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给您带来的数字30！

只是有许多事情需要爱关于大3-0。 该
数量有一定的意义，在圣经排序，我们已经被告知。
而且，更重要的是，它的轨道上有多少“白色的
专辑。“

这是一个由披头士乐队，一组，您希望有没有光盘
困惑与罗素门前另一个同样多产乐队
克劳：30非常奇怪的咕噜专辑富茨。

在体育运动中，乔丹决定玩伯明翰
男爵在30岁。 名人堂的一垒手奥兰多‧西佩达
穿着30号在他16年的职业生涯。

虽然他是一个数字更著名的四位数字更高，
诺兰莱恩穿的天使30。 而对于几个你谁看
曲棍球：是的，我们都知道这个数字可以在背面找到
鬼子守门员马丁布洛德尔。

第三也是立柱史前巨石阵，长度数
在三十年的战争和对锌的原子数目。 美国
社会活动家杰里鲁宾曾经警告，“不要相信任何人了
30。“

与此相关的，一个美国参议员的最低年龄为30。

哦，这是谁的足球运动员人数已
被捕以来城市迈耶接手。 肮脏的30。

脏时，前苏联（-10）将涵盖的传播，因为这
周末，因为：

首先，它的迈阿密热火队的三巨头，现在它的前苏联。

什么时候会停止泰勒？ 您的诀窍就讨厌的东西
是真的很伤心。 我痛苦地看到你这个样子。

之后掀起的塞米诺尔上周Sooners，你
诚实地认为，杨百翰大学将进入理货，甚至出现
接近使其成为一个对前苏联的游戏？

我知道你有没有住在佛罗里达州的一生，但学校
从这种状态只比来自犹他州的学校更好。 只要
在上个赛季的交锋看两队之间的时
塞米诺尔赢得58-24。

你应该了解历史，相当不错。 毕竟，你是
在名为“早期共和国”一类的登记 - 无论是
手段。

- 蒋尚义

该stormin的杨百翰大学（10）摩门教徒，将为约瑟夫史密斯风格
殴打是因为：

蒋尚义的头脑是不对的，连他的东西会
欣然承认。 这里的一些心里话：他晚上在花间
办公室和教室里的那些日子，蒋介石限制为四个
每天晚上睡几个小时。 尽管研究谷歌，他一个人
只需键入“基斯”。

当有人问他写一篇文章周四晚上，他
乞求怜悯，他不能解释字符串的想法，更
较少的句子，在一起。

现在，他忘了他在那里长大。 他拿起反对
'猎犬最后一周，现在他的欢呼的'诺尔斯。 什么
大吉列尔莫爸爸说什么？

蒋介石是一个烂摊子。 但要真正理解他的精神状态，
必须认识到这是一个男人谁想到这将是确定采取
绰号“斯莱特”因为他的首字母排列的第一
他最喜欢的名字“贝尔所救”字。

蒋介石的摔跤技术是有点怀疑，但他在
至少得到教训后，所有这些萨尔萨舞蹈技巧。

- 泰勒杰特

现在到挑选！

处于了领先的一顶13-6纪录
alligatorSports助理编辑泰勒：“如果我住后面的Chipotle
我会去疯狂“杰特，谁开始后，兴奋地喘气
实现背后有高校公寓的Chipotle
夫。 作为一个6尺5金发的白人男性，他是最远
事情被墨西哥人。 但是，这并不能阻止他从订货
这些卷饼碗。

并列第一是盖恩斯维尔Sun的爱德华“那家伙的热点，
那家伙不是，没有同性恋“阿舍夫，其最近从分配
孙火花对他的人生选择的好奇心。 他有一个女朋友，
但他的消费方式，通过美国证券交易委员会更多的时间滚动照片
画廊。 我们得到它。 这是你的工作，为瑞安马莱的目光
眼睛。 无论如何，爱德华。

领先一11-8纪录，第三三男子编织是
鳄鱼足球作家凯尔“如果她不给我什么我想要的，
我能看到自己不小心多线“Maistri步进，
谁确定了克里斯雷尼的最近发生的问题。 你们是
，良好的人就是误解。 但是，女士们，你应该
如果你叫凯尔文午夜后的警察。

在第三的还有鳄鱼足球作家迈克“哦，等等，我
一直有“麦考尔，谁最初对他的挣扎”指南
西雅图“的演讲课前演讲中回忆，他花了
整个夏天覆盖的海员。 “这照片，右边
在那里，是我的...哦！ 我的旧公寓。 对不起。“

而完成这项编织是Gatorbait.net的基斯“不要告诉
我信息，我可以不适合在140个字符“尼布尔，他可能会退出谁
工作，独立工作的基斯尼布尔的Twitter帐户。
按照他的@ igetscoops4days。 不用说，他的天敌
以防守协调员Teryl奥斯汀，谁所谓社会
网络“哑巴”。

开始用的10-9记录在第六届第二次三方的结合
是迈阿密先驱报的乔“我一直对你我的眼睛”古德曼，谁
城市与吓坏了他的副业行为最后一个问题
一周。 Meyer的回应：“我很欣赏你在看我。 这是一种
奇怪的，要对你诚实。“

在第六的还有alligatorSports编辑安东尼：“我可以请
有一些巧克力牛奶“蒋介石，他的平静的声音，与配对
孩子气的要求，使大家认为他的工作人员，他们通过了一项
孤儿。 当这种恐惧成长册“的爱心树”和“如果你
给老鼠一个Cookie“在办公室里萌生了。

