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...begin the album auspiciously with pieces from Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1970 “New Orleans Suite.” Here, Harris’ playing is at its bright-edged, percussive best, and his relentlessly-swinging approach pervades the whole band’s sound. Drummer Terreon Gully and bassist Derrick Hodge play with a bluesy intensity that recalls the hard-charging rhythm section of Dannie Richmond and Charles Mingus, and Steve Turre’s forceful trombone backgrounds make the ensemble sound twice its size...
...DIED. Sandy West, 47, pioneering rock drummer whose muscular riffs propelled the punk-metal sound of the Runaways, the all-girl band she co-founded in 1975 with Joan Jett; of lung cancer; in San Dimas, California. Although dismissed as a novelty act in the all-male world of rock, the Runaways influenced female-led punk bands from X-Ray Spex to the Go-Gos with raw, thumping anthems like Cherry Bomb, Born to be Bad and Is It Day or Night...
...when it comes to his books, there's a desire in him to mean something. He talks seriously about John Steinbeck and John le Carr--The Little Drummer Girl "has had more of an influence on me than any other work of suspense"--and Truman Capote. Grisham read In Cold Blood twice last year. "It's a beautiful book; it's mesmerizing; it's a classic. But there are times when I would read something that Capote wrote, and I'd say"--he makes a face. "Just, you know, I wouldn't say it that...
...Canadian culture—like FUBU: for us, by us,” said Canadian Club member Zachary B.S. Sniderman ’09. The band was not completely Canada-centric, however, and expressed interest in Cambridge’s own curious customs. After Nowski explained Primal Scream, drummer Tyler Stewart exclaimed, “You’re making me Yarvard Hard.” Robertson opened the band’s usual improvisational song with, “Parked my car in Harvard Yard, I’d say it with an accent...
...committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) march to the beat of a very, very slow drummer. As shopping period races by, the Core Standing Committee and the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) have failed to keep pace, leaving students to suffer in the confusion of mixed tempos. Despite the promise that accompanied announcements of a secondary fields program and Humanities General Education courses, the disorganized implementation of curricular reform has made this shopping period a particularly chaotic...