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...Blind Blake, however, provides a much more substantial link to the direction the guitar would take. Blake played in the more sophisticated ragtime style, laying down syncopated bass lines with his thumb while picking out complex melodic patterns with his fingers, and anyone interested in the fingerpicking styles of Ry Cooder (who recorded Blake's "Diddie Wa Diddie") and Jorma Kaukonen can hear where it all started on these tracks. The Blake collection also benefits from better fidelity, perhaps a function of the guitarist's forceful playing style, which projects with considerably greater impact than Jefferson's. But both anthologies...
...wants to hear more of a free approach, especially in the sections where inegal playing is necessary to the style of the variation. However, Perahia has obviously studied the score with great attention to detail, as his treatment of inner voices and his sense of direction in the fundamental bass clearly show. If you don't want to go with the extremes of a dionysian Gould (1955) or a puritan Rosalyn Tureck (1999), this is the recording to get. A- -Anthony Cheung
This month, in the holiday-gifts section of the Stein Mart in Charleston, S.C., a musical fish could be heard singing Christmas carols across the aisle from a miniature fountain retailing at $24.97. Both gadgets promise to be top sellers this season. But unlike the $19.97 Big Mouth Billy Bass, the desktop waterfall may outlive its novelty status, drawing on ancient themes to soothe a stressed...
...embracing that philosophy wholeheartedly. In addition to its Texas-shape fountain, complete with oil well, the company has trademarked a line of whimsical frog fountains, and is developing one with giggling piglets. "It gets more absurd as we go along," admits president Suzanne Harper. Coming soon: a gargling Billy Bass...
...into their tracks-MCs such as TC Izlam and Steele, however talented, simply fail to impress with the same regularity as many of their British counterparts. And, as with any cutting-edge Manhattan release, a certain degree of pretension is to be expected. Tracks like Drum FM's "Bach & Bass," an uninspired rehash of strings over appropriately hyperactive beats, come off as warmed-over stabs at originality. A mixed bag? Certainly. But as long as they subscribe to the philosophy of filling dance floors, Jungle Sky's DJs and MCs offer junglists more than enough to think about...