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Shifting between full rhythm sections and just bass and drums throughout the album, Turner waxes introspective with the breathy tone and plodding rhythm of the standard "Stardust." The album would be easily dismissible were it not for Turner's flights of interpretational fancy, which soar to great melodic heights yet still maintain the melancholia inherent to many tracks. On "I Loves You Porgy," he conjures simple sentimentality in a lush landscape of tender phrasing and introspective tones. Granted, not every single aspect of Ballad Sessions works. Turner's group doesn't gel when he attempts to change pace with Latin...
...When a song is a standard, it can reproduce itself from one of its constituent parts. If you recite the words you will hear the melody." Everett imagines a group called the Midrash Jazz Quartet performing Old Testament-style exegeses on such works as Me and My Shadow and Stardust...
Role-playing has a long history in pop music. In the 1950s, a Beaumont, Texas, deejay named J.P. Richardson stepped into his on-air radio persona, the Big Bopper, and scored a hit single, Chantilly Lace. And in the 1970s, David Bowie took on the role of Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly rock-'n'-roller. Brooks makes it clear he's just playing a role, not living it or attempting some full Andy Kaufmanesque submersion. He may have recorded a rock CD, but he makes no claims that he's a rocker. "I'm a country artist," he says, "and very...
...bully try to stick his finger in my chest/Try to tell me, tell me he's the best/But I don't really give a good goddamn cause/ I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well.../Next motherf_____ gonna get my metal/...Pow pow pow." Not quite Stardust...
...near future. What I loved in 1998 was the emergence of the French disco house genre with a retro sound that explored house music's roots and brought back a lot of the element of fun, including Daft Punk's Homework album and the song of last summer, Stardust's "Music Sounds better With You." It continued this year with Cassius's 1999, an excellent disco cut-up pastiche work, and I'm hoping for more quality Gallic crossovers. I also think the stunning new Armand van Helden and Basement Jaxx albums (2 Future 4 U and Remedy respectively), with...