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...there’s a complaint to be lodged against Pinback, it’s that the songs all sound more or less the same. Nearly every song was dominated by the lead guitar and bass (the bass much higher in the mix than usual for rock bands); vocals are buried beneath each song’s few riffs to the point of unintelligibility; no song strayed far from its studio version. None of this is particularly bad in itself, but it can get tiring after 90 minutes...
CHARLIE CHRISTIAN THE GENIUS OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR...
...years B.C. (before Christian), the jazz guitar was mostly a rhythm instrument. In his hands, it emerged as a brilliantly lyrical solo voice, one that echoes in virtually every electric guitarist who has followed. Christian's death from tuberculosis at 25 made him one of jazz's greatest might-have-beens. This four-disc package--largely his 1939-41 appearances as a precocious star of Benny Goodman's combos--proves that he was one of jazz's greatest, period...
...complicated itinerary between Kansas and Texas,” she adds. Carlisle grew up in a musical Montanan household—“James Taylor was always playing,” she says. Her first major inspiration was her father, who taught her how to sing and play guitar while she was in her late teens. Her second influence, once she had learned to drive, came from the country stations whose signal filtered through her car. After arriving at Harvard, Carlisle found another inspiration at Harvard Square’s Club Passim—her producer/co-writer/keyboardist Russell Wolff...
This summer, Yuan’s goal is to continue trying his hand at a “crapload of stuff.” He plans on improving his skill with jazz, buying a new guitar, and perhaps composing a little...