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...band easily settled in with the audience while effortlessly building up to the exciting “Johnny’s Landing.” At the outset of this number, Corea percussively tapped metallic synth sounds in offbeat rhythms to Weckl’s elaborate drum beat. The tune developed gracefully with a catchy bass line and calypso guitar accents. Gambale, Marienthal and Weckl played solos showing exquisite touch and truly unfathomable technical prowess...
...even visit a designated website with 118 preprogrammed sounds ranging from instruments to machine-gun fire. It’s a shame that only 50 seconds of your song will be transferred to the clock, but the ease of transfer means you can wake up to a different tune each...
...same: In Africa this Christmas, "the only water flowing/ Is the bitter sting of tears." Still. At the risk of appearing churlish and meanspirited in this festive season, I'm not sure re-recording the song is a big help. Band Aid has been criticized before for its cheesy tune, and Do They Know It's Christmas? may not be the right question asked of Muslims in Sudan. But my gripe is about the way the song reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them...
...origins, its shape, its moods. He wants to view it from every angle--melody, harmony, lyrics, verse. He even wants to hear about its romantic history--what other improvisers have done with it. When he sits down to play, the result is an embrace, an act of possession. The tune rises, falls, disappears and resurfaces in new forms as Charlap ranges over the keyboard with nimble, crisply swinging lines, subtly layered textures, dense chords and spiky interjections. But no matter how imaginative or surprising his take on a song is, he invariably zeroes in on its essence. When he finds...
...hate to be dissed; treat them with respect, and they will not reflexively refuse what you want them to do. The French have a phrase for it: It's the tone that makes the music. Those of us who know you are confident that you can carry an American tune without offending the ears of those whose help you need across the board, from dollar stability to a happy outcome in the greater Middle East. The next time something like the Kyoto Protocol comes around, don't just dismiss European concerns with a haughty gesture. Instead, argue the American case...