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...Tommy" and "Tin Tin Deo," that mark the album's two opposite musical poles. "Cooking for Tommy" is the opening number on Redlight and is described by the band as "a major key, Latin-goes-ska number" that showcases the band's horns. "Tin Tin Deo," with guest percussionist Larry McDonald, exhibits the significant Jamaican reggae influence on the band's rhythm section...
Concertmaster Salley Koo '97 led the other musicians with her clean and superbly projected performance. Principal clarinetist Michael Rescorla '96 and principal flautist Aimee Gallardo '98 followed suit, each tossing off a note-heavy solo part with flair. Beginning with the Capriccio's first cadenza, principal percussionist Mary Kissel '99 turned heads and made jaws drop with her superhuman ability to sustain a snare drum solo...
Amos also has begun experimenting with new drum arrangements with Alan Friedman. The quasigrunge/industrial sound of "Professional Widow" has already been compared to the likes of Courtney Love. Her work with percussionist Mino Cinelu and drummer Manu Katche on "Talula" and "In the Springtime of his Voodoo" impresses with its interesting touches...
...much onstage signalling and Faithfull's blatant note-checking, the last half of her performance felt like a work in-progess. Her ensemble for that set includes a percussionist, electric guitarist, bassist and trumpet player--as harmonic as the New-Age-sounding synthisizers, chimes and cymbals were, they were rather ordinary next to Faithfull's cathartic voice...
...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...