和并列第六（在死驴最后的地方，但真的，）与一
行（但是，真的，小便穷人）10-9纪录是FightinGators.com的
科迪“证交会播放”琼斯的爱，为高校体育的圣经
带已经变成了一维采访了他。 交谈
一大一新生？ 因此，如何激发你玩美国证券交易委员会即将开始？ 说
一名高级？ 你有什么告诉美国证券交易委员会发挥的新生？

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由Brian发表凯莉

发表于1天前

布莱恩邓恩是关于人生的路上钝。

“这是艰难的。”

约11个民间歌曲的萨德伯里实验音乐家的新专辑，检查辐射的一半，当他写了巡回演出。

他亦于飞机和巴士车及酒店的轨道。 波士顿酒吧写当他在芝加哥。 开幕曲目，听我自己模具，拉伸一个月后，来到了离家的时候，唐恩自己了。

“有一种孤独，”他说，在从镍市最近的电话采访。

鼓手弥敦道Lawr（该牛头怪）加入了一个住在审视辐射地板在2009年录制他一周。 他们的音乐作出不润色的。

“你可以设置槽得很顺利，”邓恩说。 “有三个或四分钟的时刻，特别是与Nathan玩，他只是找到了口袋这么好，你就可以真正锁定的节奏。

“到锁定的节奏改变了你唱的东西。 它改变了你表达的线条。 它使你对自己在做什么兴奋。“

这张专辑共由Dave麦金农（Fembots）制作。

麦金农时，他将加入邓恩次Loplops星期六。

“你可以把他带来任何东西，我们两个人之间的，我们可以很快把它新的自旋，是生产的新途径，”邓恩说。

我们开始为轨道吹嘘为不同层次的反馈进化“民间小调”。 索尼克此外，通过麦金农推，帮助建立“一种新的气氛”与音乐。

“需要有一些潜在的混乱，反映什么样的打算在自己的歌曲了，”邓恩说。

“它确实有助于推动他们前进。 这使得它很有趣，听取了。 这张专辑的时候非常奇怪，你会听到这个奇怪的噪音或低音有点古怪。 我们正在努力扭转乾坤。“

光盘上的其他主礼嘉宾包括前公牛队友马克褐变和瑞安主教。

检查的辐射是唐恩的首张个人努力。 较早尝试，暂称为哈希国家，没有工作在2006年。

“我们录音，但我们没有得到非常有成效，”邓恩说。 “这只是没有脱落的方式我想它。”

同月全明星与牛房让他忙碌，远离演播室到2009年。 这就是为什么他是“痒”，记录他的专辑。 邓恩2011年的日历已经填满，包括三月海外日期。 八月下旬，他录制为明年秋季挂一后续工作12个新的歌曲。

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九月 17

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九月 18

*中途在加拿大Bushplane遗产中心。 下午2:30;

*布莱恩邓恩乐队与大轮和在Loplops辐条;

*铝木和林赛与Brian特朗布莱普格高达休息室下装;

*皮埃尔Schryer和朋友们慈善音乐会，以支持旧市政厅音乐会。 晚上八时，希尔顿海滩举行。

九月 19

*位于洙在Sault科技教育和NIC儿童剧场表演。 玛丽，密歇根州10元。 12岁以下儿童5元。 （906）632-1930。

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*赫德利在Essar的中心。

九月 23

*西蒙顿高达休息室墙壁;

在苏必利尔湖州立大学杰夫丹尼尔斯。

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*让保底DeRoover高达休息室;

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九月 25

*中途在马可尼休息室。 晚上9点;

*带让保德在Loplops Roover审计长;

* Sault交响乐团在洙在Sault科技教育剧院管弦乐万花筒。 玛丽，密歇根州下午8时三二美元成年人。 12元的学生。

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onthetown@saultstar.com或邮寄到：邮政信箱460，Sault科技教育。 玛丽，安大略省。 P6A 5M5。

海伍德银行是在一个独特的一类音乐家。

音乐家通常不会裂口鼓上烤面包机独奏。

银行，由Stuart米切尔的特点，已创造了约从胰腺不等雨刷主题朗朗上口的曲调。

他总是在他生命的音符，部分是因为他的母亲是一个“挫折大乐队的歌手。”他开始在8岁唱歌，开始写自己的曲调和演奏岁十四年吉他。 然而，这是从传说中的讽刺汤姆莱勒是向他介绍了一个愚蠢的讽刺和歌词世界旧的像册。

“他有一种幽默感扭曲感，我就这样说，”在接受电话采访银行在一个周末的演出今天在奥格登和周六提前。 “但是，当时的想法是写一个具有颠覆性的抒情漂亮的旋律，所以一些人最终哼着曲调，然后他们意识到这一点有关尘螨的。”

其中的主题和人物非常奇怪专辑，使他成为文化标志。 他的音乐是精选的老博士Demento广播节目和流行严重的国家早晨广播节目“鲍勃和汤姆展”。

他的歌曲列表吹嘘几十清洁和高飞音乐剧。

“每当我在'鲍勃和汤姆是，”我试着写了这个节目是一首歌曲，“班克斯说。 “他们在印第安纳波利斯，这是从我家275英里。 我是左撇子，所以我可以在车上玩吉他。 所以我可以驾驶我的膝盖和弥补一首歌曲。 我很膝盖司机。“

是啊，'干杯'

对银行，最流行的歌曲一开始建立在一个救世军。 他发现一个烤面包机，并认为这可能是不错的，实际上把它在舞台上为观众敬酒。

“当我第一次开始被海伍德，表演艺术是一个大事情，”班克斯说。 “因此，人们会做的只是一些非常奇怪的事情在舞台上专辑。”

他在等待表演前在后台州布朗克斯的一个喜剧俱乐部，他的舞台框非常奇怪albumities他身边，当他开始拍打节奏上的烤面包机。 接下来，他需要的歌词 - 这从他的妻子走了进来。

