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...Trumpet competition was somewhere here. Golden Globes was somewhere here. David di Donatello award in Italy was somewhere here. And then there’s a huge gap to the Harvard Pudding. I can’t even reach...
...school play as] Santa Claus in the second grade was here,” he commented, placing his hand low above the table. “Winning a gymnastics sectional medal was up here,” he said, moving his hand up a level. “Trumpet competition was somewhere here. Golden Globes was somewhere here. David di Donatello award in Italy was somewhere here. And then there’s a huge gap to the Harvard Pudding. I can’t even reach...
...with the uncensored delight of a lover and practitioner of music. Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson did not begin her life expecting to have such a prodigious title, or indeed with any expectations about a life in academia. Monson loved music and was playing the trumpet by age ten, though her youthful training did not always teach the most hopeful lessons. She reflects ruefully, “I was pretty good, but when you play the trumpet, you quickly learn that the masterworks of Western music are not for the trumpet.” Monson soon...
...successful and thoroughly enjoyable album. The vocal harmonies of Pittman and Lucy Brain--the two trade off as lead singers--are striking. Brain's voice in particular has a beautiful stand-out quality, shown off on the melancholy Without Your Love." Clean, melodious guitars carry the album, while piano, trumpet, and the use of unconventional time signatures (including, yes, 5/4,) create a sophisticated feel. (Pittman cites British folk rockers Fairport Convention as the single biggest influence on this album.) Young and Sexy sound poppy and full of energy, even on the mellow tracks which are their strongest...
...over the course of the set. The moody but irresistibly melodic pop of “Cruel” blended into the gradually-building rocker “Jesus and Tequila,” which set many heads to rhythmic nodding, before the song erupted in wonderfully-restrained dissonance. Trumpets wailed over Burns’ distorted guitar as he hammered out a passionate, uonison-bend heavy solo. The band quickly followed with a commendable rendition of Love’s “Alone Again Or,” with bouncy chords and exuberant trumpets exciting the crowd, who eagerly...