Word: jamming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...resonant chord in the life of senior editor Thomas Sancton, who reported and wrote this week's cover story on trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis. A native of New Orleans, Sancton studied the clarinet with some of the city's veteran musicians and began sitting in on French Quarter jam sessions as a teenager. Since moving to the Big Apple, he has continued to play occasional gigs at local night spots and in the studio. Last month G.H.B. Records released Tom's seventh album, New Orleans Reunion, a collection of traditional blues and standards that he recorded with a clarinet-drum...
America's "What--me worry?" energy policy led directly to the current jam in the Persian Gulf. As long as we maintain our gluttonous consumption of energy, we can never wean ourselves from dependence on Gulf oil or reduce our vulnerability to capricious despots like Saddam Hussein. The time has come to fix the roof--before the big storm hits...
...musical genres is "Innernational" --a dance tune with a synthesizer-driven baseline that exposes most current dance songs for the amateur efforts that they are. The song--which Herlihy described in concert as "a political song that's not about parties" --engages Barbato in an all-out trumpet-synth jam which is nothing less than uplifting. "It isnt just `Do me baby, take off your clothes'," Herlihy says, comparing his song, which includes the line "No Das Kapital," to current dance hits. "I don't want to do a dance song like that...
Similarly, WHHY-FM in Montgomery, Ala., caused a traffic jam Tuesday afternoon when it held an "Insane Hussein" party...
...debut album by Wilson Phillips, a group formed by two daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson and one daughter of Mamas and the Papas singers John and Michelle Phillips, has zoomed to No. 2 on this week's Billboard chart. Another platinum seller is Technotronic's Pump Up the Jam. The label's fast dance to the top is especially impressive for a company that has started from scratch by nurturing new artists...