any real contact with that world. The closest Wynton came to performing jazz in those years was working with Branford in a funk band called the Creators. Wynton used most of his pay -- $75 a gig -- to buy the small piccolo trumpets he needed to play baroque music...
...level on his horn and improving every day." Bass player Milt Hinton, 80, says Marsalis "stacks up miles ahead of" such past greats as Armstrong and Henry ("Red") Allen in mastery of the instrument. "But he doesn't yet have as much creativity blues-wise and dirt- and funk-wise as they had because he hasn't had to live it." Marsalis' main limitation -- one he shares with the entire youth brigade -- is the lack so far of a truly original creative voice. Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 73, puts it succinctly: "You don't see no Charlie Parkers coming along...
...OKAY? (Chrysalis). In the two years since his group's groundbreaking album What Up, Dog?, Don Was has become a hotshot producer. But he still knows how to find a groove. The latest offering borrows its funk from James Brown, its harmonies from the Temptations, a heaping of wit from Zappa, and makes it all cook...