Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, 876-7777. Razzmataz on Thursday, March 23. The Yellowjackets on Friday, March 24. The Donna Byrne Quintet on Saturday, March 25. The New Black Eagle Jazz Band on Sunday, March...
...Ellis and brother of Wynton, Branford Marsalis comes from a family of jazz greats. He is as well-trained and experienced as any saxophone player today, but unlike the rest of his family, he does not believe that "jazz" music is determined by whether or not it swings, bops or adheres to any general notion of "canonical jazz." That's why you hear him playing alongside Sting, Bruce Hornsby and The Grateful Dead, and in front of "The Tonight Show" band and now Buckshot LeFonque...
...Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ, with intermittent help from a house rapper and three Caribbean dancehall rappers...
...repertoire consisted of tunes that were rooted either in jazz, hiphop, or dancehall. The hip-hop and jazz tunes worked out best overall, but there was a sense that with all of the elements in place, the music still didn't grab you. It was smart, it was cool, and it was very tastefully arranged, but it didn't reach any new realms of musical experience. In other words, it was hip, but it didn...
...gets its name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...