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Jazz musician returns to keys
BOSTON (AP) - The slow strains
on the piano suddenly picked up into
a jazzy and unusual rendition of
“You’ve Changed.” Fingers around
the elegant room at the Oak Bar
began drumming the dark wood
tables. The heads of a couple with
gray hair and gray suits bobbed with
the music.
When Dave McKenna finished
the tune, the well-dressed crowd
cheered. Some stood, hooting and
yelling “Bravo.”
McKenna didn’t seem to notice.
His hands just started gliding across
the keyboard of the grand piano to
play the next song.
Recently, after almost 10 years
away, McKenna, who lives with his
wife on Cape Cod, returned to the
Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston for five
shows. His fans turned out in force.
Though not a household name,
McKenna is known and sought after
in music circles as an artist of rare tal
ent and style. He’s played with
Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman and
Stan Getz. He’s Tony Bennett’s
favorite piano player.
“Dave is world class, there’s no
question about it,” said pianist Ray
Santisi, who said he’s been a fan of
McKenna for years. “He’s able to do
things with the harmony that was
originally intended by the composers,
and is able to reshape it with some
outstanding harmonic twists.”
McKenna, 67, is a tall, lanky,
unassuming type. He appears slightly
embarrassed by lavish praise.
“I consider myself a song player
rather than a jazz player. I really like
playing old songs,” he said. “Some of
the songs I play are even older than'I
am.
It’s the songs that keep his fans
loyal. McKenna’s admirers say there
isn’t a song he can’t play, and music
experts credit him with keeping the
“Great American Songbook” alive.
McKenna was pianist in resi
dence at the old Plaza Bar from 1977
until 1986, playing five nights a
week.
“It’s like having Larry Bird back,
to see Dave McKenna on the parquet
floor,” said John Higgins.
He and his wife, Corrine Higgins,
came to the Copley Plaza at least
once a week during the years
McKenna played regularly there.
Since he left, they’ve seen him play
all over the country, from Rhode
Island to California.
Most of the people who filled the
room and waited in line outside the
door were hard-core McKenna fans.
They couldn’t resist coming to see
him in what they think of as his right
ful home.
He finished his first set with one
of his signature theme medleys -
songs about sweets, including
“Candy,” “Sweet Lorraine,” and
“Ain’t She Sweet?”
McKenna, who was born in
Woonsocket, R.I., said he never
intended to be a career musician.
“I sort of intended to go to college
but my marks weren’t very good,” he
said. “I just drifted into music.”
He started out playing in his home
state. By age 28, he was playing in
New York. A big attraction for him,
when he played with a band, was not
having to get up early in the morning.
Now, with the traveling he does
today, that’s changed. “You have to
get up early in the morning and you’re
just like the other people,” he said.
Ron Della Chiesa, a music critic
for WGBH radio, said McKenna’s
sound is wholly his own.
“I had never heard a piano stylist
like that,” he said. “Dave’s sound was
more like he had a built-in bass play
er. He would accompany himself with
this walking bass line. It sounded like
he had two pianos going.”
Though he’s written and recorded
a few original songs, McKenna said
the only thing he wished he’d done
was write one of the standards he
plays and add his own page to the
songbook he’s helped keep alive.
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together and practice together,” Dunn
said. “Our friendship has a lot to do
with the band, and that shows when
we’re on stage.”
Dunn said the band was happy to
be playing again and that it was look
ing forward to releasing a new EP in
March called “Monkey-like
Strength.” The EP is the band’s first
recording since its 1996 debut album
“Rascal Basket vs. The Hordes of
Venus,” and Dunn said it was a way
of reacquainting fans and prospec
tive record labels with Rascal
Basket’s sound.
“The new one coming out will be
a four-song little taste of us,” he said.
As for the rest of 1998, Dunn
said, people should look for some
innovative changes to Rascal
Basket’s heavy, yet melodic, sound.
“We’re trying about anything
right now just to keep things new and
interesting,” Dunn said. “We want to
let people know we can do a lot of
different things, but most of all, we’re
having a good time.”
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‘Titanic’ rules in box office,
‘Firestorm’ down in flames
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
“Titanic” grossed more than $20 mil
lion for a record fourth straight week
end and now appears headed to a
domestic haul of close to $300 mil
lion.
The film was expected to pass the
$200 million mark Monday night and
faces no strong competition for sev
eral weeks.
