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...does play host to a small, surprisingly busy jazz scene and a newly launched international jazz festival. It's against this homespun backdrop that the album Raw Jazz emerges, with a kind of indomitable energy that's entirely fitting for the place in which it was born. Introducing Singaporean vocalist Hanjin Tan, a producer and composer of Cantonese pop by day, this low-frills, high-moxie album is a collection of 11 jazz standards, each recorded in a single take along with the help of local jazz luminaries Skip Moy on guitar, Paul Candelaria on bass and Jason Cheng...
...work,” King says. “We’ve been playing it live every night, and it’s really fun to add that into our original music and some of the rock pieces.”The Bad Plus also experimented with a vocalist, Wendy Lewis, in their most recent album. “It’s part of the jazz tradition to mess with instrumentation,” King says. “So we thought, why don’t we go all the way and get a vocalist...
...Commonsense of Things,” where a pretty melody complements a theme, as stated in the title, that is the album’s one departure from the typical concerns of the genre. Prettiest of all is “True and False,” where guest vocalist Darbie Nowatka successfully captures the sweet vulnerability that Rudder cannot. These pleasant interludes are the highlights of what is, unquestionably, a mediocre album. “Grrr…” suffers both from its lack of ambition and its dreary songwriting. Their last effort, “Broken...
...Rockus. In an interview before their performance, band members described themselves as “pirate gypsy rock.” There was also talk of pant-less practice jams in dorm halls. This jocular attitude translated into a fun performance that was classic punk rock. Fortran was last. Vocalist Carrie McDonough added a distinctive voice to their music, and even kept a facetious conversation with the audience between sets. Before their performance, the drummer, who identified himself simply as Okie, described the band’s music as “petrified rock.” Their music...
...plans. Described by guitarist John J. “Jay” Costa, Jr. ’09 as “rock with folk and jazz pretty heavily intertwined,” the quartet has garnered a solid fan base of Harvard students and Bostonians alike. Costa and vocalist R. Derek Wetzel ’10 started jamming together while attending Boston College High School. The duo continued their artistic pursuits at Harvard, and were eventually joined by drummer Peter Simonelli, a student at the Art Institute of Boston, and bassist Mike Leitzel. Stealth Foxx has performed...