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Bands : Authors

Speaking of the Rochester Jazz fest, one of 2005's performers, The Bad Plus, has a blog. It must be a feature of life on tour that the band members have plenty of time to sit around composing lists such as this excellent compilation comparing bands to novelists.

Some of these are stretches, but most are right on the money, e.g.:

Björk--Italo Calvino
Hall and Oates--Nick Hornby (ouch!)
Radiohead--Franz Kafka
Tom Waits--Charles Bukowski
U2--C.S.Lewis (?)

The Bad Plus ranks high on my list of favorite bands and I've just gained some new-found respect for them. Turns out that they are recommending that you NOT purchase their most recent cd release until they post a protocol for disabling the copy protection software embedded by their recording label, Sony.