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Nowhere to go from there but mellow, they decelerated into “Slow Ride” (the title cut from the new album) which Frankie played with a personal and meditative air, descending from the bandstand and playing among the tables, each time with a slightly different nuance. After shaking everyone’s hand with a hardy and humble “Nice to meet you, I’m Frankie V,” he retook center stage and the band gelled with their keystone back in place, listening to the tune one last time...
...deviation above the average should earn a student a B-plus. Only those truly exceptional students—those rare double-“sigmas”—should be awarded an A-minus. Put the A out of reach, and most of the sigma fiends will mellow out. Harvard students have spent their whole lives being perfect. If there is anything this school should teach them, it’s that they...
...throughout was palpable. The centerpiece of the band’s sound was always Maal’s supple, soaring voice that leapt as easily as it trilled on half-tones. African bands are sometimes slightly mystified and frustrated by playing to a seated audience, but given the more mellow acoustic performance, the theater was ideal in its immediacy of contact between performers and audience. It remains a mystery why the audience at such performances by African superstars is dominated by white world music junkies, while more or less no interested African-Americans attend...
...contrast, however, the second, diminutively titled “+” disc is sheer, unadulterated pleasure. Here, Scott digs deep into the bag of Baduisms and comes up with her own brand of sweet, sweet soul. This disc is so understated and mellow that it almost sounds as though a different singer has commandeered the spotlight after the exhausting pitch of the live material. “Gotta Get Up” is a classic soul song that might have been a Curtis Mayfield cover were it not for the reference to “staying at home...
...first act has an unsure, all-over-the-map feel about it. It tries to strike a balance between comedy, pathos and the harsh reality of Sam’s condition, but these tones frequently conflict; the pairing of hand-held camera footage with mellow string passages in the score seems particularly incongruous...