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DIED. PERCY HEATH, 81, nimble, forceful jazz bassist and last surviving charter member of the esteemed Modern Jazz Quartet, whose finely organized arrangements and restrained sound were sometimes called cool jazz; in Southampton, N.Y. An accompanist to such greats as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, he provided the low-key backbone of the innovative Modern Jazz Quartet from 1952 until the enduring ensemble finally dissolved...
...Banquet,” the band’s first single from their debut LP “Silent Alarm,” is first and foremost a showcase for the talents of drummer Matt Tong and bassist Gordon Moakes. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better sounding rhythm section in any band currently working. Tong and Moakes play off of each other so well you’d swear they were conjoined at the head if the video didn’t show otherwise. Meanwhile, Kele Okereke, the band’s dreadlocked singer/guitarist...
...Hoboken, N. J. band emerged two decades ago from the throbbing creative arteries of guitarist/mastermind Ira Kaplan, bassist James McNew, and drummer Georgia Hubley. The band has undergone some major stylistic transitions over the years, and all their incarnations are represented on this sprawling compilation...
Marsalis and the three members of his band, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, will play heartrending ballads from their most recent CD, “Eternal...
...dark memory will occlude the band's sunnier disposition - May 18 marks 25 years since Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis hanged himself. His suicide ended the short but revolutionary run of New Order's precursor. Formed in 1977 by working-class Mancunians Curtis, Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris, Joy Division embraced the social anger and energy of punk and took it in a different direction - improvising with electronic sound and synthesizers. The band was on the cusp of commercial success, but Curtis, an epileptic who was tortured by his failing marriage, took a sad shortcut...