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...Rahsaan J. Glover, a technician at Moto Photo, was standing outside his workplace on Dunster Street across from Holyoke Center at 11 a.m. when he heard glass smashing above him. Glover looked up in time to see Podkopaev step out of the window "like he was just stepping off the sidewalk...
...numerous other instruments, chose a year of jazz study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and then apprenticed himself to a series of cold-water flats and smoky New York City jazz clubs. He got a break in the mid-1960s by sitting in with saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk; that was followed by gigs with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis and eventually a solo career, encouraged by German record producer Manfred Eicher, who recorded the young Jarrett on the fledgling ECM label in 1971, and has produced his records ever since...
...call that sampling. On this song, US 3 plays bits from old jazz songs. Rapper Rahsaan speaks over the music -- not staccato-style like most rappers, but easy and loose, like another instrument. Then, topping it all off, there's a live trumpeter, Gerard Presencer. His solos slink through the track, linking the parts...
There's a special flavor to music heard live in clubs: more relaxed than on records -- often fiercer too, with inhibiting mikes out of the performers' way. The first releases from Night Records, a new Virgin Records label specializing in live performances, catch four jazz stylists (Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les McCann, Eddie Harris and Cannonball Adderley) in moods that seldom found their way onto more formal recordings. Kirk, best known for his atonal virtuosity in blowing three saxes at once, plays clarinet with a traditional New Orleans band in a sly, down-home version of The Black and Crazy Blues...
Ullman, who teaches English at Tufts and writes jazz criticism for The New Republic, has padded his book with stock appreciations of the recent dead-- Joe Venuti, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. These great artists certainly merit our attention, but Ullman's second-hand tributes east little light on the jazz life. The real meat of Jazz Lives lies in the words of its less celebrated subjects. Many readers will find most of the names unfamiliar, but none of them are second-rate, and they speak with authority and often with charm. Only remember that every musician in this book...