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...blues ideas and catalyzes them with muted electric guitars. He never makes his rock-blues fusion seem like a mere experiment or a lark; when he plays his fuzzy, rambling riffs, they seem natural and flowing. His trouble is a tendency for his songs to collapse into a sonic murk. But a few, such as New Machine, maintain a sense of musical momentum and connect emotionally...
...second side of Band of Gypsys tries to put the agony and confusion of the first side out of mind. Hendrix is obviously just as comfortable riffing along to happy Sly Stone grooves as he is in his sonic explorations. The contrast to the first side is somewhat hard to take, especially on the two compositions written by Miles, "Changes" and "We Gotta Live Together," as the audience is encouraged to clap with silly shouts of "Yeah!" "Everything's gonna be alright!" The two remaining Hendrix compositions, "Power to Love" and "Message of Love" are more intriguing. These two tracks...
...suspect that Midori is attempting a subtler rendition of this concerto than normally heard, but if so, her efforts are not obvious enough for my taste. I do not encounter the "Nordic winter landscape" that Sibelius was said to strive for, so much as a vast sonic wash of gray...
...form combines the rich sounds of jazz playing with the insistent rhythms of hip-hop. The jazz performances are often samples -- snippets of music from classic jazz records. These pieces of sound are then reassembled into a sonic collage and set to a new beat with a rapper speaking over them. On Blowout Comb, Digable Planets draws not only on jazz but on R. and B. as well. In addition to relying on samples, Planets employs live musicians on many of the tracks, a move that allows the songs to breathe and flow into extended jams. Pop songs tend...
...were about the only coed bands around; now they are common. Even the house band on Late Show with David Letterman has added a female guitarist. The foundation of the recent trend was laid in the late '70s and early '80s by such rock heroines as Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous as a horse with an accordion. Says Madder Rose guitarist-singer Mary Lorson: "I didn't really start playing guitar...