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CHARLIE PARKER IS ONE BIRD you can't catch. Parker, who died in 1955, was a jazz innovator, a sax master, a wildly talented instrumentalist who could improvise his way through songs with an easy daring and offhand profundity. Saxophonists who pay too literal tribute to Bird's work miss its spark and point--its emotionality is linked to its originality...
That won't happen with Groove Theory. The New York City-based alternative R.-and-B. duo, composed of producer-instrumentalist Bryce Wilson and singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux, have a hit (their sweetly insinuative single Tell Me has sold more than half a million copies), and, happily, the rest of their debut CD, titled simply Groove Theory (Epic), amply lives up to that first smash...
...really want to go back to the '70s? To gas shortages and Watergate, to blaxploitation movies and big lapels, to Charlie's Angels and the Ford Administration? Not really. What makes soul singer-producer-instrumentalist D'Angelo's new album, Brown Sugar, so winning is that he doesn't so much take the listener back to the '70s as update the musical spirit of that time for '90s listeners. His songs have the seductive textures of the R.-and-B. hits of the '70s, evoking Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers, but D'Angelo's style is spare and restrained...
...Harvard Lampoon, a semisecret social organization which occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine, yesterday named Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry "String Instrumentalist of the Century...
Though the players' differing styles failed to coalesce in the Brahms, for the most part the Quartet managed to present a unique approach synthesized from the disparate strengths of its members. The voices of each instrumentalist, beautiful and intriguing on their own, when conjoined showed the Mendelssohn String Quartet as one of the best...