“我有一个非常独特的妻子。 有人说她是不是这个世界，“班克斯说。 “我记得她有一次说，'我不能等待去睡觉，所以我明天可以起来有一些面包。' “

于是，他开始了歌唱环顾世界，从东海岸到西海岸“烤面包机打/人总是说你最喜欢/我不想吹牛，我不想吹牛/我总是告诉他们，我喜欢烤面包“在布朗克斯的阶段。

“观众喜爱的，然后他们讨厌一切我之后一样，”银行说。 “我想，'噢，也许我应该提出这个远到表演。' “

银行后来进行的歌曲“鲍勃和汤姆”和“干杯”一炮打响 - 与年轻人口，特别是。

“如果你去YouTube上，有可能是300谁做了这首歌曲的版本和10姊说这是一个海伍德银行歌曲的孩子。 另四成说这是一个'鲍勃和汤姆的歌曲，怪异的铝（Yankovic的）获取他们的休息，“班克斯说。

Starmakers

在“鲍勃和汤姆”广播节目让他多年来为他的音乐出口，以及生产五为他的专辑。 该节目于1995年进入联合，银行说，这是“最佳时机”的观众成为他重新认识正如他的职业生涯停滞不前。

该广播节目已成为国内外知名的职业发射。

“不只是我，但（供）吨的喜剧演员，他们喜欢让人们一腿，促进新的人才守护神了，”班克斯说。

考虑到迈克尔Formanek情况。 贝斯手提出从他的家乡北加州在1978年到纽约的20岁。 在今后23年中，他记录和/或与弗雷德赫希劳特帕，弗雷迪哈伯德，乌里坚，加里托马斯，大卫巴罗，添伯尔尼，李Konitz，切特贝克和马蒂埃利希喜欢推出了五受欢迎相册下参观自己的名字。 到2001年，虽然，他已经厌倦了伴奏者的始终起绒或音乐会熙跑步机。 他接受在巴尔的摩，在新成立的爵士乐部门兼职皮博迪音乐学院在教学岗位，而当工作于2003年成为全职，他举家搬到了到陶森，一内到的，环城高速的郊区。 Formanek很快发现，他不仅参加一个学术机构，也是本地乐坛，更小，低于纽约，但与它自己的特点和资产一庆祝。

Formanek很快就在当地的场地经常存在。 他是一个有盐和-胡椒山羊胡子，戴着深度近视眼镜，不守规矩的棕色头发，长宽他的大腹人大熊直立架。 他用他的牛头人躯干搏斗了强劲的，有节奏地发明的短语，需求相当的重视，他的乐器的乐队，无论与来访的新电影，像伯尔尼和Ehrlich或如David Murray的钢琴家拉斐特吉尔克里斯特或萨克斯约翰迪尔克巴尔的摩的球员纽约朋友。 当乔治Garzone 2006年12月来到巴尔的摩，例如，萨克斯并没有带来自己的乐队，而是要求Formanek组建一个小组。 贝斯手偷了他的老伙计曼哈顿戴夫巴罗，吹鼓手和同事在附近的陶森大学学术移民;吉尔克里斯特;萨克斯格雷格汤姆金斯从吉尔克里斯特的本地乐队，新火山;和鼓手丹马塞勒斯，Formanek的在Peabody学生。

这六个音乐家爬上陡长楼梯到死Musik的上方，一个位于市中心的唱片店二楼的表演空间。 里面的空间有15英尺高的天花板，一个金发碧眼的木材和80级粉红色和白色条纹的扶手椅。 的感觉是一个比一个酒吧间欧洲爵士乐俱乐部沙龙多，但许多的椅子被Formanek的和巴罗的学生填补。 这些本科生每次都能听到两位老师曾试图进行长期在六重奏的设置应用于所有学期动荡的行动点。 他们听见这一切是对节奏的平等成员，乐队部分，但这里是Formanek放样线，与新的方向推他的空间的角。 学生们抄下来了建设专题材料即兴出来的概念，但在这里都是随心所欲的在他们的头Garzone独奏和巴罗回收片段。 学生们吸收了集体即兴创作理论中，每个音乐家听其它玩家和相应的反应，但在这里是长条地方吉尔克里斯特会分散在一个有新的时间划分新的音乐方向，然后几个合唱团后马塞勒斯将这样做。

“我带来了乔治到皮博迪与学生做一个星期五的车间大乐队及演唱会，”Formanek回忆说，“那是很酷。 我们做任何事情一样，我们尽量做到尽可能真实的，但它仍然是一个学校演出。 For me, it was important to follow that up that Friday show with a Saturday gig where George could blow with a small group of his peers in a real venue. It was good for the students to grasp the full possibilities of what they'd experienced the night before. I think they really got it: 'Wow, this is not just playing a 32-bar solo in a big-band arrangement; this is really developing a theme and interacting with all the other musicians.'”

