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...describes as “like The Band... in a soulful, laid back way”—to begin recording their third album. He got his break with the group when he opened for them at a Maryland show in summer 2004. “Their bassist kind of had a meltdown on stage, and I so filled in for them,” he explains. Soon Eskenazi was touring with the group in Japan, Germany, Great Britain, and even on the Craig Kilborn Show, as a permanent member. “In Japan and the UK they...
...asphalt, teeth clenched, he mumbles, “I’m stuck in a city but I belong in a field.” Cut to shots of wind-blown Albert Hammond Jr., alone, twiddling his Stratocaster miserably in front of a panoramic cityscape. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti and bassist Nikolai Fraiture are overwhelmed by a horde of winter-jacketed pedestrians who stumble into them and knock up their instruments. Occasionally, one member or the other will appear to be as large as a skyscraper, a concept that seems to have been borrowed from the video for the Rolling Stones?...
...This was before the whole alternative rock idea. No one was paying attention to us…It worked out, we could get cheap rehearsal space.” Years later, Krukowski and his wife Naomi Yang ’85, Galaxie 500’s former bassist, continue to make music under the simple moniker of Damon & Naomi. They play shows around the Boston area (including an upcoming gig at the MFA on March 12), often collaborating with other bands that they’ve met and worked with over the years. “We?...
...that end, guitarist Nicolas Bragg buffs up Destroyer’s sound with his axe heroics; drummer Scott Morgan keeps good time and occasionally funks things up with well-placed saxophone solos; bassist Tim Loewen gives each track the perfect amount of “bottom;” and keyboardist Tim Loewen plays off of Bejar’s lead guitar to craft each song’s melody...
...already closed the book on the instrument. It helped that Rosenwinkel came to prominence at the same time a group of young New York musicians was getting ready to redefine the jazz idiom. Rosenwinkel earned his stripes by gigging with other young lions such as pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Larry Grenadier, who would both go on to explore pop and rock compositions through jazz. Rosenwinkel hasn’t been as overtly subversive, but he has certainly expanded his genre’s outer limits. On each of his six albums as a leader, he has proved himself...