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Right around the corner, they constantly have solid musical acts for mad cheap prices. Really! We're not shitting you. It's at the House of Blues. Friday at 10 p.m. is Angela Straley singing the blues, and Saturday at 10 p.m. Elvin Bishop. 96 Winthrop St. 497-2229. $12 for Friday and $15 for Saturday...
...hasworked with such luminaries as Bill Evans andKeith Jarrett, is well matched to both trios.Motian embellishes and decorates the beat ratherthan filling space by pounding out rhythms, so hiseffective contributions can be easily overlooked.His solos are distinctive--they are not dense,roaming waves of sound in the vein of Elvin Jones,nor are they marked by a closing of the hi-hat onevery off-beat as in standard drum technique.Starting and stopping in flurries, Motian's soloinventions are also distinguished by the light,almost tinny sound quality of his drums...
...Village Vanguard" falls roughly at the midpoint of Coltrane's career, both chronologically and stylistically. He had just changed recording labels and had only recently settled on a brilliant rhythm section featuring pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones. Coltrane's style and musical conception never stopped changing throughout his career, and these recordings reflect a serious departure from the structures and techniques of mainstream jazz of the time. Complex, static song structures were inhibiting what Coltrane wanted to do musically and he began looking towards Eastern ethnic music for influence. Coltrane began to experiment with instrumentation to dramatic effect...
...would go to meeting at the Michigan Baptist Church, Jones ultimately chose to follow the jazz life, a through route from home to perdition. "My father," he recalls, "thought jazz was the music of the devil." The devil took him straight to the Apple; took his younger brothers too. Elvin Jones became a wizard drummer; Thad, a superb horn player...
...first set on Saturday night featured two mysterious compositions by Elvin's Japanese wife, Keiko Jones. Starting with Keiko's misleadingly innocent Japanese folk melodies, The Jazz Machine used both pieces as vehicles for high drama, exploring every nuance of Elvin's protean grooves. Tenor saxophonist Greg Tardy has shown considerable development in the past two years. He movingly demonstrated his growing mastery of Coltrane's licks with chorus after chorus of blowing in a style hauntingly evocative of his idol. His exploratory forays entered into the area of choked cries, multiphonics, and ever-multiplying expansions of the harmonic structure...