It slipped a mere 14 percent from
the previous weekend, when it
enjoyed its single best day. The epic
is also playing well in overseas mar
kets.
The only new film in national
release, Howie Long’s “Firestorm,”
was sacked in its debut, finishing a
distant seventh.
“Good Will Hunting” was popu
lar in its first weekend of wide
release, as was the political satire
“Wag the Dog.” “Tomorrow Never
Dies,” the latest in the James Bond
series, passed the $100 million
, threshold.
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continued its meteoric crash, playing
to nearly empty theaters. “Mr.
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And last, but certainly not least, a
new compilation of previously unre
leased “Love Songs” from the late
king of rock ‘n’ roll, Elvis Presley,
makes its debut.
New Releases for January 13,
1998:
Backbone - Backbone (Grateful
Dead)
Ben Folds Five - Naked Baby
Photos (Caroline)
Various Artists - Boogie Nights
Soundtrack- Volume 2 (Capitol)
David Crosby and Graham Nash -
Another Stoney Evening-Live
10/10/71 (Grateful Dead/Arista)
DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike
(London)
Fleshtones - More Than Skin
Deep (Ichiban)
Flourescein - High Contrast
Comedown (DGC)
Aretha Franklin - The Delta
Meets Detroit: Aretha’s Blues
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(Rhino)
John Lee Hooker - The Complete
’50 s Chess Recordings (MCA)
Gas Huffer - Just Beautiful Music
(Epitaph)
Various Artists - Half Baked
Soundtrack (MCA)
Mark Knopfler - Wag the Dog
Soundtrack (Mercury)
New York Undercover
Soundtrack (MCA)
New York Voices - Sing the Songs
of Paul Simon (RCA Victor)
Roy Orbison - Combo Concert
(Orbison)
Elvis Presley - Love Songs (RCA)
Rammstein - Sehnsucht (London)
Otis Redding - Love Songs
(Rhino)
Various Artists - Senseless
Soundtrack (V2)
Chris Stills -100 Year Thing
(Atlantic)
Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman -
Weir/Wasserman-Live (Grateful
Dead)
Victoria Williams - Musings of a
Creekdipper (Atlantic)
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replacement
soda for Slice
NEW YORK (AP) - Pepsi-Cola
Co. is getting into the lemon-lime
wars with a soft drink it hopes will
steal some of the fizz of Sprite and 7
Up.
Pepsi, the nation’s second-biggest
soft drink company, is calling it3 new
drink Storm and will test it early this
year in Denver. Brad Shaw, a
spokesman for Somers, N.Y.-based
Pepsi-Cola, would not say Monday
precisely when the test would begin.
Storm would effectively replace
Slice, sales of which have been flat
against Coca-Cola Co.’s Sprite and
Cadbury Schweppes PLC’s 7-Up.
Behind colas, lemon-lime bever
ages are second in soft drink sales,
accounting for 11.2 percent of the
market, said John Sicher, editor and
publisher of the trade publication
Beverage Digest.
Coca-Cola has been dominating
the market with Sprite. Sales have
been growing rapidly, fueled by an
irreverent advertising campaign
called “Obey Your Thirst” that
appeals to teens by poking fun at
commercials that suggest a soft drink
can change your life.
Beverage Digest said Sprite was
the fourth-biggest selling soft drink
brand in 1996 (after Coca-Cola
Classic, Pepsi and Diet Coke) with
5.8 percent of the soft drink market.
Figures for 1997 are not available.
“Sprite has enjoyed tremendous
success in recent years,” said Polly
Howes, spokeswoman for Atlanta
based Coca-Cola. “It’s really not a
surprise that others would want to try
to capitalize on that.”
7-Up was seventh in 1996, with a
2.4 percent market share, while the
diet versions of Sprite, 7-Up and an
assortment of store brands and small
er entries accounted for the remain
ing lemon-lime sales, Sicher said.
Some industry watchers said a
stronger lemon-lime entry would
also help Pepsi get more fountain
customers, such as restaurant chains
that often carry the whole range of
Pepsi or Coca-Cola products. Coca
Cola has long dominated that section
of the business.
There have been reports that
Pepsi may include caffeine in Storm
as a way to distinguish it from Sprite
and 7-Up, which don’t have caffeine.
Shaw declined to comment on
those reports.
