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...They’re all original songs except for one, which is a cover of the Montel Bass song “Rescue Me.” It’s an upbeat, Motown kind of song, so we did a slower, more sultry jazz version. A couple of the tracks are from the first album I recorded that was an independently released album. I was 16 when I made it so we wanted to go back and revisit some of those songs, especially because it only was locally released so we wanted to spread that music out a little...
...Feist - “Gatekeeper” (live KCRW radio session): Hello dear. Not quite as good as “Secret Heart” but still one of the best tracks on the album, and this live version is quite groovy with those very mellow fake jazz chords. 5. Paul Wall - “Oh No ft. Trae”: Oh no, friggin’ a, the hook is so hot. It had to be Mike Jones, ushering in that new wave of dirty south, Texas-style. Who Is Mike Jones...
BEATS AND BEBOP LOCATION: Lowell Lecture Hall DATE: Nov. 12 PRESENTED BY: The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers and the Sunday Jazz EnsembleAlthough “Beats and Bepop” was nominally a joint presentation by The Sunday Jazz Ensemble (SJE) and The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD), it was, effectively, a night of two concerts with remarkably different musical approaches. Only a final piece by the SJE included collaboration with THUD as percussionists...
Indeed, after the upbeat jazz of SJE, it seemed almost unfair that THUD served as dessert, since the musical appreciation required for the less mainstream THUD is so different...
...white-tie tuxes, give a laid-back ’40s and ’50s vibe to all their proceedings. Evan D. Siegel ’07 took full advantage of his rich, full voice to convey a longing and sadness in his performance of the Thelonius Monk jazz classic “Round Midnight,” setting the pace for the entire set. Though obviously well rehearsed and harmonized, for a typical undergraduate familiar with Top 40 music like me, their classic set tended to be less attention grabbing than the Lowkeys’s pop songs...