Musik的显示芯片的安要么没有皮博迪或陶森大学的官方连接，但它也不会被可能的，如果这些学校没有雇用Formanek和巴罗。 但不仅没有从本地乐坛的学校受益;学校也从当地现场受惠。 在大学课程，以爵士乐可以给你更多的理论和历史，更有效更比任何谈话或后台排练，打破讲故事数量。 但目前还没有转化为行动之前，一个陌生的支付由经验丰富的专业人员带领乐队的观众，知识的替代品。 Formanek坚信，最好的爵士乐教育要包括，课堂和俱乐部，理论和实践，他不能做，如果他没有死一个都皮博迪和Musik的。

“我记得当我开始与戴夫利伯曼玩耍时我18岁，”Formanek回忆道。 “突然，我在一个完全不同的联赛的时候，被要求打，我从来没有听说过polychords。 我也喜欢有一个人坐下来，向我解释。 这就是爵士乐教育不能很好：它给学生的理论，历史和技术，因为它有足够的资源和教师提供有效的信息。 和效率是重要的，因为有那么多的爵士乐音乐家吸收这些天，更多的精彩节目，越临近，更多的历史，如何经营一家唱片公司或网站。 但是，所有这些信息是有限的价值，如果你不知道如何应用它的演奏台。 如果你在爵士乐你的学位，去你的第一场演出和领导人说，'玩一举目无亲介绍，'或'后的头，我们将进入自由即兴，'或'我们可以一起玩这个7 / 4，'你不想说，'好吧，他们没有在学校教我们。' 如果孩子是什么时候到皮博迪，花了很多钱，我想给他们真正的交易，因此他们准备当他们到达第一次演出。“

Peabody's jazz department is still relatively new; it's not yet a decade old, and even today the only full-time faculty are Formanek and Department Chairman Gary Thomas. Such newness can be both an advantage and disadvantage. It provides a clean slate where Formanek can pursue his ideas about combining theory and practice. But the program's lack of history and alumni-turned-stars also makes it tough to get funding, applications and recognition. “There's more room at a new program to try out different ways of teaching jazz,” Formanek explains. “Gary's been very good about hiring faculty with different strengths and letting them emphasize those strengths rather than making them conform to a set way of doing things. It's more like a democratic jazz combo than a jazz orchestra where the bandleader sets the rules.

“As a result,” he continues, “students who come through the program are exposed to a lot of different styles of teaching and styles of jazz, unlike some programs that emphasize one particular approach. The challenge, though, is getting the word out to the rest of the world that Peabody is a strong program and that Baltimore is a cool city for jazz. I think students get that when they come here, but that's not something someone is going to figure out as a high school student in Portland, Oregon.”

Dave Ballou has done a good deal to promote Baltimore's jazz stature; this past December, for instance, Towson University presented John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet as part of the drummer's week-long residency. Ballou shares Formanek's sentiments about how jazz education should balance the classroom and the bandstand. “It's a real interesting time in jazz education,” he explains, “because most students realize there's a gap between traditional jazz education and what actually happens at a gig. The old, informal system of jazz education—where you learned by sitting in at jam sessions and talking to older musicians—often left gaps in your knowledge. Schools are real good at filling in those gaps, but they're weak on the practical experience that the old system was so good at. One of the ways to bridge the two is to push students to make decisions in real playing situations rather than giving them tests where there are right and wrong answers. When I get calls for student musicians, for example, I'll ask one of the more responsible kids to be the bandleader and have them hire and run the band and handle the money. I keep an eye on it to make sure things don't fall apart, but it's worked pretty well so far.”

One of the theories that Formanek emphasizes to his students is the complicated relationship between composition and improvisation in jazz. On Oct. 12 his students will be able to hear their teacher put that theory into action on his first album as a leader in a dozen years: The Rub and Spare Change , his debut for the acclaimed ECM label. The disc features his New York quartet (alto saxophonist Tim Berne, pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver) rather than his Baltimore quartet (Ballou, Dierker and drummer Will Redman), but the approach is the same. A lifelong admirer of composers such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sam Rivers, Formanek wants to write more than a short head that leads to a series of solos that may or may not have much to do with the opening theme; he wants to write music that informs and channels the improvisation. On the other hand, he doesn't want the music to be so structured that it eliminates the possibility of surprise. It's a tricky balance to strike, but Formanek nails it on his new record.

“It's one thing to improvise freely,” Formanek says, “but it's another to have music that generates ideas and shapes the improvisation. That's what I'm interested in: improvisation that develops an idea for a long time. Musicians will often be throwing ideas out there to see what will stick, but one of the signs of mature improvisers is the ability to stay with an idea and not bale when something else comes along; instead they incorporate that something else into the original idea. I'ma bass player and I tend to approach things rhythmically because that's the way I think. I'm interested in the way subdivisions of time—triplets or 16th notes—work against a slower, implied groove. It's nice when a band keeps that groove in mind all the way through a piece. That doesn't mean they keep playing the same thing, but that they will play all the different aspects of that groove. The band on this record can do that. They play the composed music like it was improvised and they improvise like they were composing.”

You can hear what he means on the new album's key piece, the 17-minute “Tonal Suite,” cobbled together from three earlier unrecorded tunes. It begins with a muscular descending line from the bass, and for the first 75 seconds the quartet traverses a tricky notated section where each musician plays a slightly altered version of that motif—adding or displacing notes—but fitting it all together like a puzzle. The shift into collective improvisation is subtle; the alterations become more pronounced but the theme is always implied. As the band nears the five-minute mark, a crescendo dwindles away, creating room for Formanek to introduce his second theme, a different descending line with a pause and leap at the end. Again a tightly wound notated section gradually unravels into improvisation, but the dangling strands are still audible, especially in Berne's melancholy lower-register meanderings.

There aren't solos and comping in the traditional sense; it's more that one voice steps forward for a while from the collective improvisation and then steps back again. Around the 11-minute mark, the meditative tempo begins to quicken as if building toward the next notated section at the 13-minute mark. That introduces a jittery, rambunctious theme that will inform the next stretch of improvisation, especially Taborn's stop-and-go bursts of 16th notes. Finally all the strands are woven together again for a jaunty march at the end. What's exciting about the piece is the way the written material—which traces an emotional arc from agitated to regretful to renewed—provides a common topic for musical conversation. It's that topic that makes it a four-way discussion and not just four monologues.

