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...Team could have played in one of London's narrow red phone booths and still had room to spare. Literally. Ian Parton - who performs like a one-man band on the Astoria's stage, playing guitar, keyboard, recorder, drums, melodica, harmonica and various percussion instruments - used to do everything solo. The former documentary filmmaker wrote, recorded, mixed samples and produced the band's Mercury Prize-nominated debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike. "I would just monkey around after work," explains 32-year-old Parton, nursing a pint of lager outside his local pub in the English seaside resort of Brighton...
...film’s magnificent final act, is not found in a romantic viewing of the sunrise over the idyllic Kentucky countryside; it’s in the climactic memorial service for Drew’s father, drenched by sprinklers, surrounded by fire, and listening to the guitar solo from “Free Bird.” In its quirkiness, plot structure, reliance on music, and examination of a character overcoming malaise through an unexpected romance, “Elizabethtown” calls to mind “Garden State” (and looks worse for the comparison). While...
...tragedy of the solo pianist: all alone with no one to play with. No orchestras, no choruses. When they are given the chance to perform with others, they can be trampled—as “accompanists,” they are roped into playing second-rate orchestral reductions with diva violinists and sopranos. Fortunately, the Harvard Piano Society (HPS), founded in 2000, addresses this dilemma. One of Harvard’s most inclusive music groups, it was originally created as a kind of meeting place for piano-types. Of course, the HPS is more than a musical dating...
...enthusiasm for vigorous activity isn't rare among Japanese, who have the longest life spans in the world. Seniors there regularly break records. In 2002, Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to scale Everest, at 63, and 71-year-old Minoru Saito recently became the oldest person to sail solo around the world without stopping. "I thought my life after 70 was finished," says Saito, as weathered as a tugboat and as trim as a battleship. "But I could still keep doing things my way, with complete freedom." During his 244-day voyage, the modern-day Ulysses scared...
...this talk about Monk’s brilliance shining through during his performances overshadows one fact: that John Coltrane’s performance with Monk rivals that of his first classic solo album, “Blue Train,” released the same year. This is not the cathartic, redemptive Coltrane of “A Love Supreme;” Coltrane, who obviously is inspired by the beauty of Monk’s music, acts as an extension of Monk. He, unlike many bebop players of that time, “gets” Monk, and his solos...