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Gary Burton Quarter--Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitar; Matt Garrison, bass; and Marty Richard, drum. Charles Hotel, One Bennett St., Cambridge. Thursday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m., $9. Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $12. Saturday...
Joshua Redman Quartet--a 1991 Harvard graduate, Redman just completed his first album with Red Rodney, Kenny Barron and Grady Tate. Harvard Professor Graeme Boone might say his music is "hot." He will perform with Johnny King, piano; Paul LaDuka, bass; and Clarence Penn, drums. Charles Hotel, One Bennett St., Cambridge. Tuesday...
Artifacts inside the bandies layer include the biggest tuba in the world, a bass drum named Bertha, as well as pictures of past bands and a number of "borrowed" sings...
...first act. Such exotic interludes were a vogue in the 18th century, and Corigliano and Hoffman mock the form with glee. The setting is an outlandish reception at the Turkish embassy, presided over by a 12-ft. foam pasha from whose mail-slot mouth a bass voice emerges. As the sultry singer Samira, mezzo Marilyn Horne reclines lasciviously on a plushy couch and tosses off a florid cavatina and cabaletta to words from an Arabic phrase book ("I am in a valley, and you are in a valley . . ."). It's diverting and spectacular in a rather sweet, good-humored...
...even then, a sure jazz spirit and a first-rate singer. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Ala., in 1919, he had moved with his clergyman father and family to Chicago in 1923 and started to play professionally while he was still a teenager. Guitarist Oscar Moore and bass player Wesley Prince joined him in 1937 -- a club owner had suggested to Cole that he form a trio -- and "for seven years," as the front man himself later remembered, "we knocked ourselves out." Cole had begun to sing, he later recalled, "to break the monotony," and by the time they...