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...imagines it to all hold together. Adding a polished studio saxophone wail to a folk guitar song does nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds like it belongs on Sting's last album. Add in a trumpet solo (as Peck does on many tunes), a walking bass and sampled strings, and you have a very curious tune. It has the same value as the likes of buster Pointdexter or Thomas Dolby, minus the better arrangements, interesting voices, and performer personalities. Which brings us to yet another problem: Peck...
Anyone who feels that seeing jazz live isn't much different from slapping a new CD into astereo should go check out a show, any show, at any club. After watching Ahmad Jamal finally crack a smile, after hearing spit hit the floor as Tiger Okoshi cleans out his trumpet, after watching Don Byron prance maniacally around stage, even the most diehard homebodies will admit that there is nothing like seeing music unfold before their eyes...
...youngster played Lazy Day, a Sunday stroll of a song, with a drowsy trumpet and laid-back raps by Kobie Powell. In the background were R. and B. vocals, gliding over the song like a bird though a blue sky. "Isn't it great?" the fan said. "US 3 takes jazz-rap to a new level of sophistication. The Blue Note jazz label let the producers use its entire catalog as source material...
...band, meanwhile, played on, with Santa himself apparently on trumpet and crashing cymbals lending the performance of "Jingle Bells" special panache...
...Times' announcements, while useful for discouraging bigamists, perform other functions. A brisk exegesis, like a successful archeological dig, yields a wealth of information about American culture. The announcements trumpet the spawning and proliferation of a new class, the meritocracy, which journalist Nicholas Lemann defines as "a national personnel system that uses higher education to sort and slot a substantial portion of the population...