“In this music,” Formanek explains, “it's more important to know where you're going than where you are. If I know at some point I have to play this bassline at this tempo, I try to develop a logical improvisation that will get me there. When I compose a piece like 'Tonal Suite,' I want it to start here and go there, so I have to trust that the musicians will respect that. I don't say, 'Tim will solo at the 48th bar,' but I will say, 'It's going to start as a collective with Craig playing eighth notes while Gerald and I play dotted quarters and then it will break down into improvisation. It will come back together for a middle section with an implied Motown groove, then it will break down again. The last part starts slow in five then starts to groove in seven.' pretty odd album time signatures are not something I use to be hip; that's just the way I hear time. After I've invented a line, I go back and count it, and it's always a five or seven. Maybe I have arrhythmia of the heart.”

“If you have notated music and then just go ahead and play whatever you want,” Berne asks, “what's the point of having the notated music in the first place? I'm interested in connecting the dots in Mike's music, in discovering its logic, so I can take advantage of that when I improvise. Playing with Mike requires a certain selflessness, where you don't care about getting applause for yourself. I don't even think of solos and comping, or of frontline and rhythm section. I think of us as four strong opinions each having his say. Mike gets to put his stamp on the group with his compositions, but then he's smart enough to hire good musicians and let them run with it.”

“If I'm writing for improvisers,” Formanek adds, “I don't want to dictate what they do. If I want to hear everything the way I hear it, I'll write for a big band or classical group; I'll write every note and articulation. That can be exciting but not as exciting as writing for improvisers. You hire musicians like Tim, Craig and Gerald because they will change what you give them and make something new out of it. But even my pieces for improvisers usually have a beginning, middle and end, and the drama depends on all three happening.”

The quartet played its first show at the Stone on Manhattan's Lower East Side in August 2008, but Formanek had been playing with Berne for 20 years and with Taborn and Cleaver for roughly 10 years apiece. “The Stone was started by John Zorn as a musician-run club,” Formanek explains. “It's not much bigger than my living room; it's hot and tight, like a pressure cooker. That was a terrific gig. All the things happened that you can never plan, because there was so much confidence and trust on that stage. Tim and I share a lot of the same aesthetics; we have a lot of vamps and grooves in common. Craig is a walking encyclopedia of music; he's always telling my son Peter about some underground metal band to check out. Gerald's from Detroit, so he's versed in Motown, bop and free improvisation. They're all very creative, but that creativity is rooted in tradition and composition.”

Formanek was so inspired after that gig that he wanted to record the band. He hadn't released a CD since his unaccompanied bass project from 1998, Am I Bothering You? , and he hadn't released a band project since 1997's Nature of the Beast with Berne, Dave Douglas and others. He had made a conscious decision to not do a recording project while settled in at Peabody, but by 2008 he felt he had a good handle on the teaching gig and started looking around for opportunities. Because his teaching job allowed him to stay in one place for most of the year without constant touring, he found that he was composing a lot more music than he ever had and he wanted to document it with the New York quartet. He didn't have a label deal but he did have a small professional-development grant from Peabody, so he took the group into a studio in rural New Jersey in June 2009. Berne's wife, Sara, works in the ECM office and she sent a copy of the session to the label's founder, Manfred Eicher. Eicher responded quickly and said he wanted to release the record after he remixed it. Formanek, astounded by this unexpected break, eagerly joined Eicher in the studio that fall. “Manfred has very specific ideas about sound,” Formanek reports. “He was hearing everything and created space in the sound that allowed the music to breathe more, to be more open and inviting.”

Sitting on a barstool in the kitchen of his Towson home, Formanek wears a Shank's Strings T-shirt, jean shorts and silver-framed glasses. He looks out the kitchen window, past his leafy backyard and toward “the road” that he will hit once again this fall to support the new album. He knows it will be a tricky juggling act to balance a tour with his classroom obligations, but he also knows that the two are inextricably entangled. He can't prepare his students for the life of the touring musician if he doesn't keep one foot in that life himself. At the same time, he can't keep up his recent outpouring of compositions if he doesn't have the stability of the teaching gig. “I was brought to Peabody not for my longstanding contributions to jazz education,” he points out, “but because of my involvement with recording and live performance and my ability to articulate the nuts and bolts of that. So playing out keeps me on my game. I teach as much by example as by what I say.”

Adam Graham / Detroit News Pop Music Writer

Serious doubt was cast on the future of the Deftones after bassist Chi Cheng was injured in a car accident in 2008.

But, in an pretty odd album way, it whipped the group back into shape.

The hard rock band, which rose out of Sacramento, Calif., in the mid-1990s, had grown accustomed to a certain way of doing things. The band members took their time recording albums, and let the ferocity of their early live shows fall by the wayside. Lead singer Chino Moreno packed on pounds and got winded during concerts.

“We got a little lazy,” says Moreno, on the phone last month while traveling to a show in Orlando, Fla.

Not anymore, however. Deftones, which plays at DTE Energy Music Theatre on Friday along with Alice in Chains and Mastodon, is back to playing like a new band; and May's “Diamond Eyes” is its most consistent record since 2000′s “White Pony.” Moreno, meanwhile, has shed his extra pounds and is back down to his fighting weight.

Cheng had been tossed from his vehicle after a collision with another car and still hasn't regained his mobility or ability to speak. Following the accident, Moreno started running every day.

“I feel pretty strong right now,” says Moreno, 37. “When something like that happens, you kind of start evaluating life in general, how you're living your life and what you're doing. And I was just kind of like, I need to get myself together.”

Moreno says he also cut back on partying and things he says he felt he was “supposed to do” because he was in a band. As a result, he's in a much better place both physically and mentally.

