Word: jazze
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Office for the Arts. Russ Gershon, the Either/Orchestra, and the Harvard Jazz Band perform works composed and arranged by Gershon, as well as a new work by Gershon specially commissioned by the Office for the Arts featuring Boston-based jazz trumpeter John Carlson. Lowell Hall, 10:30 p.m. Free...
...certainly did. Sanders won considerable popularity in his own right with albums that appealed to flower children and funkers alike, albums with names like "Karma" and "Evolution." In a sense, Sander's aesthetic was very similar to the transcendental early Seventies swill that stood on the corpse of acoustic jazz in the 1960's, althoughhis music was generally much more interesting andsoulful. In recent years, Sanders has achievedsuccess within the more narrowly defined world ofstraight-ahead jazz, employing his molten-leadtone and tastefully applied screams in effectiveversions of jazz standards...
...really play,instead of clowning around with the audience, hewas forceful and inspiring. At its best, the groupused the static harmonic framework of a model vampto create a spacious aural landscape. The courseof each tune was directed more towards detailingthat landscape than drawing out the linearprogression typical of most jazz improvisation. Attimes, the screams emanating from Sander's hornseemed like fiery blasts from the bowels of theEarth as the group reached a peak of model frenzy.Sanders seemed incapable of sustaining theenergy-level that this type of music demands,though, so these moments of epiphany werefleeting. In fact, the most convincing...
Harvard Retirees Association. TheUniversity Jazz Band performs a program titled"Big Band Sounds from the Swing Era," whileBallroom Dance Club members perform the jitterbugand other dances from the period. Paine ConcertHall, 2 p.m. Tickets for $3 are available bysending a check payable to "HURA" and aself-addressed, stamped envelope to GertrudeKeenan, 127 Woodside Lane, Arlington...
...occasional guitarist, Sebastion Steinberg on upright basses, M'ark De Gli Antoni handling the keyboards and samples, and Yuval Gabay on drums. Their music is a blend of very danceable bass and keyboard sounds and samples with surreal, beat-like vocals by Doughty. On the tune, "Sugar Free Jazz," for instance, "They normalize the signals and you're banging on freon,/Paleolithic eons, put the fake goatee on/and it booms as cool as, sugarfree jazz...