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...active '68er. But he too absorbed the values of the protesters and their hunger for social justice. His ready grin and populist touch were for many young Germans a welcome relief from Helmut Kohl, his predecessor as Chancellor, whose fondness for woollen sweaters and oompah brass bands reminded many of a past their parents and grandparents preferred not to discuss. Schröder's ease in front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls prior to last month's election. There's a sense in Berlin that...
Released for the first timesince the original tapes from 1965 were discovered in a closet, these two CDs capture the definitive Coltrane band--McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones--at the height of its powers. The highlights include Coltrane's signature standard My Favorite Things and the 27-min. title track, which features Coltrane at his most febrile, burning through registers in a controlled fury. To listen to these sessions is to experience some of the shock and awe that Coltrane induced in audiences at the time. After witnessing one of Coltrane's gigs at the Half Note...
...1990s, the Stockton, Calif., band Pavement earned a devoted following for its brand of fuzzy, slacker rock. Among the group's admirers are these four young jazz luminaries, who join forces to cover eight Pavement songs. It's an unlikely enterprise, and not every arrangement works--the catchy hit Cut Your Hair is reinterpreted as a schmaltzy R&B ballad--but it's hard to resist music this fun. On songs like Here and Summer Babe, the rhythm section lays down pulsating grooves as saxman Carter uncovers the bluesy tunefulness buried beneath Pavement's trademark static. The result...
...edginess of “This Time Around” is amplified on “Underneath” both literally and metaphorically, taking the band to the next level of hard. Some singles, like “Penny and Me” and “Lost Without Each Other” are simple and acoustic, while others take a more contemporary electronic sound...
Suffice it to say, I understand how hard it is to be a well-dressed Harvard female. If a fat man was constantly telling me that I was bad at math and science, then I too would have no choice but to sport a Hillary Clinton-style head band to class in a last ditch effort to be taken seriously...