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...enough. Or, possibly I’m too “dumb.” Perhaps I don’t have the “intelligence” required; or, I am intelligent enough, but in my “foolishness” as I labor over a keyboard, I temporarily don’t have the ability to understand what this book was all about. Otherwise, it could be a lack of “cognitive ability” or a dearth of “rationality”—or maybe it is an overwhelming...
Next up were The Stone Cutters, a six-piece, white, t-shirted jam band with three guitars, drums, saxophone, occasional keyboard and tambourine. They jumped and head-banged their way through a set that included many originals, as well as crowd-pleasers like The Cars’ “I Think You’re Just What I Needed” and Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.” The drummer and the lead guitarist doubled as singers, displaying the talent that made this band strong vocally and instrumentally. The pair...
...Center, is quite a trek from the River Houses and even farther from the Quad. Its hours are miserly, especially on weekends, and its grand pianos tend to be far less than grand. Although the Houses have practice facilities of their own, they often contain few rooms dedicated to keyboard practice, and their pianos are perpetually out of tune. Even the illustrious concert grand in the Eliot House tower—donated by Leonard Bernstein no less—needs serious reworking...
...Ashanti, 19, combines the hip-hop delivery of Mary J. Blige with the modulated control of Alicia Keys. Both are fine singers to emulate, but Ashanti needs to find her own voice. It doesn't help that the album's breakout hit, Foolish, is built around El DeBarge's keyboard sample from Stay With Me, a sample made famous by the Notorious B.I.G. on his signature hit One More Chance...
...Moreover, the sound that the Group cultivates is so electronic that it removes any spirit from the music. Heavy drapes covered Mays’ grand piano to dampen any resonance, and Vu’s trumpet was so heavily processed that he might as well been playing an electronic keyboard. The sum total was largely lifeless music that was soothing, placating and soporific...