Word: sax
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...sweet sound of a sax hits your ears. Coltrane is evident, but the sound is original. The ambience is intimate, the coffee you’re sipping tasty, and the crowd jibes with the performer. While you might think you’re in a hip café in Davis Square, the reality is that you only need to head up Garden Street to Hilles to experience this artful musical experiment, Acoustic Tuesdays. Marcus G. Miller ’08, who performs at nearly every Acoustic Tuesday with pianist Malcolm G. Campbell ’10, describes the event...
Miller continued to devote himself to sax throughout his early life, studying with various saxophonists and joining the Jazz Institute of New Jersey. A name more luxurious than accurate, the institute was comprised of a few students, some devoted teachers, and the basement of the Latino center at Rutgers. Despite its humble facilities, Miller learned the importance of improvisation as well as competition while ther. He also met his two best friends, who pushed him musically...
...first we actually hated each other,” Miller says. “Each one of us wanted to be the ‘baddest’ sax player. But then when you didn’t play well, you’d practice and show up better next week...
...deplored the vapidity of contemporary R&B for its lack of musical synergy and dancehall music for its plain ignorance. To him, there is no hard and fast line between the “sell-out” and the “authentic.” Miller plays sax because he couldn’t do otherwise...
When Liu Yuan started playing the sax, jazz was still seen as bourgeois and chord charts were hard to come by. Raised by folk-musician parents, he performed with Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock, before dedicating himself--under the influences of John Coltrane and Miles Davis--to jazz. Now Liu's East Shore is the most promising venue in Beijing's budding jazz scene. Located on the banks of Lake Houhai, East Shore is a refuge from the trinket sellers and gaudy bars along the crowded shore. Its large windows give clear views over the water, and leather...