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Sunday, April 10. Thanking Hank: A Salute to the Piano Master, featuring the Harvard Jazz Bands, Hank Jones on piano and Joe Lovano on saxophone, with the Harvard Jazz Bands. 7 p.m. Sanders Theater. Regular tickets $15. Students and senior citizens $8. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
According to Lepson, Creeley is said to have studied the rifts and phrases of Jazz legends like Charlie Parker to develop a sense of style. He even had several of his poems put to music by his friend Steve Lacey, she said...
...formative years to his recent autobiographical work. If it all gets too much, there's a chance to drop out, or at least drop off, in a chill-out zone with Crumb's music on the soundtrack. He plays the banjo, composes his own music, and is into early jazz. Crumb's wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, is also a cartoonist and sometimes they produce his-and-hers strips - he draws him, she draws her. A Day in Our Beautiful Life (2000) shows them after they moved to a French village in the early '90s. She's appalled that...
...Mona, 1970: The Jazz Singer of fuck films, Mona was pretty sure of itself for a lonely pioneer. It had a busy soundtrack: clavichord, old pop tunes, harmonica and jug band music, an Indian raga and a long audio extract from The Taming of the Shrew. It revealed Mona as a kind of fellatio virtuoso: when a guy she has solicited for a back-alley blow job tries to pay her, she replies daintily, "I didn't do it for money. I have a taste for these things." It boasts a piquant blend of tease and sympathy...
Remember, though, that the place’s wacky experimental leanings mean you may not always love what you hear. Its Monday night regular band, The Fringe, is supposedly the longest-running avant-garde jazz outfit in Cambridge, but when TheHotSpot heard it this week we found the rambling two-and-a-half-hour set to be bizarre, brash…and incredibly boring. And TheHotspot even likes Ornette Coleman...