Word: afros
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...group is fluent in the many rhythms and styles that they incorporate. While “Foforo Fo Firi” is reminiscent of the best Afro-Cuban tunes, “Brother Running/Brother Gettin’ Caught” speaks the language of the post-Marsalis jazz combo. “New Second Line” captures the joy of Mardi Gras, with all the swagger and raucousness of a Fat Tuesday parade. The sweet simple statement of Tom Jobim’s bossa “Corcovado” is a welcome cool-down midway through an otherwise...
...growing number of fans consider Los Hombres Calientes to be the hottest Latin jazz band touring today. However, in recent months, co-leaders Irvin Mayfield and Bill Summers have expanded the group’s horizons greatly, hoping to encompass the many Afro and Latin rhythms of North and South America. The band’s recent performance at RegattaBar was a live document of their progress...
...group’s opening number set the standard for the performance. After a brief, intense rendition of the opening statement from Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman,” the band segued into an Afro-Latin interpretation of John Coltrane’s “Impressions.” Mayfield started the fireworks with his solo, tensely running off dizzying patterns, his trumpet nearly swallowing the microphone...
...April 3 lecture, the fifth in the Radcliffe’s Inaugural series, was entitled, “‘Goodbye to All That’”: Race, Surrogacy and Farewell,” and drew a constellation of academic superstars from Harvard’s Afro-American Studies and English departments to the audience. University President and English Professor Neil L. Rudenstine procured a seat in the front row to listen to Morrison weave her spell...
Beloved is dedicated to the 60 million people who died as a result of slavery. But Afro-American art does not stand alone in its inherent politicization, Morrison said: the two are inextricable, as race is a part of life, and one of the aims of her writing is to disable the art vs. politics argument...