Wayne Shorter

By Eugene Holley, Jr.

Tenor saxophonist/composer/ Wayne Shorter who turns seventy-five August 25, did not invent an instrumental style. He did not create a musical genre. He did something more: He illuminated and extended the musical frontier of the last four decades, the way that Leonardo Da Vinci illuminated and extended the arts and sciences of Western Civilization.

King James stars in China.

By Samori Benjamin

Sports Editor, TBWT

Sixteen years ago the thought of United States basketball losing an Olympic game was unthinkable and not bringing home the gold was unfathomable. 

             Four years before that in Seoul Korea at the 1988 Olympics, the national basketball program suffered an embarrassing bitter defeat at the hands of the Soviet Union. 

By Herb Boyd

Managing Editor, TBWT

During a recent preview of Fela, its director and choreographer Bill T. Jones was almost as restless and energetic as the cast as he moved from one spot to another in the small theater, seeking a better perspective and conferring with colleagues about the musical.