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...touring the country the past two weeks, it's a relief to hear him relaxed and just playing for a change. With his unrivaled command of tone and phrasing, his Louis Armstrong-like ability to set up a sustained note so that it hits a dramatic sweet spot, Marsalis' trumpet is particularly voicelike in its expressiveness--for him, a "with strings" outing is almost a natural. At times Robert Freedman's arrangements buoy him tastefully; at others they egg the normally cerebral player on to romantic abandon. It's the best sort of marriage between pop warmth and jazz brains...
...band's sound is light on its feet. Ballads such as Goodbye Street and Mama Used to Say breeze by, carefree and easy but never insubstantial. The band shows off its versatility in several jazzy instrumental numbers, including Pharoah's Dreams, a jaunty track adorned with a lovely, liquid trumpet solo...
Lessons, though, walk at their own pace. And Brother Bill can hardly trumpet a major victory over gang violence. True, Cabrini-Green enjoys more spells of peace than it has in years. And some hard-core gangsters have managed to break away to find jobs and move from the projects. Nonetheless, in a city with an estimated 125 active criminal gangs with as many as 70,000 members, Cabrini-Green remains the most entrenched subculture around of poverty, drug use and gang violence. So much so that the Federal Government has begun, in piecemeal fashion, to simply tear the place...
...Manbump-and-grind raging on across the street, thePforzheimer Battle of the Bands ventured to exposean original display of musical talent to an eageraudience. The show opened up with theharmonica-wielding Voodoo Crabs, an organic rockband complete with a reservoir of superchargedenergy that overshadowed such drawbacks as afailing trumpet and a shameless prance around theaudience by the lead vocalist. The Voodoo Crabs'exuberance was most likely what earned them thirdbest performer of the evening honors, although thegroup did not deserve the designation. Theharmonica solo during "Perched" was the shininghighlight of the set, but nothing else was toocaptivating. Despite giving...
Next up was the David Lewis Funk Band jammingout on a few covers of songs by such jazz greatsas Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. Overall, theLewis Band was a mixed bag: the trumpet andsaxophone players were smooth and swank, thekeyboard player tried too hard to be hip, and theelectric guitar performance was the best effortfrom anyone in the group. Though the Lewis Bandwas enjoyable and coherent, it did little to rileup the listeners...