Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the Harvard Jazz Band's 25th anniversary celebration last weekend, band alumni as well as jazz luminaries converged on campus in an atmosphere that combined camaraderie with wistful remembrance...
Singapore: Raffles Hotel, early 1942. The colonial swells are having a party--black ties, a ricky-ticky dance band lulling them with torpid tunes. As they swill their bubbly, they mutter contempt for the advancing Japanese army in smug racist terms...
...seemed a long shot--a greatest-hits album from a bluegrass band that had never had a hit--but Now That I've Found You by Alison Krauss and Union Station was the from-nowhere find of 1995. A beguiling sample of R. and B., pop and blue-eyed gospel tethered to Krauss' soaring soprano, the CD sold well, won some Grammys and established its lead singer as proof there was still purity and clarity in country music...
Four numbers spotlight other band members in hard-line bluegrass, while the star saws away eloquently on her violin. But there's plenty for fans of Krauss's vocal virtuosity. Mark Simos' Find My Way Back to My Heart (whose melody echoes Paul McCartney's I've Just Seen a Face) is a lesson in hard-earned self-reliance; Happiness (lyric by Michael McDonald) has the ethereal Eire sound of Enya. The anthemic finale, There Is a Reason, begins in a string-quartet drone and escalates to a wilderness cry for salvation. These are songs in the past tense--love...
...preconcert publicity had neglected to mention that a free message accompanied the free music: the message of the Christian gospel. The band proceeded to play a set of Beatles-era rock songs with the lyrics modified to reflect the evangelical mission. "Love me do" became "Love me Jesus...