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...November 1959, and Haden has just pulled into New York City. He's keeping fast company, part of a jazz quartet that also includes drummer Billy Higgins, trumpeter Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman, who is exploring the outside edge of the stratosphere with his alto sax. They are opening at the Five Spot, the Manhattan mecca for cutting-edge jazz. It is one of those debut dates that are more like a trial by fire: chops will be checked out, irrevocable judgments passed. Slipping the cover off his bass, Haden, who is 22, looks up at the bar and sees...
Wareham, formerly of the Harvard-bred band Galaxie 500, joins ex-Chills bassist Justin Harwood and drummer Stan Demeski of the late great Feelies to form Luna2--a trio with exceptional musical talent and song writing ability. Their first offering includes a few medium-tempo riff-based gems ("Slide," "Anesthesia," "Crazy People" and "Time to Quit") as well as a pretty attempt at country-rock ("Time"), and some faster beat-driven tunes ("I Can't Wait," "Slash Your Tires" and "Smile...
Seeing the band off into rock-group valhalla were seven other bands, each offering a short set in tribute to Bullet Lavolta. Among the more notable opening acts, Legendary Lunch featured a buffed drummer, and Chloe put on a wild show. When they played "Lost Cause" by the Australian band, the Cosmic Psychos, Gipe jumped on stage to perform the vocals...
...little like a car collector griping that some fine detailing on the chrome spoils the lines. Spruced up though they are, these songs sound nasty and urgent as ever. The quality is so direct and uncluttered that it can take you straight back to the days that drummer Sam Myers recalls in the album notes, when he, James and the band would pile into a nine-passenger station wagon with their instruments and head on down the road. You couldn't miss 'em: that black-and-white wagon had a yellow broom painted on the side and a big sign...
...Drummer Marcello Ozain said that the order'sprovisions, if enforced, would virtually ban himfrom performing in Cambridge. The noise levelrestrictions are impossible for drummers tomonitor, he said...