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Thoughts and breath float down a golden saxophone and emerge as hundreds of liquid moans and cataclysmic rhythms on a night made for jazz. The Mama Kin Playhouse (owned by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, of all people) presented Ravi Coltrane. As the son of John Coltrane, the legendary jazz musician, Ravi is making the saxophone a treasured trademark of the Coltrane family and also creating his own style. Dapper suits and casual jeans, cocktail dresses and T-shirts all stepped into the dim club with a quiet sophistication...
Ravi is named after his father's friend, Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar player and composer. While attending graduate school at Cal Arts in Valencia, Calif., Ravi met Ralph Alessi, who was also the night's trumpet player. Although Ravi was the featured musician, Alessi repeatedly upstaged his friend. The captivated audience watched as Alessi proved his expertise with almost perfect synchronization. Shouts of praise and waves of applause from former students of Alessi concluded each solo. Graceful competition and mutual admiration between these two masters filled the stage...
...ambiance seemed similar to what John Coltrane might have known before he exploded onto the jazz scene with Miles Davis: devoted musicians playing to half-empty clubs. Ravi dipped and swayed as he played, revealing a musician dedicated to giving his art to the world, trapped in a swirl of notes...
NAME: Sean ("Puffy") Combs AGE: 28 OCCUPATION Prolific music producer/rap musician BEST PUNCH Huffily leaves behind "unfortunate experience" of Stone-directed football film The League because of the director's repeated shooting-schedule changes...
...There's no such thing as an absolute version anymore," says Bill Laswell, a musician and record producer who proved the point this summer with his remixed album of classic Miles Davis recordings, probably a jazz first. There is also a new version out of the 1958 film Touch of Evil; it is unique for having been re-edited according to the dictates of a 58-page memo written by Orson Welles after the film had been taken away from him by Universal Pictures. Welles, of course, is the patron saint of lost, botched and unfinished works. The reissue, says...