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Charlie Haden plays bass with his eyes closed. He has his own story about that, and it's pretty good...
...stratosphere with his alto sax. They are opening at the Five Spot, the Manhattan mecca for cutting-edge jazz. It is one of those debut dates that are more like a trial by fire: chops will be checked out, irrevocable judgments passed. Slipping the cover off his bass, Haden, who is 22, looks up at the bar and sees Charles Mingus. Percy Heath. Ray Brown. And more: "Every great bass player, staring right in my face. From that moment on, I closed my eyes...
Fresh from a long-overdue facelift, the Harvard University Band's bass drum will make its second debut today at the Harvard-Cornell game...
...Drive," the first song, immediately signals this change in R.E.M.'s emphasis. The metallic guitar-picking of Chronic Town has been replaced with an intimate layered sound-Peter Buck's Brooding acoustic strumming, Mike Mills' subdued bass and ex-Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones' rich string arrangement. Singer Michael Stipe, meanwhile, provides a compelling vocal that aches for carefree younger years. This is definitely an older Stipe speaking. In Murmur's "Catapult" from 1983, he ponders childhood ("We were little boys/We were little girls... Did we miss anything?"). Now, ten years later, it's early adulthood he recalls...
...Star Me Kitten" and "New Orleans Instrumental No. I" are somewhat less successful experiments. "Star" is a slow, soft jazzy piece--with a few guitar and bass notes and occasional cymbals--that drags along with a breathy Stipe vocal ("I am your possession/ So fuck me kitten"). In the back ground is a hovering "ah" that endures throughout the three minutes and 16 seconds. Lazy "New Orleans" is a twominute ditty with reverberating guitars and sorrowful strings...