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Their current hit, "Taillights Fade," got the crowd pensive. Janovitz's guitars, Chris Colbourn's bass and Tom Maginnis's drums slowly rework the same few chords while Janovitz pleads to his ex-girlfriend that he'll get over her rejection. It's the same old story, but his raspy voice sounds triumphant in lines like "I've hit the wall, I'm about to fall...Watch my taillights fade to black." "Porchlight," also from their current album "Let Me Come Over," isn't any happier. With a folky bounce, Janovitz tells the story of--surprise--an unhappy relationship...
...headed a quadruple bill at the Avalon, following Boston blues rockers Morphine. Looking and sounding like something out of a David Lynch movie, Morphine left the crowd a little stunned. With pumping bass and soulful sax, the band, which came close to winning the WBCN Rumble last year, won some converts in the plaid and fratboy crowd...
...past three decades, Haden has been one of the most restless, gifted, intrepid players in all of jazz. You can figure that from the stats: he has played, by his own count, on more than 400 albums, and last August scored as Down Beat magazine's best acoustic bass player. Or you can hear it for yourself: Haunted Heart, a new album with his Quartet West, shows Haden, now 55, at his lyrical peak. It is a kind of musical-dream autobiography, part funky and part rhapsodic, that evokes the style of his early Los Angeles days as well...
...took up bass because "it made the fullness of music happen." He'd play along with Charlie Parker records, and came to love the instrument so much "that when the bass stopped playing, the bottom fell out of the music." He sold shoes and played country bass to get a stake that would send him to Los Angeles to study jazz at a conservatory. He dropped out after a single - semester. By then he was jamming with Art Pepper and Dexter Gordon. When he met up with Coleman at a club in Hollywood, he was primed for takeoff. "The traditional...
...about the past, because improvisation is really about being in the moment," he explains. "I'm talking about the past inspiring the present. That's what's so special about jazz. It teaches you to appreciate the moment you're in now." And with Haden's bass playing under it, every moment is a wonder...