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Jenkins is unique among the few top-notch violinists that jazz has produced. Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti have been the instrument's two most successful improvisors, each using a fluid instrumental technique that can approach the offhand fluency of a saxophone or trumpet. Jenkins is the most violinistic violinist in improvised music; his effective use of double-stops (two notes bowed together), rapid bowing, and pizzicato techniques places him much closer to the classical violin tradition than any of his predecessors in jazz...
...writing here suffers from a certain bland sameness, but, fortunately, the work of the individual musicians that Jenkins chose for this session is of high quality and originality. "Dancing On a A Melody" is self-descriptive: Jenkins bows an abstract written theme while trombonist George Lewis improvises on top. Lewis represents the younger second generation of AACM musicians, and here he manages to coax from his horn a variety of fluid sonorities that it was probably never intended to make...
...sound a bit optimistic after only one game, but it looks like "it"--the revamped Harvard offense, powerplay and four line system--will work. In fact, everything but the "sorry, only oreos and coke" concession stand already appears to be in top form...
...Serrano nabbed a hard pass in the end zone for the tying score. Terry Kasbeer kicked the extra point to put Eliot on top 7-6 at the half...
More freestylers were needed to strengthen the relays and allow flexibility in lineup decisions. But the most glaring necessity was to find a top-notch, preferably world-class breaststroker. This year's freshman class promises to fill all of these gaps, and more...