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...Latin flourish. The presence of two lead guitarists (Cruz shares the duties with Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey ’08, who is also a Crimson Arts executive) keeps the generally upbeat music soaring—especially live, where the band is at its best. The band’s jammier side, Cruz insists, makes catching live shows even more of a treat. They don’t play a lot of covers—though college audiences often want them—but they make up for it with energetic, well-crafted originals and enough improvisation to sate the average...
...part, he is surfing the wave of the current American taste for jam-bands. But there are certainly jammier bands out there, even if Matthews was hawking his guitar-sax-violin combo back in the days when such a set up might be all it took to get you sandwiched between world music and jazz in musical limbo. Nor do his discerning ear and talented band seem to warrant the encomiums accorded him—there are far more talented bands going entirely unnoticed and most radio-listeners still don’t know who Jeff Buckley...
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