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Joshua Redman brought his highly communicative quartet to Sanders Theater on Sunday night, and it was, in his own words, "a trip." Despite the lingering immaturity of his own saxophone style, Redman has put together a solid jazz group which, with the guest appearance of the greatest bass player of our generation, Christian McBride, put the Sanders Theater stage to good use. The packed house reacted enthusiastically to Redman's every move and indeed there were moments in the show when Redman's playing almost lived up to his charisma and popular appeal...
...saturated ballads (though what couples do while listening to such songs is another matter). This summer the performers who are creating the most erotically cathartic music are the male vocal group Jodeci, whose new CD is called The Show, the After-Party, the Hotel, and the female quartet Xscape, with a new album called Off the Hook. Love songs aren't enough for these groups; they sing lust songs, exploring sweaty emotions rather than sweet ones. Their songs aren't designed to shock listeners, like Madonna's; instead, in casual language they turn common sexual experience and longing into music...
...night or so with Jodeci--the parties, the flirtations with female fans and so on. The songs flow into one another as the night winds on. Melodic rhythms rise--like the cooing Pump It Back--and recede. One song, the sublimely earthy Good Luv, features the voices of the quartet accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. The group has never sounded better. The album's only major flaw is its sexist cover art, which features the silhouette of a nude woman...
Haden put down his professional roots in Los Angeles, winning fame first as a session man, then as creator of two formidable West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...
...lanky, cranky frame into the driver's seat of his rust-pocked 1958 Lincoln Continental convertible. The car's been through a lot, and so has Young. The graying, semi-reclusive singer-songwriter was a member of the countrified '60s rock group Buffalo Springfield; one-fourth of the vocal quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; an anti-Nixon protester in the '70s; a sometime Reagan sympathizer in the '80s. Now in the '90s Young is a father figure for a new generation of alternative rockers. He turns the ignition key. The engine roars, tires spin and the Northern California roadhouse where...