“My health has gotten way better. My singing, my voice is better. I'm not winded anymore (on stage),” he says. “I feel great. I sleep great. I wake up feeling good. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner, but I feel much better. This is probably the healthiest I've been in 10, 15 years, for sure.”

The new energy carries over to the rest of the band.

Since “White Pony,” Deftones had gotten used to working at a leisurely pace, working on ideas in the studio for weeks, sometimes months after they were first floated.

After Cheng's accident, the band's attitude toward recording changed. As creativity flowed, the pace of the band's work quickened. Band members would spend eight hours in the studio and finish the day with tangible results. “There wasn't much meandering going on,” Moreno says.

The resulting album, “Diamond Eyes,” is surprising not only for the strength of the material but also for its forceful tone.

“I think a lot of people expected we would make this very morose, sad record or whatever, and while I think there are a lot of different emotions on the record, there's an aggressive sound to it,” Moreno says. “It's not like, 'Feel sorry for us.' Instead we wanted to feel really strong and confident with this batch of songs.”

Now, Moreno says the group has rediscovered its fire and is working to come back not only from Cheng's setback but from years of not playing up to its potential. (Sergio Vega took over Cheng's spot as bassist)

“We kind of feel like our foundation was shook and we had to rebuild it,” Moreno says. “Right now I feel like we're trying to prove ourselves as a new band with our records, with our performances, with everything. We're taking it day by day, but we still have people that are coming to the shows and are interested, and we ourselves are interested and still having fun doing it. So that's a good thing.”

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Edgar Winter sounded as fired-up as a kid playing his first gig.

“It means the world to me to do what I love most,” said the excitable and voluble Winter. “It's great getting to see everybody out there rockin'. Hoo-oo-oo-oo-oo. So, get ready to rock.”

At Winter's age – the blues-rock singer and multi-instrumentalist turns 63 in December – most people are content with a rocking chair.

Winter has been rocking out since he and brother Johnny were growing up in Beaumont, Texas.

He's now 45 years into a career that began at Woodstock, and brings the five-man Edgar Winter Group to the Lodi Grape Festival on Saturday.

Just mention a topic – his pioneering use of synthesizers, embracing Scientology, his affection for science fiction, music's transcendent spirituality – and Winter's off and rolling in a soft Texas accent.

“'I've always thought of music as a spiritual thing,” said Winter, a self-styled “New York Texan living in Beverly Hills.” “It really does have the ability, as all art forms do, to make us realize we are, in essence, one people. One world.

“I love Scientology, but also Christianity and Buddhism. They're all attached to the same source. Religion should be inclusive rather than divisive. That's what music does.”

Heavily influenced by sacred music, Winter was attracted to L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology and “Mission Earth,” his 1986 album, included lyrics by Hubbard. Winter is “really not as avid now.”

“Religion is a personal thing,” said Winter, whose parents were Baptist and Episcopalian. “It's not something I really talk about. Life is a spiritual quest for all spiritual beings.”

Still best-known for classic-rock trademarks “Frankenstein” (No. 1, 1973) and “Free Ride” (1973), Winter started playing ukulele at 6 and teamed with Johnny in a duo styled after the Everly Brothers.

“I thought everybody played music,” said Edgar. “Like everybody learns to read, write, add and subtract. Then I realized it was something special.”

He and Johnny were weaned in a fertile, diverse musical culture on the Southern bar circuit until Edgar graduated from Beaumont High School. Then they moved to New York, where his brother played a pivotal role in Edgar's awakening.

“Jazz and classical music was very personal,” Winter said of early inspirations that were matched by the eclectic Ray Charles. “I was more introverted. It was my own private escape world. I never really took it (blues-rock) seriously. It was something that was fun.”

Edgar was playing keyboards in Johnny's band at Woodstock – the 1969 rock festival in upstate New York – when he had a musical and spiritual epiphany.

“It literally changed my life,” Edgar said. “It made me really see music in a completely different light. I'll never forget looking out on an endless sea of humanity united in such a unique way.

“I thought, 'Wow, music really has the power to bridge all these boundaries. It can be a positive force and change the world for the better.' “

Except for the drugs. Winter, like his brother, had to clean up after descending into substance abuse in the '60s and '70s.

“Everybody I knew was pretty much into drugs,” said Winter, who moved from New York to California in 1990 to “change and start over again. Now, just about everybody I know has gone through that and come out the other side. Or they're dead.”

Winter's Woodstock experience led to Poor White Trash – “a good band name, especially with me in it,” said Edgar, who is albino like Johnny – and the “quintessential all-American” Edgar Winter Group in 1972.

In its first four years, that band included singer-songwriter Dan Hartman (1950-94), who co-wrote “Free Ride”; guitarist Ronnie Montrose, a San Francisco native, now 62; and guitarist-producer Rick Derringer, 63, best-known for the McCoys “Hang on Sloopy” (No. 1, 1965).

Always tuned into his formative favorites – his parents played instruments and he began on piano and organ – Winter blazed an unfamiliar trail.

In 1973, he spotted some pretty odd album gizmos at a New York music store. Synthesizer keyboards.

“Hey, the guitarist got to have all the fun,” Winter said of those adaptable Moog and ARP devices. “I wanted to get out front and boogie. It was such a simple idea. No one had thought of it. I'll never forget the first night I played one. It was one of those real rock 'n' roll moments. The crowd just went crazy.”

Winter, while “variously acclaimed and accused of ushering in the era of synthesizers,” wasn't as wild about some of the feedback.

“I did get a lot of negativity,” said Winter, who now plays 76-key KORG and Roland models. “The synthesizer was thought to have dehumanized music to an extent. My whole approach, though, was to use it to create never-before-heard sounds. Using it experimentally really was my whole interest.

