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CHARLES MINGUS: EPITAPH (Columbia). Jazz, in today's approved jargon, is called Afro-American classical music. No work has better claim to that description than Epitaph, a monumental composition (more than two hours long) by the protean jazz bassist who died in 1979. Shifting from blues to Ellington-like mood pieces to cacophonous yawps, the work is scored for a 30- piece band. It was performed once in Mingus' lifetime, haphazardly. This live recording comes from Epitaph's real world premiere, at New York City's Lincoln Center last June. Composer and jazz historian Gunther Schuller led an all-star...
Roberts and Rouse manage to complement each other well on this tune. Robert supplies just the right amount of light chord action when Rouse, who played with Monk in the 1960s, give his instrument his all. In addition, the bassist, Reginald Veal, also does a bang up job. Veal, who is currently a member of the Marsalis quintet, not only blends well with Roberts and Rouse, but he successfully explores a wide variety of interesting themes during his solo...
...band, which will perform tonight at a dance at Lowell House, is one of the few campus-based bands that still performs its own songs. Their repertoire consists of about 40 tunes that they have written themselves plus about 10 cover tunes, says bassist Andrew E. Bush '90. Other members of the band include guitarist Daniel A. Brenner '85-86, drummer Richard C. Peaslee '89 and guitarist Michael Ross...
GREEN Fuse started two and half years ago when Brenner and Ross met as editors of a Harvard Student Agencies travel guide. Brenner and Ross added bassist Robert Todd, a Tufts graduate, Melissa Dubroff '86 on percussion and back-up vocals and Peaslee to complete their band. They borrowed their name from a Dylan Thomas poem...
...Stones' current hiatus--and Richards has said in recent interviews that it is only a hiatus, not a permanent dissolution--gave Richards that opportunity. He assembled a crack band of studio musicians and impressive guests, including veteran studio guitarist Waddy Wachtel, star New Orleans pianist Ivan Neville, funkster bassist Bootsy Collins, Talking Heads keyboard sideman Bernie Worrell and E Street Band vocalist Patti Scialfa. Dubbed the X-Pensive Winos (Richards' comment on their salaries and drinking habits), these players have allowed the star to do things...