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...Girl of Mine" and his sensaysh cover of Sy Oliver?s "Yes Indeed." We came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David "Fathead" Newman. This was irrepressible, good-timey music, as if the early Charles had been absolved of sin and guilt and was finally permitted to express unmitigated joy. In Charles? gravelly vocals, joy sounds like the residue of a lifetime of pain. It?s not what...
...minutes, begins with water-bubble sounds, cueing its novelty nature; but it had drive and its narrator?s tough-guy befuddlement at finding "a party going on" outside his bathroom. "Queen of the Hop," with Darin?s tentative, occasionally flat vocal submerged beneath a guitar and a sax that both beat a hard rhythm, was choked with references to recent songs ("Peggy Sue," "Good Golly, Miss Molly," "Sugartime," "Short Shorts," "Lollipop," "Sweet Little Sixteen") and dances (the chicken, the stroll), with a commercially canny citation of Dick Clark?s "Bandstand...
...beyond the centerfield fence and see the old Aiken Street Bridge, painted a rust-colored orange and standing out amidst the leafy trees. It looks even more evocative of this mechanics' town than the painting of it on the cover of my dog-eared copy of Kerouac's Dr. Sax. "Dad wasn't kidding," I say to Kevin. "They really have done everything right down here...
...members of this group had not all played together prior to their set. However, their improvisations (and occasional dissonance) did not detract from their act.Their psychadelic jazz and funk beats pulsed through the gradually growing audience while the plaintive melodies of the sax and violin accompanied. The band's forty minutes of almost non-stop playing established the perfect casual and groovy environment for the evening...
...band now showcases a powerful brass section of Daniel Rhodes '01 on trumpet and Eric Rosenbaum '01 on trombone; a groovy sax section of Alec Spiegelman '03 on alto, Alexander Scammon on baritone and Jake Fleming '01 on tenor; Ari Appel '02 on guitar; Mike Large '01 on keyboard and the band's only off campus member, Brett Rautenberg, on drums...