Asked who the most artistic players in the NBA is, he responded, "Lebron or Kobe".
Interviewing some of the key visual, sonic, and artistic players involved in its execution, THUMP has stitched together their accounts into an oral history of the "Dubfire:Live HYBRID" genesis.
Amongst them was chairman Ron Noades, who commented "when you're getting into mid-winter in England, you need a few hard white men to carry the artistic black players through".
But her searing dance, a collaboration with the New York City Players' artistic director Richard Maxwell, shines more brightly in my mind than most of the work I've seen since.
But here is the harsh truth about the Wizards' point guard: One of the most artistic and skilled players of his era is still too stubborn to realize he has just about thrown away what could have been a Hall of Fame career.
Other significant manifestations include the perfection-making practice of forces of nurture like Peter Shilton or Cristiano Ronaldo, Spain's obsessive-compulsive tiki-taka and Pep Guardiola's need for control, and the artistic leanings of players like Eric Cantona and Dimitar Berbatov.
But the record of artistic endeavors by players is more dubious, including clunkers like "Space Jam" — in which Michael Jordan is consistently out-acted by Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes friends — and Shaquille O'Neal's less-than-magical turn in "Kazaam," which regularly rates as one of the worst movies ever made.
On a 2001 CD of the same title, Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata's artistic director and theorbo player, used 10 instrumentalists.
The trumpet player Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center program, is one of the genre's best-known names and honors the music's roots in New Orleans dating back to Louis Armstrong.
