The keyboardist John Medeski has always brought the church into the soul-jazz he creates in the popular group Medeski, Martin and Wood, and on Tuesday he was fierce, slapping and teasing the keys on his Hammond organ.
The keyboard, if that's what you call it, worked well for me — I am a slap-dash typist, and the keys knew when they were the ones I meant to hit more often than I deserved.
Now and then, too, customers walked in off the street, a stream of curious shoppers who simply wanted to touch the machines, tapping the keys and slapping back the carriage when the bell rang out, leaving a couple of sentences behind.
He plays slap-tongue and split-tone notes, and clicks the keys to make tuned rhythm.
At one point, he even reached over, his face black with impatience, and slapped her hands that were still trying to make sense of the keys.
His reference to alt, control, delete -- the keys users strike to try to reanimate a personal computer, running Windows, that has crashed -- was a slap at Microsoft.
The DA slapped Keys with six extra felony charges of aggravated harassment by a prisoner, which, together, carry a theoretical maximum sentence of 49 years.
In 2012, as the international community started to slap key players in the Assad regime with economic sanctions, the US Treasury Department discovered Drex Technologies, a limited liability company (LLC) with an address in the British Virgin Islands.
Derek Jeter had the key hit, slapping a single to right field with the bases loaded and nobody out in the fifth inning as the Yankees went 2 for 5 with runners in scoring position in the inning.
