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Bellson asked the crowded but enrapt audience, packed like sardines into the Blue Note's minuscule table space, to choose the last tune. When a deadlock ensued, Bellson decreed that a hybrid known as "Cherokee-Cottontail" would be played. "This one features our first-chair percussionist," Bellson kidded. The blend of the traditional jazz standard and one of Ellington's most famous melodies held many treasures in store. The quintet began with "Cherokee" and then broke into choruses of "Cottontail." Throughout the second section, Swartz strummed along powerfully with something akin to religious fervor...
...songwriter has changed course again with David Byrne, an album that resurrects -- and redefines -- the skittering, stripped-down sound of the early Talking Heads. Backed by a nimble rock trio that includes percussionist Mauro Refosco on vibes and marimba, Byrne sings typically off-kilter vocals, yodeling and crooning, moving from anxious whispers to ululations of unfettered elation. The jerky, shifting beats and shimmering guitars evoke the buoyant mood of Talking Heads classics like Once in a Lifetime...
...four members of the cast have strong stage experience behind them and deliver rousing renditions of Finn's score. Accompanied solely by percussionist Paula Rich and pianist Gerald Moshell, the cast's collective performance stand up to the demands of musical theater for a dynamic multiplicity of talents. Moshell, too, is the embodiment of a multiplicity of talents--playing piano is the least of his contributions to "In Trousers." Moshell holds full production and direction responsibilities for the play's Boston run, as he did when he staged the first-ever production of the entire trilogy of "Marvin musicals" last...
Lincoln soon began to make a name for herself. In 1957 she fell in love with Max Roach, the great bebop percussionist, whom she married five years later. The civil rights movement was gathering momentum, and Lincoln got swept along in it. She was one of the first black women to wear her hair in a natural, Afro style, and her music underwent a similar transformation. In 1960 she sang on Roach's Freedom Now Suite, an urgent blast against America's homegrown version of apartheid. She also starred in Nothing But a Man, a poignant 1962 film about...
...well, they'd probably just stare at each other. But it's conceivable that the composer and the pop mogul might collaborate on a 73-minute 12-second postmodern song cycle you could dance or dream to. That's the symphonic rock album Moodfood, by the British duo MOODSWINGS (percussionist J.F.T. Hood and producer Grant Showbiz). The set punctuates its disco-liturgical luxuriance with ethereal vocals by Chrissie Hynde and a pulsar guitar solo by Jeff Beck. Mixing rap and classical and everything in between -- and then remixing it to suggest a Top 40 radio show beamed from Mars -- Moodfood...