Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...development in Europe. However, they immediately discovered that it was not as easy to market electronic music as they might have liked. A trip to the nearby record store will reveal that there are nearly more electronica subgenres than artists: ambient, illbient, jungle, acid house, drum 'n bass, acid jazz, trip hop and so on ad nauseam...
More than 400 luminaries enjoyed jazz and wine, entertainment and enlightenment last night at a Fogg Art Museum event organized by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund honoring President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...house. But the programming comes dirt cheap. Profit margins currently run in the 50% range, in contrast to about 35% for many cable companies. The network already reaches 98% of all black cable homes, so future growth will have to come from new ventures. For example, the BET on Jazz cable channel, which features live performances, has more than 2 million domestic and 300,000 foreign subscribers...
Cuba-based artists, who are considered ambassadors of Castro's revolution, are frequent targets of exile wrath. When jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba performed in downtown Miami in April 1996, a crowd of 200 demonstrators spat on concertgoers as they tried to enter the theater. Three months later, a few days before singer Rosita Fornes, 74, was scheduled to perform at a popular night spot, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez...
...title track of the collection is probably the most interesting stylistically. With its jazz sensibility and horn accompaniment, "South Saturn Delta" marks one of the most intriguing musical avenues Hendrix was pursuing before his death. One can only imagine what would have resulted had plans to collaborate with such jazz greats as trumpeter Miles Davis actually come to fruition. While the song represents an embryonic conception, the fusion of "South Saturn Delta" hints at what would undoubtedly have been a very exciting phase of Hendrix's career...