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“Time Flies” offers approximately two hours of outstanding jazz, created by true masters with no other agenda than to play their asses off with the tape rolling.
Riddles are abound when Les Claypool comes to town.
WasFest is a very welcome addition to Boston’s arts landscape, invaluable because it invites artists to push themselves forward while they acknowledge their still powerful influences.
Bass-wielding provocateur Les Claypool is an expert at warping the seemingly conventional into carnivalesque oddity.
Both of these documentaries offer gratifying viewing for any curious roots music fan.
“Everyone involved was committed to doing something different and eclectic,” WasFest curator Don Was said. “It’s a mixed bag, and that’s what we wanted.”
Given the overwhelmingly loud and appreciative response from the sold-out crowd, which hung on every note of Leslie Odom, Jr.’s diverse and stirring set list, he’s unlikely to forget Groton anytime soon.
At New Hampshire’s just-christened Nashua Center for the Arts, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Pat Metheny shared a wily sidelong glance at his own broad compositional and improvisational history.
So why am I going to write about the Nuggets concert for a New England outlet? Because, totally surprising to me, there was a lot of Boston in the show.
The music of the Duke Robillard Band may go back a long way, but there was nothing retro about the bittersweet, funky, lowdown sounds that rocked Jimmy’s.
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