Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outside a furniture store: "For all your bedroom needs, everything but the girl." They couldn't have chosen a better name, because that is exactly what one likes about this album, everything but the you-know-who. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt firs came out in 1982 with a jazz-pop sound, and people kind of liked them then. Now, numerous covers, one big Todd Terry remix club hit ("Missing"), one milestone album (Walking Wounded), several style shifts and too many years later, they hit out with a diffused house album that can't reach the mark. Temperamental...
Self-described American disco-folk, The Humming is also jazz-influenced, with a twist of reggae. This versatile and harmonious band has taken American rock-and-roll where it should be, away from whiny bands to musicianship and joy. Each band member is a real artist in his own right, and together Ian Steams, Reggie Martell, Ty Gibbons '00 and Frisbay create a unique sound. It is hard to succinctly describe a song set that included jazz breakdowns, a slide didgeridoo, the drummer on vocals and a jig. Some lounge, some first wave ska and some B.B. King slipped through...
...Ludwig, 33, probably does not know what the Pit is. He happened to drop in from Austria, and was idling over an ice-cream before gunning it back to Logan to catch his plane. Jazz and classical are his realm, but he will venture a thought on pop when forced to do so. Ludwig is reserved in his opinions, but is almost certainly a man of good taste, as inferred from his revulsion at our interrogative assault. At the least, his point of view possesses the advantage of maturity as well as continentality...
...into all sorts of music from jazz to hip-hop, encapsulating hardcore, rock 'n roll, classical, oldies and folk. James Brown is her reason for dancing. The names flow like water when she starts listing who she likes, but her ultimate favorites are Led Zeppelin and the Beatles because when she listens to their music, she falls in love. If she were to make everyone in the world listen to one person, it would be Bob Marley, because Bob Marley brings the world together... everyone...
...solution. Students, their IDs, and five bucks meet chamber music and a flower-filled courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Fenway, Boston; 566-1401; T or No. 39 bus: Museum of Fine Arts; Thursday, Friday and Sunday afternoons and evenings; lectures, gallery and garden tours and jazz series are also offered; museum open Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Pretentious, yes, but these soundscapes will soothe the mind, especially since there is no final exam...