Bill EvansIt's the Symphony: Brass, Bows, & BeatsA few thoughts from the Jazz Mafia's Brass, Bows & Beats show at SF Yoshi's (which plays again tonight and tomorrow):
• Holy shit, that's a lot of people on stage! (an unofficial head count numbered about 30 musicians).
• B, B & B is an ambitious project; however, there were clearly more of the first two elements than the last.
• More scatting (in a jazz sense) than rapping.
• The vocal harmonies and overlapping rhymes were