Wayne Shorter: 'Happening,' and Meandering, a Burst at a Time
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The jazz great talks about composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, and about "Footprints," a new two-disc retrospective of Mr. Shorter's music.
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The setâs most memorable parts were instrumental, when hybrid rhythms set off improvisations and dizzyingly fast unison passages on sitar and wooden flute.
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LOS ANGELES  - With all due respect to "I'm Not There," Todd Haynes' imaginative and often dazzling meditation on the pop-culture mythology of Bob Dylan, there ain't nothing like the real thing.
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Heâs not only the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for megaband Fall Out Boy. Patrick Stump is also one of the most prolific composers in pop music. And he composes that music all over the world using his MacBook Pro and GarageBand.  âThe beauty of GarageBand is that itâs only limited by what you want to do with it,â he says. âUltimately, you can do anything. Itâs a sequencer and you can record and edit audio. And it runs on my laptop. Iâve composed and recorded on the plane, on the bullet train in Japan. Itâs made me so much more prolific because I donât have to think about where and when I can record or write music. I can do it anywhere.â
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Like a fading singer, Colin Montgomerie has spent the latter years of his career experiencing long lulls and an occasional high.
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Two weeks ago, a topnotch producer, who has just delivered a hit, narrated an interesting anecdote to me. I deem it fit to begin 'Business Talk' by sharing the amusing tale with you
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Mamoru Oshii's hallucinatory meditation on life unfolds in a swirl of film-noir intrigue, philosophical speculation, eye-popping images and serious science-fiction cool.
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"Music Within"  introduces audiences to a supremely cool and witty real-life  character, Richard Pimentel (well played by Ron Livingston),  who then escorts them through his life as a disabled Vietnam  veteran, motivational speaker, author and passionate activist  for the disabled community. What should be a tough, sentimental  slog whisks by in a breezy, entertaining 94 minutes like a kind  of illustrated stand-up comedy routine.
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A producer got more than he bargained for when he hit it big.
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This was no tossed-together anthology but a conceptually focused, musically incisive celebration of Bernsteinâs passionate identification with New York City and with George Gershwin.
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The transformation of my musical life happened slowly. I used to bring an envelope of CDs to work and play them through my computer&#39;s CD-ROM drive.
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Short stories these days are often less formulaic than they used to be, as a new anthology demonstrates.
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Interesting music does not tell us to be good or bad. It asks only to be admired. Getting great music and simple faith together happens, but with difficulty.
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With bouzoukis and pipas in hand, indie rock goes global. Buzz ensues.
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The world will have to wait awhile for P. Diddy's magnum opus--the   rapper apparently has little time to sit down and write these days, even   though that didn't stop him from taking a hefty advance for his   memoirs.
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The jazz musician Chet Baker, who wanders through the documentary âLetâs Get Lostâ with the eerie deliberateness of a somnambulist, appears to be a man who knows a thing or two about dreams.
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James Brown's second attempt at an autobiography is uneven but occasionally jaw-dropping.