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...Bejerano on piano), Haynes’ concert last Friday showcased his breadth of experience, and his mastery of the stylistic spectrum. His sensitive lightness of touch on the ballad “For All We Know” was contrasted with the face-melting tumult he unleashed on John Coltrane??s lightning-fast “Mr. P.C.” The impeccably poised swing he invoked throughout with his riding right hand was equaled by an absolute command of fluctuating time in a subtly free performance of Pat Metheny’s “Question...
With the 1959 releases of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” and John Coltrane??s “Giant Steps” the world of modern jazz changed forever. Fifty years later, Harvard University continued the tradition of these modern jazz legends last Saturday by honoring drummer Roy Haynes as the 2009 Jazz Master in Residence at Harvard University in “Cracklin’ with Roy—Honoring Roy Haynes...
...which beats throughout this mournful disc. On first single “Love Lockdown,” it absolutely pounds. Taiko drums and 808s undergird stabbing piano chords while electro-Gaye Kanye hugs the contours of a repetitious minor-blues melody. It’s the first movement to Coltrane??s “A Love Supreme” gone horribly, stunningly wrong, and Kanye’s regret seeps through the vocoding: “I’m not loving you / The way I wanted to.” The “you?...
It’s the reason Jackson Pollock gained an audience, the reason John Coltrane??s free jazz leanings became high art, the reason anyone listens to The Beatles’ “Revolution 9.” As Emerson put it, “art is a nature passed through the alembic of man”; it can translate the havoc of the world into a form that’s easier to understand...
...asked the emcee for “Behind the Music: Eccentric Alt-Rap Songwriter Edition.” We asked for hip-hop.He delivers on this tacit demand with such future classics as “Rock On.” “I show pain in the manner/of Coltrane??s ‘Alabama’/Make ’em blaze they hammer/Real girls get down on the flo’ like David Banner/When I handle/my shit, I go bananas/Man, you walking where the animals live!” That’s just five seconds...