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Come Away with Me is mostly an album of warm, languid pop songs. There are touches of jazz--a stand-up bass here, an offbeat drum there--but Jones' voice doesn't have the rogue spirit required for improvisation or the range for sudden emotional bursts. Her singing is beautiful, but her pacing and delivery owe a greater debt to pop artists like James Taylor and Carole King than to Billie Holiday or Nina Simone. Of course, that could change. Jones is so new to her career that her recent influences leave fresh imprints. "I'm into country...
Justin A. McCarty, Class of 1996, left Harvard College after three months to attend the New England Conservatory to study double-bass, but has since graduated and now works alongside the elder McCarty as a TF in the chemistry department...
...signature solo pieces featured in the first half, included his rendition of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” where he alternated the notes of Paul McCartney’s bass every other note with John Lennon’s guitar with literally pitch-perfect accuracy...
...mammoth musical mind. Fingering the microphone as if it were a stringed instrument, he made as much an homage to Davis’ improvisational ability as much as he did the legendary trumpeter’s trademark sound. Using sparse figures and sliding ethereal textures juxtaposed with pulsing bass growls, he seemed to push the other members of this impromptu sextet to a higher plane...
...Bobby McFerrin” was his connection with the audience. Before the night’s final performance with the Brothers and Sisters, McFerrindescended into the audience and engaged in a series of intimate one-on-one performances with random spectators. Face to face, McFerrin would lay down a bass-line or other melodic theme, allow his unrehearsed partner to improvise, and then switch roles. In one action, McFerrin made the music accessible and approachable to all, and that is perhaps his greatest talent...