SOUND CHECK.PATTI Pat·ti , Adelina 1843-1919. Spanish-born Italian opera singer who was the most celebrated coloratura soprano of the 19th century. SCIALFA: ``23rd Street Lullaby'' (Columbia) - Three stars Scialfa's second solo outing in a dozen years is soaked in the atmosphere that produced hubby Bruce Springsteen's best work - rain-slicked avenues, lost romance and sepia-toned nostalgia. The disc's dozen songs are loosely connected, reflecting memories of an artistic bohemia that seems painfully innocent today. The concept works. The memorable title track, along with standouts ``You Can't Go Back'' and ``City Boys,'' reveal Scialfa's fine folk-tinged vocals, plus stirring ensemble work from a cast that includes the E Street Band's Nils Lofgren, session great Willie Weeks and Bruce himself on a couple of cuts. Good stuff. In stores Tuesday. - Fred Shuster JAY FARRAR: ``Stone, Steel & Bright Lights'' (Transmit/Artemis) - Three stars A founding member of the pioneering alt-country outfits Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, guitarist/drone poet Farrar has taken his sweet time to get this live album out. More jam-and-nasal-whine spectacular than traditional twangfest, the set still offers a hypnotic stew of jangling jan·gle v. jan·gled, jan·gling, jan·gles v.intr. To make a harsh metallic sound: The spurs jangled noisily. v.tr. 1. crunch and semi-depressed, pseudo-profound, California-centric maunderings. The disc covers originals (``Doesn't Have to Be This Way,'' ``Six-String Belief''), tunes from Farrar's three solo efforts and a couple of unexpected covers (Syd Barrett's ``Lucifer Sam,'' Neil Young's ``Like a Hurricane''). Comes with DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. footage from a San Francisco club date. - Bob Strauss SOUNDTRACK: ``Dirty Harry'' (Aleph 1. (language) ALEPH - A Language Encouraging Program Hierarchy. 2. (tool) ALEPH - A system for formal semantics written by Peter Henderson ca. 1970. [CACM 15(11):967-973 (Nov 1972)]. 3. ) - Three and one half stars Film composer Lalo Schifrin's eerie, dissonant dis·so·nant adj. 1. Harsh and inharmonious in sound; discordant. 2. Being at variance; disagreeing. 3. Music Constituting or producing a dissonance. jazz-funk score for Don Siegel's classic 1971 cop flick ranks with his best work, right up there with ``Cool Hand Luke's'' psychedelic bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. jazz. For the first time, Schifrin's complete score is available, following Clint Eastwood's Inspector Callahan through San Francisco's red-light district as he hunts wild-eyed serial killer serial killer Forensic psychiatry A person who commits serial murders Prototypic SK White ♂ age 30; 97% are ♂; 80% are sociopaths. See Dahmer, Depraved heart murder, Ice Man. Cf Megan's law, Son of Sam law. Scorpio. The tense, propulsive music set the template for the score to every cop movie to follow. Do you feel lucky, punk? Listeners will answer in the affirmative. - Glenn Whipp CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) no caption (PATTI SCIALFA) (2 -- 4) no caption (CD covers) |
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