“It's one of the most human instruments ever invented because of its flexibility. The only boundary is what the human imagination can think of. It's like computers: 'Garbage in, garbage out.' “

Not surprisingly, Winter is totally tuned in to the Internet, which has provided expressive vistas beyond “chorus, verse, bridge/chorus, verse, bridge and everything has to rhyme.”

Now, after 19 albums, he's writing “fantasy science-fiction” short stories with a “classical” soundtrack. Also, a “musical-comedy” stage show based on “Frankenstein.”

He still performs occasionally with Derringer and Johnny, 66, who lives in Connecticut. He'll be in Johnny's band “for the first time in 40 years” during an eight-day Blues Cruise in October.

“He's my all-time musical hero,” Edgar said. “If it hadn't been for him, I might have been a jazz guy or a classical person. I might have gone in an entirely different direction.”

After living for 20 years in New York, he did that in 1990. Dominique, his wife of 31 years, read Carlos Castaneda's “The Power of Silence” and declared, “We have to move West.”

His shows encompass Winter's career soundtrack – from vintage blues (“Tobacco Road”) to the synth-propelled “Frankenstein” (“a heavy precursor of heavy metal and jazz infusion, too”), 2008′s “Rebel Road” CD and lots of jamming.

“My first priority in the spirit of jamming and improvising is we wanna have some fun,” Winter said. “That's why I still love to play every bit as much as I did starting out.”

Contact reporter Tony Sauro at (209) 546-8267 or tsauro@recordnet.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lensblog.

Bruce Springsteen hasn't played in Cincinnati since 2008,
but various iterations of him promise to keep the local concert and
record scene busy this fall.

There are at least three major acts coming to town that —
in the style and substance of their material — have been pronouncedly
influenced by The Boss. The first, Gaslight Anthem (from Springsteen's
home state of New Jersey), arrives at Bogart's Sept. 22 in support of
its latest album, American Slang .

That's followed Oct. 2 by The Hold Steady, fronted by
Craig Finn, which plays Newport's Southgate House on the strength of
its latest album, Heaven Is Anywhere .

And, on Nov. 1, one of the most successful and
longest-lived of the “next Springsteens,” John Mellencamp, arrives at
Music Hall with his rustic, mono-recorded new record, No Better Than This . 它的
the nation's top-selling Americana album and represents the 58-year-old
Indiana native's ongoing interest — just like Springsteen's — in Rock's
origins in populist, humanist, scruffy Folk music.

Meanwhile, Columbia Records is preparing for the Nov. 16 release of Springsteen's six-disc (three audio, three video) The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story package, which will inevitably posit that 1978 album as his greatest achievement.

All three of the recent records by Gaslight Anthem, The
Hold Steady and Mellencamp are likely to turn up on end-of-the-year
“best of” lists. Gaslight Anthem's American Slang , the
quartet's third album, is a particularly incendiary, passionate mixture
of extroverted, inspiring Rock & Roll energy and poetically
circumspect lyrics.

Like Springsteen, the band has a knack for ruing and
celebrating the past simultaneously. In its attention to ringing,
chiming melody and big anthemic moments, the album is definitely
Springsteen-inspired — the group's singer/lyricist, Brian Fallon, has
even shared the stage with The Boss. But it's also harder and faster
than Springsteen's Rock, owing a lot to The Clash and the post-Punk
American Rock bands inspired by The Clash, like Social Distortion,
Green Day and Rancid. On the other hand, the song “The Diamond Church
Street Choir” has that sinewy, finger-popping groove of Springsteen's
“The E Street Shuffle” or “The Fever.”

It isn't unusual for Rock & Roll's great originators
to have spawned countless derivative acts. We're still getting singers
and bands influenced by Elvis, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Stones, Dylan,
Velvet Underground, Aretha Franklin and the aforementioned Clash.

But Springsteen is different in that he isn't so much an
originator as a derivative act himself. So it's pretty odd album that he's been so
influential since his rise to stardom in the mid-1970s. In fact, some
consider his original rise a reactionary movement — a Jersey Shore
rejection of the arty glam/glitter music of British artists like Bowie
and Roxy Music and of the confrontationally minimalist, anti-superstar
ethos of Punk. As you probably know from watching a certain MTV
program, the Jersey Shore can be a backward-looking place.

But sometimes there is genius in recombining and
reinterpreting what's come before. And Springsteen did that, coming
along at the exact time — his first album, Greetings From Asbury Park NJ , was released in early 1973 — that a hierarchal canon was being formed about Rock's then-20-year history.

And almost uncannily — as if he was a Rolling Stone critic moonlighting as a Rock musician — Springsteen and his band encapsulated all the high points. As the All Music Guide to Rock
puts it, “critics hailed him as the savior of Rock & Roll, the
single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s Rock and
the thoughtfulness of '60s Rock, molded into a '70s style.” He also
communicated a sense of honesty, whatever that term means in recorded
music, over artifice.

The go-for-broke storytelling ambitions of Springsteen's
early and most Dylanesque-wordy Rock songs like “It's Hard to Be a
Saint in the City” — along with the Ben E. King-like urban romanticism
of ballads like “4 ^th of July Asbury Park (Sandy)” — are an
inspiration for the Brooklyn-based Hold Steady. And on its new album,
the band might actually have come up with the best Springsteenish take
on Rock-as-redemption ever, “We Can Get Together” (“Heaven is
whenever/We can get together/Lock your bedroom door/And listen to your
records”).

