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Broadway. the very word conjures up familiar images-descending helicopters, ascending cats, lines of embarrassingly exuberant dancers kicking up their legs and belting out endless choruses of catchy ditties. The word jazz evokes an aesthetic of a different sort-two-drink minimums, low-key cool, wandering saxophone solos that trail...
Another musical collaboration on the album, "Backwoods Galaxy," the eighth track, pairs Fleck's banjo with Chick Corea's piano and Branford Marsalis' tenor saxophone. The three musicians establish the song's complicated tone by first hammering out a funky, amorphous wall of sound. The banjo then sets up a...
Sanders rose from utter obscurity to relative fame when he joined John Coltrane's group in 1965 and began to scandalize and thrill audiences with his cataclysmic solos whose language was not melody but pure sound. Recordings from this period reveal a relentlessly experimental musician who can create fascinating textures...
When Sanders chose to really play,instead of clowning around with the audience, hewas forceful and inspiring. At its best, the groupused the static harmonic framework of a model vampto create a spacious aural landscape. The courseof each tune was directed more towards detailingthat landscape than drawing out the linearprogression...
Thomas' 21st Century Blues from da Hood, with its unusual but mostly successful attempt to combine blues and rap, is the most ambitious of the three new CDs. His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos. Thomas, 29, tries to bring the blues into the...