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All three groups in this Blue Note anniversary concert were distinctly different. One was shaded with a hip hop influence, one proffered organ trio jazz-funk and one, all female, had singing as its focal point.
At a time when a number of established music venues in the Boston area have closed, Club Passim continues to thrive, thanks to the loyal grass-roots support it has enjoyed over six decades.
Robert Forster was apparently spot-on when he proclaimed that The Go-Betweens “were too good for the bloody charts.”
What if you took canonical Western works and reimagined them from an African perspective?
About the post-Reagan era, Boston Phoenix and Boston After Dark editor, Arnie Reisman, observes: “Everything went to sleep, and while we were sleeping, the Republican Party grew six more heads.”
Childsplay, the celebrated flash-band of fiddlers who have come together around the holidays for more than 30 years, is calling it quits.
This is a gem of a recording, a wonderful introduction to this often overlooked Hungarian composer.
It has been a busy month for R&B and Rap — with tantalizing singles from Danny Brown, Gang Starr, and Frank Ocean.
To hear Nat King Cole move from an anonymous member of a backing chorus to a world-class vocal soloist is well worth the time this boxed set demands.
TRIPTYCH (Eyes of One on Another) serves up a cool emotional package.
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