Besides inspiring other musicians, Springsteen also
inspired a pretty good movie about Rock. And it featured one of the
best — but now thoroughly forgotten — Springsteen-influenced acts, John
Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

The film, 1983's Eddie and the Cruisers, had a
tantalizingly “meta” scenario. It wondered what fate would have awaited
a Top 40 Rock/Soul band if its leader had the music-making ambitions —
but not the record-making freedom — of an Album Rock-era star like
Springsteen. If that leader wanted to make fun party music and explore
life “on the dark side” — to quote the title of the movie's hit song,
itself inspired by “Darkness at the Edge of Town” — could he succeed?

In a way, that's still a pertinent question with bands
like Gaslight Anthem and The Hold Steady (as well as other
Springsteen-influenced modern rockers from The Arcade Fire to The
Killers). They have the freedom to make the record they want, but can
they ever become as big as The Boss or even Mellencamp? It's a question
that only time can answer.

Bruce Springsteen hasn't played in Cincinnati since 2008,
but various iterations of him promise to keep the local concert and
record scene busy this fall.

There are at least three major acts coming to town that —
in the style and substance of their material — have been pronouncedly
influenced by The Boss. The first, Gaslight Anthem (from Springsteen's
home state of New Jersey), arrives at Bogart's Sept. 22 in support of
its latest album, American Slang .

That's followed Oct. 2 by The Hold Steady, fronted by
Craig Finn, which plays Newport's Southgate House on the strength of
its latest album, Heaven Is Anywhere .

And, on Nov. 1, one of the most successful and
longest-lived of the “next Springsteens,” John Mellencamp, arrives at
Music Hall with his rustic, mono-recorded new record, No Better Than This . 它的
the nation's top-selling Americana album and represents the 58-year-old
Indiana native's ongoing interest — just like Springsteen's — in Rock's
origins in populist, humanist, scruffy Folk music.

Meanwhile, Columbia Records is preparing for the Nov. 16 release of Springsteen's six-disc (three audio, three video) The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story package, which will inevitably posit that 1978 album as his greatest achievement.

All three of the recent records by Gaslight Anthem, The
Hold Steady and Mellencamp are likely to turn up on end-of-the-year
“best of” lists. Gaslight Anthem's American Slang , the
quartet's third album, is a particularly incendiary, passionate mixture
of extroverted, inspiring Rock & Roll energy and poetically
circumspect lyrics.

Like Springsteen, the band has a knack for ruing and
celebrating the past simultaneously. In its attention to ringing,
chiming melody and big anthemic moments, the album is definitely
Springsteen-inspired — the group's singer/lyricist, Brian Fallon, has
even shared the stage with The Boss. But it's also harder and faster
than Springsteen's Rock, owing a lot to The Clash and the post-Punk
American Rock bands inspired by The Clash, like Social Distortion,
Green Day and Rancid. On the other hand, the song “The Diamond Church
Street Choir” has that sinewy, finger-popping groove of Springsteen's
“The E Street Shuffle” or “The Fever.”

It isn't unusual for Rock & Roll's great originators
to have spawned countless derivative acts. We're still getting singers
and bands influenced by Elvis, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Stones, Dylan,
Velvet Underground, Aretha Franklin and the aforementioned Clash.

But Springsteen is different in that he isn't so much an
originator as a derivative act himself. So it's pretty odd album that he's been so
influential since his rise to stardom in the mid-1970s. In fact, some
consider his original rise a reactionary movement — a Jersey Shore
rejection of the arty glam/glitter music of British artists like Bowie
and Roxy Music and of the confrontationally minimalist, anti-superstar
ethos of Punk. As you probably know from watching a certain MTV
program, the Jersey Shore can be a backward-looking place.

But sometimes there is genius in recombining and
reinterpreting what's come before. And Springsteen did that, coming
along at the exact time — his first album, Greetings From Asbury Park NJ , was released in early 1973 — that a hierarchal canon was being formed about Rock's then-20-year history.

And almost uncannily — as if he was a Rolling Stone critic moonlighting as a Rock musician — Springsteen and his band encapsulated all the high points. As the All Music Guide to Rock
puts it, “critics hailed him as the savior of Rock & Roll, the
single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s Rock and
the thoughtfulness of '60s Rock, molded into a '70s style.” He also
communicated a sense of honesty, whatever that term means in recorded
music, over artifice.

The go-for-broke storytelling ambitions of Springsteen's
early and most Dylanesque-wordy Rock songs like “It's Hard to Be a
Saint in the City” — along with the Ben E. King-like urban romanticism
of ballads like “4 ^th of July Asbury Park (Sandy)” — are an
inspiration for the Brooklyn-based Hold Steady. And on its new album,
the band might actually have come up with the best Springsteenish take
on Rock-as-redemption ever, “We Can Get Together” (“Heaven is
whenever/We can get together/Lock your bedroom door/And listen to your
records”).

Besides inspiring other musicians, Springsteen also
inspired a pretty good movie about Rock. And it featured one of the
best — but now thoroughly forgotten — Springsteen-influenced acts, John
Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

The film, 1983's Eddie and the Cruisers, had a
tantalizingly “meta” scenario. It wondered what fate would have awaited
a Top 40 Rock/Soul band if its leader had the music-making ambitions —
but not the record-making freedom — of an Album Rock-era star like
Springsteen. If that leader wanted to make fun party music and explore
life “on the dark side” — to quote the title of the movie's hit song,
itself inspired by “Darkness at the Edge of Town” — could he succeed?

In a way, that's still a pertinent question with bands
like Gaslight Anthem and The Hold Steady (as well as other
Springsteen-influenced modern rockers from The Arcade Fire to The
Killers). They have the freedom to make the record they want, but can
they ever become as big as The Boss or even Mellencamp? It's a question
that only time can answer.