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When Eddie Palmieri plays the piano, it’s a religious experience. Jazz, deriving from 1920s slang meaning “sex” or “orgasm,” is often exuberant, but Palmieri, with his whole body convulsing as he played the piano, pushed jazz to its orgiastic, ecstatic limits at last Saturday’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Connection in Sanders Theatre...
Juan Tizol’s “Caravan,” performed by the Sunday Jazz Band, followed the opening piece. Growing out of just bass, drums and piano, “Caravan” snaked into a full-fledged number that was emblematic of early jazz, and yet still managed to capture an exotic Latin feel...
...basic. Bird frequently does a wonderful job of layering different elements, but occasionally, mixing too many ideas works to the detriment of the song as a whole. Take “Armchairs.” Bird begins with a slow wash of sound, which grows and changes slightly as piano comes to the fore. The song turns to lounge jazz, and then the song goes big at the end, crashing and bold—and then, nearly six minutes in, the rhythm shifts to make it sound like another song. The multidimensionality of it all, the beauty in both...
...Perhaps because he began his writing career fully disillusioned, Vonnegut's view of the world changed very little over his five decades as an author. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1952 and set in a spiritually empty, hyper-mechanized future dystopia. (Vonnegut mixed literature with science fiction long before it was cool.) His most famous novel - his personal favorite, and the one that deals with most directly with the Dresden disaster - is Slaughterhouse-Five, the story of one Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time": Billy experiences the events of his life in random order...
...York I love you, but you’re wasting my time / Our records all show you were filthy but fine.” Then there’s “All My Friends,” early frontrunner for song of the year. Freight train piano chords, a galloping bass, and Murphy belting out, “Where are your friends tonight?” Sonically, it’s New Order’s “Age of Consent” on HGH; lyrically, it’s something completely new. Objectively, it?...