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...cacophony of violins; ultimately, the music wins out. And there are striking things to follow. The scope of most of these songs is grand; they encompass a world of moods, and each line can turn on a pin. Tender chords blend into spastic dance, fall into velvet strains of jazz, and then cycle back again. The music detours and diverges, but it is never allowed to drift—Herren’s skilled hand keeps all the parts moving behind the scenes, ensuring that even the most abrupt shift feels integral to the shape of the song. And often...
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group Friday, Feb. 17, and Saturday, Feb. 18. 7:30 and 10:00 PM. Regattabar at the Charles Hotel. $18. Who needs college? Not Kurt Rosenwinkel. In 1992, after spending two-and-a-half years studying jazz guitar at the Berklee School of Music, Rosenwinkel dropped out, leaving Boston for the greener pastures of international jazz stardom. This weekend, he returns to his college town—only this time he’ll be playing across the Charles in Cambridge’s Regattabar Jazz Club. After leaving school, Rosenwinkel toured internationally with famed vibraphonist Gary Burton...
...Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) celebrated the launch of the revamped Remix magazine last night in Ticknor Lounge. Students flipped through the pages of the newly unveiled full-color glossy while munching on cheese and crackers and listening to live jazz. The magazine, which began as a black-and-white newsletter-style publication, has been enhanced and redesigned under the direction of David A. Williams ’07, the magazine’s editor-in-chief and the publications chair of BMF. The original Remix was founded in 2002 to create a forum for open discussion...
...learned that art is a task, first and foremost.With an elegance particular to matron dancers, Mallardi speaks of her life with a combination of grace and wry humor. Her stories flow from convivial to grave, from focused to tangential. She spent her childhood in the Bronx, learning tap and jazz by going to the cinema and imitating Fred Astaire and his ilk. Her first dance class was part of an after-school physical education program, and it was in this unlikely setting that she had her first creative breakthrough. When given an assignment to “do something?...
DIED. BOB WEINSTOCK, 77, jazz producer who, at age 20, parlayed a family loan into an indie label that became Prestige, home to some of jazz's greatest musicians; in Boca Raton, Fla. He encouraged his artists to record long, unrehearsed jams. Among the results: the 1956 John Coltrane-- Sonny Rollins saxophone duet Tenor Madness and the seminal four-album series Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Relaxin', Workin' and Steamin...