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Three have already hit the road. Lollapalooza, the five-year-old alternative-rock extravaganza, defied expectations this time around by booking Metallica, a mainstream metal band, as its headliner. (Says Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich: "We wanted to throw this concert for a loop.") H.O.R.D.E., which has built a reputation over the past four years as a haven for tie-dyed twentysomethings, has a solid lineup featuring Blues Traveler and Lenny Kravitz. Meanwhile, the scrappy, year-old Warped Tour has won a following among the particular set of youngsters who enjoy punk rock, ska and skateboarding. Next week the House...
...sound track is already here, on a just released Verve CD. As the jazzmen of yore might've said, it's a gas. The mix of 21 musicians includes veteran players whose stylistic roots go back to Kansas City and beyond--alto saxophonist David ("Fathead") Newman Jr., drummer Victor Lewis--and younger stars who actually seem to enjoy paying their respects to tradition--tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, guitarist Mark Whitfield, bassist Christian McBride. On track after track, soloists of different generations find a common groove. On Froggy Bottom, altoist Newman, 66, and guitarist Whitfield, 29, turn out to speak...
...drummer Jo Jones once reminisced that when he started jamming in Kansas City, it wasn't unusual for a single number to go on for an hour or more: "They didn't tell me at that time that they used to change drummers so I just sat there and played the whole time for pure joy." For the 63 minutes that this CD goes on, one can listen the same...
...educator; his elder brother Branford is a saxophonist; and one of his younger brothers, Delfeayo, is a trombone player. In New Orleans, a city as overflowing with jazz players as a bubbling pot of gumbo, Wynton was an early standout, a musical prodigy. As a teenager he played with drummer Art Blakey. Before Marsalis turned 22, he recorded a classical album that won a Grammy...
Everclear's major-label debut album, Sparkle and Fade (Capitol), explores life on the emotional and economic edge with passion and wisdom. On songs that range from the tragic realism of Heroin Girl to the lyricism of Queen of the Air, Alexakis and his bandmates, bassist Craig Montoya and drummer Greg Eklund, manage to combine introspection with raw power. "This record is about getting out of bad situations," says Alexakis, a former cocaine user who gave up drugs 12 years ago, and says he's been clean ever since (he's now married and has a three-year-old daughter...