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This kind of humor doesn’t even seem self-conscious or nervous when Fox says it because he is genuinely relaxed. He is a jazz pianist at the helm of the Danny Fox Quartet (Quintet or Trio, depending on the night) that plays local shows, including appearances at Club Passim, Loeb House receptions, Cabot housemaster birthday parties and other assorted events. So a foray into the jazz music world is a definite possibility if the whole joining the circus thing doesn’t work out. Instead of tickling the ivories professionally, however, Fox could also see himself...
...same time, the women’s Atlantic Coast Championships were being held at the United States Naval Academy. There, the quintet of sophomores Jennie Philbrick, Diana Rodin, Emily Nielson, and Caroline Dixon and senior Rehana Gubin, representing the No. 6 Harvard women’s sailing team, did not fare quite as well, placing fourteenth. The young team was hampered by a lack of practice time, due both to darkness and to the fact that Harvard owns only two Flying Juniors and two 420s, the boats used in the competition...
Radiohead BRITAIN Hailing from Oxford, this art-rock quintet spins futuristic songs about the disillusioned and the disoriented, about aliens and creeps--but often with a glimmer of hope. Key albums: OK Computer...
...between ages 20 and 22, hopes to conquer its homeland. The band just released its first full-length CD, Is This It (RCA), a scrappy, old-school rock album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention to things like that," says...
...another all-timer, "Spanish Harlem" - was recorded in King?s first solo session after leaving The Drifters, a group that had been at Atlantic, with many personnel permutations, from its inception as a support staff for singer Clyde McPhatter in 1953. Since 1958, when the remnants of the original quintet were replaced by King?s group, the Five Crowns, their songs had been produced by Leiber and Stoller, in a smooth Latinate ballady groove that was new to both the Drifters (who had specialized in R&B) and their producers (who had made their rep with funky, catarrhal blues records...