Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith and Cinelu anchor a dynamic rhythm section which literally picks up the band and moves it along. But Cinelu is a born show-stopper. He not only played over a dozen percussion instruments, but he warmed up the crowd with a conga solo, and gave a virtuoso performance on the udu, an instrument which resembles a jar. Keyboardist Delmar Brown complements Kirkland's jazz piano with a funky Caribbean sound. Campbell was simply electric, and Marsalis was, well, just Marsalis, which means excellent...
Although Men of Clay was the only Harvard band at Rising Star that night, it is far from the only band at the University. While Men of Clay features a fusion jazz sound, Christian and the Infidels say they play "strictly rock and roll." The Rhythm Method concentrates on pure pop music...
...Rhythm Method does not cover the music of other artists, preferring to play original tunes and their own versions of other groups' songs, says lead singer John N. Axelrod '88. "We perform covers in the same way that Van Halen does Roy Orbison." As a result, The Rhythm Method generally does not play at Harvard functions...
...COODER: GET RHYTHM (Warner Bros.). Rock's supplest guitar. Any song here, old or new, clears the air like a sun-shower...
...sound of the marimba, the glowing, burnished, unpercussive tone that wafts from the four-plus-octave wooden instrument when it is struck with mallets. "I had never heard such a full and beautiful tone," recalls Stevens, who had been a high school rock drummer. "I could do all the rhythm things, and I also had melody...