THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002
FOOD
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 13
No Lessons to rock Jazzhaus
I suggest this Saturday night get a group of friends together, make one of the following cash-money cocktails, and check out a quintessential component of Lawrence music, No Lessons, at the Jazzhaus, 926 Massachusetts St.
Tone, rhythm, volume, accuracy, pitch, and preciseness; when blended all together form a simplistic sound.
When the music is noticed one only can stand still and just listen.
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Christina DiGiacomo cdigiacome@kansan.com
Attention is immediately drawn into the exceptional, enticing, eclectic musical harmonization of the band No Lessons.
What makes its music — a cross between Rusted Root and Dave Matthews Band — so good is how intact and lateral this band is with one another.
"Our roots acoustic rock music is very harmony driven," Jeff Goldford lead vocal said.
"Each of us has our own unique individuality ... we just mesh together," Aaron Lerner harmonica and piano player said.
Not only do they mesh well together through creating music, their stage presence for a local band is too inconceivable and unimaginable for just being a local
band.
They can entertain an audience, get most of the audience grooving to the music or the audience can enjoy the eye candy tactic.
The group mainly focuses on its original music although they do play cover songs, Lerner stresses they are not a cover band.
One Track Mind is the name of the band's new Reaction Records-produced CD which is set to release Oct. 25 at Abe and Jake's, 8 E. Sixth St.
No Lessons plays with opening act and Oklahoma's hottest band, King James Verzion at 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Jazzhaus.
Note: Drinks are for those 21 years and older. Drink responsibly.
LESSONS IN MIXING DRINKS LONG ISLAND ICED TEA
4 parts vodka (2 oz.)
2 parts gin (1 oz.)
2 parts white rum (1 oz.)
1 part white crème de menthe (1/2 oz.)
4 parts fresh lemon juice
Sugar (1 tsp.)
Lime wedge
Cola
Combine all ingredients, except lime and cola, in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice. Shake well and strain into chilled collins glass over ice cubes. Fill with cola and stir. Garnish with lime wedge.
COSMOPOLITAN
4 parts vodka (2 oz.)
2 parts triple sec (1 oz.)
2 parts cranberry juice (1 oz.)
1 part fresh lime juice (1/2 oz.)
Combine ingredients with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake well. Pour into chilled cocktail glass.
WHITERUSSIAN
4 parts vodka (2 oz.)
2 parts coffee liqueur (1 oz.)
2 parts half-and-half (1 oz.)
Combine ingredients with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake well and pour into chilled old-fashioned glass.
Recipes adapted from, The New York Bartender's Guide, by Sally Ann Berk.