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...room, as was the case when he led both the band and audience in a recreation of traditional West African call-and-response. The band’s spontaneous transitions all seem triggered by Summers, as when he guided the band out of Herbie Hancock’s funk classic “Chameleon” into a traditional New Orleans second-line march, compelling the audience to their feet to bounce—in the absence of dancing room—along with the band...
...standout performance of the night was the band’s rendition of Dizzy Gillespie’s Afro-Cuban classic “Night In Tunisia.” Switching back and forth between Dizzy’s classic rhythm and a rhumba, the band weaved their way through all the twists of the tune, and added a few themselves. The tune ended with a spellbinding cadenza by Mayfield, his trumpet wailing and growling, with the audience goading him on. After Mayfield closed out the tune, Summers turned to the audience matter-of-factly and said...
...book about NP—and that’s a start : ) I do have one complaint—and it is a minuscule one at that—but you misspelled my name. James Dickinson is the piano player on the Stones’ classic “Wild Horses” and the father of the drummer and lead singer of the North Mississippi Allstars. I’m just a simple scribe who lives in a van down by the river. Or something like that. Thanks for mentioning my email...
...deciding match at No. 1, which featured Bajin and Ghazal taking on Rochelle Raiss and Rachel Shweky, proved to be a classic. In a strong wind both sides refused to concede defeat. Bajin and Ghazal jumped out to a small lead, but the Penn duo struck right back...
What's not to love? The Producers, a musical based on Brooks' 1968 movie, opens on Broadway next week with the kind of rapturous buzz (and $13 million in advance sales) not seen since The Lion King. Start with a presold audience, lovers of the classic comedy (the first film Brooks directed) about a schlocky Broadway producer who connives with his nervous accountant to raise money for an awful Nazi musical so they can abscond with the funds when the thing flops. Add the best-possible modern substitutes for stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder--Nathan Lane as producer...