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...president and the board of trustees of Bloomfield College face charges in New Jersey's Superior Court of conspiring "to arbitrarily, unreasonably, and unlawfully breach the contract" between the college and its faculty...
...wake of the June elimination of tenure at the college, and the dismissal of 13 faculty members, 11 of whom had tenure, the Bloomfield chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), has filed a civil suit which claims that the college's reasons for the removal of the tenure system are invalid...
...that time, Butterfield had surrounded himself with brilliant musicians in the form of guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield and organist Mark Naftalin. The result of which was a modern band that ventured into the confines of jazz and swing while still maintaining its identity in the blues. In the fall of 1971, right at the time when he seemed close to achieving the synthesis of jazz, swing, and blues that possessed him during the latter part of the group's history, Butterfield dissolved the band and departed from the musical world to drive stakes in the green pastures...
...piece by Nina Simone and Eric von Schmidt. Enclosed within the album are biographies of each of the five members of the band printed on the flip side of a giant harmonica blow-up. In his personal biography, Butterfield contends that when he played with Michael Bloomfield, the two of them had a magic that they could reach. Real magic! That's what Butterfield is always looking for. Bluesophiles need not look any further for the magic than Better Days...
...band, unfortunately, doesn't have Bloomfield or Bishop, and that's the origin of its many problems. Butterfield has essentially teamed with an old folkie named Geoff Muldaur and they are sharing the band. My first impulse on hearing Muldaur sing was that he was in the band because he had bought all the equipment, or because he had something on Butterfield. Whatever Muldaur can do, he cannot sing blues. He sings with a false casualness that does not disguise the weakness of his voice, which begins to sound like a pubescent thirteen year old's. He is devoid...