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...always based on that. There's an irreverence for material, but a reverence for quick wits and thinking. There is the whole question of the sophisticated country boy. Abraham Lincoln was an example. This guy off of a farm somewhere delivered the Gettysburg Address. These archetypes exist in our way of looking at things. Jazz is about a process of putting things together. There's no right or wrong in it, it's just a way of doing things. It's been an inseparable part of America in the 20th century, but it will really achieve its greatest height...
...musicians I know accept the whole history of music. Marcus Roberts, who I named before, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, these are artists who deal with all of the music. They're not being addressed properly, but they're here. The archaic thought that abstraction is the only way to be modern, I don't know who still believes in that. Also, the idea that one period of something defines it instead of the whole of that thing is also archaic. America prizes change and being reborn, but our country has a history and documents that govern...
Unfortunately, on the 15 tracks of his new album Sound Loaded, Martin achieves little in the way of validating himself as anything beyond vocal accompaniment for snazzy Latin dance rhythms. Countless tracks of smooth-wannabe-Backstreet Boys/'NSync fall short of any distinctive melody or rhythm that marks classics of the same genre. Perhaps it's a case of too many people wanting in on a piece of the Martin action: a quick glance at the credits shows each song to have been engineered by around 10 people, which may have contributed to the generic quality of the songs...
Standing in the way of a trip to California is No. 13 Navy (21-10, 7-1), whom the Crimson will battle in a do-or-die opening game. The Midshipmen are the champions of the Southern Division, while Harvard is the lowest-seeded Northern Division entry in the tournament...
Unfortunately for them, they didn't exactly beat anyone to the idea. The past two years have brought an explosion of acts that came real and kept it that way. The Roots, Mos Def and Talib Kweli, Common and Jurassic 5 have all blown up lately, not to mention fellow L.A. wildmen the Black Eyed Peas...