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...Harris’ musical experiments aren??t always unqualified successes, he can be forgiven for his overextension; the pressure to innovate surely weighs heavily on his shoulders. No era of jazz ever includes more than a few great vibraphonists, and now, with musicians like Steve Nelson doing their best playing as sidemen, and with greats like Bobby Hutcherson decades past their most important work, Harris has taken up the mantle of jazz’s highest-profile practitioner of the instrument and all of the expectation that comes with...
...music from relative obscurity is certainly an admirable goal—none of the pieces recorded here rank among Ellington’s best-known works, and they certainly deserve wider exposure. But good intentions don’t always make the best music. The philosophizing, orchestrating, and conducting aren??t enough to sink this album, but they’re plenty reason to make a listener wish that Stefon Harris would stick to what he does best: playing the vibes...
...comes from Cohen’s new emphasis on crude slapstick humor. That’s not to say that the “Jackass”-style antics in the film (nude male wrestling, a live bear in an ice cream truck, the attempted abduction of Pamela Anderson) aren??t funny, just that it doesn’t take a comedic mind of Cohen’s caliber to decide that a fat naked man writhing around a bed might be funny...
...Well, let’s just say if you aren??t getting there early with the intention of leaving late, then you’re missing the point...
...show them the ridiculousness of their action? Easy: don’t go to their so-called party. That’s not much of a problem for most of us, who either aren??t 21 or aren??t alumni, but if you’re either, stay away. And if you know somebody who is, tell them they must, under all circumstances, boycott this event. For the good of the most sacred of sacred events, nobody bother with this asinine attempt to steal fans away from what we’re all really there...