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...recent Monday night at Charlie's Tap Jazz Club in Central Square, notes of Miles Davis filtered through the dark club onto the street. In the middle of a smoky haze, the keyboardist sweated, the saxaphonist swayed and the drummer bobbed his head in time with the music...
...about evenly between songs from the new album and the older, effervescent singles. Lead singer Nina Persson, fetchingly attired in black tanktop and leather pants, delivered the band's tongue-in-cheek takes on modern love with charming, faux naivete. Flanked on either side by guitarist Peter Svensson and keyboardist Lars-Olaf Johnasson, The Cardigans were an interesting triptych to watch: Svensson dancing about his red guitar, Persson doing her catwoman-thing with the mic stand and Johansson good-humoredly adding the dark swatches of soundscape...
...Their latest album The Story of the Ghost is made up mostly of their jam sessions. Giving their music a slightly less polished but much more heartfelt edge, their extended jam sessions have improved over the years as the connection among band members has strengthened. Guitarist Trey Anastasio and keyboardist Page McConnell were especially in synch the weekend after Thanksgiving, working off of each other to increase the enthusiasm of a crowd that was pumped enough to riot the moment that the band stepped on stage...
...Cardigans. Sveningsson explained: "We wanted to become a pop band; [Peter and I] played in individual hard rock bands back in the '80s. We met because we needed someone new to play with. Peter is still in that scene, but I have found other things to listen to." Keyboardist Johansson had a more pithy account of new, harder Cardigans: "We're back, and we're loud...
...Other Ones," a band that, while not the Dead, is named after a Dead song and performs material from the Dead catalog. Weir, for his part, was eager to play the old Dead songs again but reluctant to tour under the Grateful Dead name. Says Weir: "Without Pigpen [keyboardist Ron McKernan, a band member who died in 1973], without Jerry, this band has taken a few too many hits to be called the Grateful Dead. It doesn't look too good when I see other bands out touring with one or two original members and the rest hired 30 years...