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...came from," he recalls. "The generosity of the people and the mobility of society here are very appealing. There is a resiliency that was missing in the U.K." Reggie's customers are sufficiently resilient to applaud his occasional recitals of Kipling, delivered in a baritone over the Bass...
...heavy electronic sound and beat. Miles Davis, 52, who created the "cool" bop sound back in the late '40s, with its relaxed delivery and complex harmonies, also fashioned the first fusion in 1970 with his revolutionary Bitches Brew album. It retained jazz soloing but incorporated electric bass and guitar and a Rhodes electric piano. The result sounded mellow, upbeat and had a heavier rhythm than jazz, and it proved a phenomenal bestseller (600,000, compared with sales of 25,000-30,000 for a popular, mainstream jazz album...
...themes that give it direction. For 50 minutes, Taylor-hallmark shades and knit cap in place-and his sidemen wrapped Carnegie Hall in a solid sheet of sound, each member of the group swapping and developing ideas from the others. A frenzied, virtuoso performer, Taylor roiled tempests on the bass of the piano, then modulated into short phrases and lyrical passages that contained echoes of Bartók and Debussy...
This is kind of a quiet weekend for rock music in Beantown and environs. But if you really need your dose of spine-crunching bass and screaming, indecipherable lyrics, you'd do well to catch the Ramones at the Paradise (967 Comm Ave, Boston), Friday through Sunday at 9. New wave and all that, y'know? Actually, the Ramones, authors of that disgusting hit single "Rockaway Beach," are the kind of group that gives some of the more serious New Wave artists a bad name. Avoid, unless you want to see teenagers no more talented than...
...named Sugar Blue plays as classy a harp as you've ever heard), but "Miss You" is not much like the rest of the album at all. This is not to downgrade "Miss You" beyond reason. It is technically an excellent song led by Bill Wyman's trendy bass work and Charlie Watt's as ever tight drumming. It just doesn't hit the heart the way some of the other stuff does...