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...disco, funk, and other repetitive mood music, but when musicians of Hancock's caliber choose this route it forces some serious questions. Hancock is a terrific jazz musician who rose through the tradition and then (many would say) abandoned it to form the Headhunters, a prototypical jazz-funk fusion group. The Headhunters brought Hancock mass appeal of a kind never before experienced by a jazz-associated musician, but he also took the brunt of a great backlash of criticism from the jazz community which was directed against musicians who deserted the more serious music that they had played so well...
Then Hancock joined fellow crossover artist Chick Corea for a series of duet piano concerts, which reconfirmed both players as skilled and important improvisationsts. Both the Quintet and the piano tour served to generate among fusion fans an interest in mainstream jazz, and both were commercially successful. But both projects seem to have been dropped, and Herbie Hancock is back on the road with his funk band...
...first glimpse of the Canyon came in the very early morn, from the back of yet another pick up--an awe inspiring huge gap in the earth, a fuzzy, hazy red purple brown green fusion of colors and shapes and forms and rock layers. And just up the road was the South Rim Village, where hotels and shops and restaurants and cards and fat Iowa tourists in Winnebago motor homes greeted my eyes...
...Nuclear fusion, which could exploit an unlimited fuel supply and promises little contamination of the environment, cannot fill the gap either. Researchers at Princeton and other labs have made some progress on fusion, in which atomic nuclei are combined rather than split. But physicists think it will take decades of problem solving before they can even attempt to build commercial reactors...
...scientists thought they were putting superheat on the Carter Administration for more fusion funding, they were probably mistaken. John Deutch, the Department of Energy's research chief, pointedly noted that while the Princeton work was gratifying, it was not a "breakthrough." Thus the Administration remains tilted more toward conservation and coal, less toward advanced research, however exciting...